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Rate Your Coolness

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Our test is fun, free and the results will surprise you

How we do it

The Cool Gauge: Chill, Don't Be a Meme

A colorful coolness meter with categories from Not Cool to Super Cool and a CoolScore of 72.


The lighting is flickering. The audience just went home. The social vending machine is jammed, and it’s fresh out of approval pellets.


What’s left?

Most people are "cool" only because the room is doing half the work. We’re interested in the other half. The Cool Gauge isn't a fashion score or a crystal ball in a blazer. It’s a cold, structured read on behavioral signal—composure, coherence, and the kind of independence that lingers long after you’ve left the building.

It’s time to see if your signal holds when the context fails.


Did we tell you this is free? It is, free and only for a limited time.  All we ask is that you give us your feedback once you have read the report.




Discover Your Cool Now

Your Cool Score in Detail

 


This isn't a generic personality quiz. It is for entertainment only. When you run the Gauge, you aren't just getting a number; you’re getting a written report; a mirror that doesn't flatter. Just complete our form and we'll provide:

  • Your Cool Index Score: The raw gravity of your presence.
  • Tier Placement: Where you sit on the spectrum of "Context-Dependent" to "Atomic."
  • The Signal Analysis: A sharp breakdown of what strengthens or weakens your cool frequency.
  • The Strain Test: A look at where your cool holds and where it starts to lean on the furniture.

Inside the Coolometer


  • Supply the Data: You answer a series of high-friction questions.
  • The Process: We apply our model—a system built on the ruins of corporate performance.
  • The Extraction: We filter out the "corporate beige" and the fluff.
  • The Report: You receive a personal assessment that is oddly, unapologetically revealing 

Real Talk: Coolness

 

The Cool Gauge is an interpretive tool for the curious, the self-invented, and those with a healthy enough sense of humor to survive deadpan scrutiny. It is not a diagnosis. A high cool score doesn't make you a saint; a low score doesn't mean you have to go live in a cave and eat soup.

It just means we’ve measured the stability of your signal under pressure.


The methodology is human; the delivery is precise. We use AI to maintain the framework, but the rules were forged in the boiler room of real-world friction, quite possibly housed in the basement of an abandoned radio station.


When should you do this?

Got Coolness Questions?

  • Write to us: info@crankybooks.com


Stay Cool, Subscribe

 

Copyright © 2025–2026 Charles O’Neill and CrankyBooks. All rights reserved.

The companion audio “Deep Dives” on this website were created with the assistance of NotebookLM using source materials selected and provided by us. Certain images and illustrations on this website were created by the author with the assistance of AI tools. Brand Mavrick is a fictional character.


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