Getting Friends to Answer Your WhatsApp Quiz: What Our Data Shows

FriendQuiz Team | 20 October 2026

You made a quiz, sent the link, and now you keep checking your results page. Our numbers show that answers are spread very unevenly. Between 2026-07-30 and 2026-10-19, people created 37,279 quizzes on FriendQuiz. Only 2,168 of them (5.8%) received 10 or more friend results, but together they collected 35,649 results. That is 34.9% of all 102,072 friend results. Most quizzes end up with fewer than five friend results. Below we cover what the data shows, what it cannot show, and how to share your link on WhatsApp so more friends actually play.

A small group of quizzes gets most of the answers

Here is how concentrated it is:

• 10 or more friend results: 2,168 quizzes, or 5.8% of all quizzes. They collected 34.9% of all friend results.
• 5 or more friend results: 18.7% of quizzes. They collected 65.3% of all results.

Put the other way round, most quizzes get fewer than five friend results. The bulk of all answers goes to a fairly small slice of quizzes.

Our data cannot tell us why. One possible reason is reach. A link posted where lots of friends see it probably gets opened more often than a link sent once and then forgotten. We did not measure this, but it is the idea behind the sharing tips further down.

Last week we looked at the questions friends found hardest, their favourite answers and how many quizzes got no answers at all. You can read all of that in our data article on quiz questions and answers.

The question changed most often: “Which city was I born in?”

To create a quiz, you type your name and get 10 suggested questions about yourself. Each question comes with four answer options already filled in. You can keep any question or rewrite it, and you can change the options too. You have to mark the correct answer for every question.

For every suggested question, most quizzes keep it word for word. One question gets replaced or rewritten more often than any other:

Most quizzes (81.5%) still keep the birth city question word for word, so it is not unpopular. It is simply the suggestion that gets replaced or rewritten most often.

It is worth asking yourself whether your friends could actually answer it. A childhood friend probably knows where you were born. Someone you met at college or work may have no idea. If most of your friends would only be guessing, swap the question for one they have a real chance with.

Sunday is the busiest day for making quizzes

Here is the share of quizzes created on each day of the week:

• Sunday: 19.0%
• Saturday: 15.9%
• Monday: 14.3%
• Friday: 14.3%
• Thursday: 13.0%
• Wednesday: 12.3%
• Tuesday: 11.3%

These days are based on the server date in UTC. Depending on your time zone, a quiz made late at night or early in the morning may be counted on a different day.

Keep in mind what this does and does not show. It tells us when quizzes are made, not when friends answer them. It also does not show that a quiz made on a Sunday gets more answers. Make yours whenever suits you.

Sharing your link on WhatsApp: status, groups and personal messages

When your quiz is ready, the site gives you a link to share. Your friends do not need an app. They open the link, answer the 10 questions and see their score out of 10. The tips below are practical habits, not results from our data. They are all about giving your link more chances to be seen.

• Status: Add one short line instead of posting the bare link. Something like “How well do you really know me? 10 questions” gives people a reason to tap.
• Group chats: Pick groups where people actually know you, such as your class, your family or your close friends. Mention that it is quick. Once someone shares their score in the chat, others may want to try too.
• Personal messages: Send the link directly to the friends whose answers you care about most. A personal message feels like an invitation, not a broadcast.
• One reminder is enough: If a friend said “later”, a single friendly nudge is fine. More than that can start to feel like pressure.

Check your results page

Your page lists the scores of the friends who have answered. Have a look a little while after you share. A short list may simply mean the link has not reached many people yet. It does not necessarily mean anything is wrong with your quiz. That is a good moment to post it somewhere new or message a few people directly.

How to use this when you make your own quiz

1. Go through each suggested question and ask: could most of my friends answer this? If not, rewrite it. The birth city question is the suggestion most often replaced or rewritten.
2. Check the four options as well. Wrong answers should sound believable, and the correct one should be clearly right once someone knows you. Then mark it.
3. Our data cannot show why some quizzes get more answers, but sharing in a few places gives your link more chances to be seen: your status, one or two groups and some personal messages.
4. Add a short, friendly line with the link so people know what it is.
5. Check your results page later, and send a personal message to anyone you especially want to hear from.

Ready to try? Create your own quiz here. It is free and no app is needed. For a step-by-step walk-through, see our guide on how to create a friendship quiz.

About these numbers

The data covers quizzes created between 2026-07-30 and 2026-10-19, taken from a database snapshot at 2026-10-19 21:00:47 UTC. We counted 37,279 quizzes and 102,072 friend results. One friend result means one friend answering one quiz. The day-of-week figures use the server date in UTC. We used only aggregate counts, with no names or personal fields.

These are descriptive counts from the site’s own database, not an experiment. They cannot show why some quizzes get more answers than others. Results are counted per quiz, not per person, so a friend who answers two different quizzes is counted twice. The sharing tips above are our practical suggestions and have not been tested in this data.