The One Percent Experiment
You don't have to believe this will work.That's the experiment.
What happens if ordinary people around the world each contribute just $1 to the same experiment?
We're testing how far one simple idea can spread — through people, music, social media, creators, podcasts, radio, communities and word of mouth — and documenting what actually happens.
12 humans have joined so far. Human #000013 is still available.
Join early. Claim your permanent Human #.
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Live experiment status
12 Verified humans
6 Countries represented
#000012 Latest
#000013 Next available
Actual verified participation from real payments — not website visitors.
The experiment has a soundtrack. Original songs are another test: can music carry the idea farther than a post or an ad? Some creative work in the experiment uses AI-assisted tools. We document the process rather than pretending otherwise.
More than a payment
The experiment is bigger than $1
$1 is the participation mechanism, not the whole idea. The experiment follows what people do next and documents what actually happens.
Ten percent of every settled contribution is committed to Give-Back. The wider point is to see what spreads, what stalls, what works and what fails.
Humans
Permanent, sequential Human Numbers
Live map
Verified people at privacy-safe city level
Original music
A soundtrack testing whether songs carry the idea
Social sharing
People passing the experiment person to person
Media outreach
Creators, podcasts, radio and communities
Public record
Results, milestones, wins and misses
The globe
Real Humans. A Brighter World.
Explore where everyday people are joining The One Percent Experiment.
Drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom (or use + / −), then choose a marker to meet the humans there. Switch to City view to zoom in on individual cities.
Recent
Recently verified humans
- Participant
#000012
Anonymous Human
🇦🇷 Argentina
- Participant
#000011
Anonymous Human
Somewhere on Earth
- Participant
#000010
Anonymous Human
🇺🇸 United States
- Participant
#000009
King
🇺🇸 Corvallis, Oregon, United States
- Participant
#000008
David
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
- Participant
#000007
Anonymous Human
🇺🇸 OH, United States
- Participant
#000006
Bohdan
🇺🇦 Lyiv, Ukraine
- Participant
#000005
Hugo
🇪🇸 Badalona, Spain
- Participant
#000004
Anonymous Human
🇺🇸 Albany, Oregon, United States
- Participant
#000003
John
🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, United States
- Participant
#000002
Waffles
🇵🇭 Dumanjug, Cebu, Philippines
- Participant
#000001
Zackination
🇺🇸 Albany, OR, United States
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Documenting the journey
Latest from the Experiment Log
in progress
Experiment Log launched
From here forward, wins, misses and milestones will be documented here. A useful experiment records what stalls and fails, not only what succeeds.
Outreach
The idea has to travel
How far can one idea travel?
We are testing how the idea spreads through creators, podcasts, radio, social platforms, communities, music and word of mouth. Responses, rejections, breakthroughs and dead ends all belong in the Experiment Log.
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Become the next human
Is this real?
Yes. Every Human Number is issued only after a real payment is verified by Stripe, and every public figure comes from those verified records.
Why $1?
It is a deliberately small, common participation mechanism for testing whether one simple idea can spread.
What do I get?
A permanent Human Number that is yours alone, a shareable Human Card, and your country represented on the global experiment map.
Where does the $1 go?
10% is committed to the public Give-Back ledger; the rest runs and grows the experiment. This is a participation payment, not a donation or an investment.
Is this a charity?
No. This is voluntary participation and support, not a charity donation or an investment.
Join the experiment
- • $1 is enough
- • Secure payment by Stripe
- • No account required
- • A verified contribution receives a permanent Human Number
One verified person counts once — no matter the amount. Paying more never creates extra participants or extra Human Numbers; it only changes your supporter level.
Higher amounts are optional — they only change your supporter level.
No account needed. Your Human Number is sent here, and you can sign in later with this same email to claim and manage it.
Supporter level
Participant
You are counted. That is the whole point.
Counted as 1 verified human — always.
Stripe shows the payment methods available for your device, bank and country — including Apple Pay and Google Pay where supported.
- • Payment is processed securely by our payment processor. We never see your card details.
- • Your Human Number is permanent, sequential and issued only after the payment is verified.
- • Only a general location (city / region / country) is ever shown publicly — never an address or exact coordinates.
- • No account is required to contribute; you can sign in afterwards with the same email.
- • 10% Give-Back Commitment: 10% of successfully settled gross contributions (before processing fees) is committed to helping other people or eligible community projects. Refunded, reversed or disputed transactions are excluded. This project is not a charity and contributions are not tax-deductible, are not investments, and grant no ownership, control or profit rights.
Contributions are voluntary support — not investments, loans, ownership, sweepstakes entries, or promises of financial return.
See the refund policy, terms of contribution and Give-Back commitment.
No Human Number is generated until a payment is verified.
All supporter levels
- $1.00–$4.99Participant
- $5.00–$9.99High Five
- $10.00–$19.99Supporter
- $20.00–$49.99Booster
- $50.00–$99.99Champion
- $100.00–$249.99Ambassador
- $250.00–$499.99Builder
- $500.00–$999.99Pathfinder
- $1,000.00–$4,999.99Patron
- $5,000.00–$9,999.99Global Patron
- $10,000.00–$24,999.99Legacy Patron
- $25,000.00–$49,999.99World Patron
- $50,000.00+Humanity Patron
Real people, verified payments
12
Verified humans
6
Countries represented
$17.00
Gross amount contributed
Latest human: #000012 🇦🇷 Argentina
Yes, this is a real experiment
- • A Human Number is issued only after the payment is verified by our payment processor.
- • Every public figure comes from genuine verified records — never sample data.
- • Only a general location is ever shown publicly — never an address.
Live counters
The experiment, in numbers
Updates automatically as payments are verified.
12
Verified humans
82,000,000
Goal: 1% of humanity
0.0000146%
Percentage of humanity reached
6
Countries represented
$17.00
Gross amount contributed
Participants are counted as verified people. We never estimate participants by dividing dollars by $1. These are live figures from verified payments only.
Current chapter
Find the first 100 humans in 100 different places.
World mission board
The current challenge
Find the first 100 humans in 100 different places
11 / 100
The opening mission: 100 verified humans, each from a different city or region.
89 still needed · newest place: Argentina
Know someone there? Send them your link →Reach 100 countries
6 / 100
One verified human in each of 100 countries.
94 still needed · newest place: Argentina
Know someone there? Send them your link →Next human
#000013
This is the number that will be issued next. Numbers are never reserved in advance — the next verified payment claims it.
Claim the next number- 1Join for $1
- 2Get a permanent Human Number
- 3Appear in the global experiment
- 4Share and challenge the next human
No account needed to contribute. Your permanent Human Number is issued after your payment is verified.
What you get
Your number, your card, your place on the globe
Human Numbers
Every verified participant receives a permanent, sequential Human Number. If you become Human #000010, you stay #000010 even if the experiment eventually reaches millions.
Personalized share cards
Square and story-format cards with your number, optional nickname and location, supporter level, achievements and a referral QR code.
Geographic achievements
First Human from a city, state/province, country or continent, plus Early 10, Early 100 and Early 1,000. Never exact addresses or coordinates.
Referral links
Each Human Number carries its own referral link. Verified referrals unlock referral achievements — they never multiply your own count.
Your card
Cards are generated from your own verified record — never from sample data. Human Numbers are permanent and issued in the order payments are verified.
Human Numbers are identifiers in the experiment. They are not investments and have no promised monetary value.
How Human Cards work →
Milestones
The path
100
12.00%The first 100 humans, in 100 different places.
1,000
1.20%Proof this can travel beyond one network.
10,000
0.12%Every inhabited continent represented.
100,000
0.01%First full Give-Back Fund distribution cycle.
1 million
0.00%One in every eight thousand people alive.
1% of humanity
0.00%The experiment's stated goal.
10% of humanity
Locked. A future question, not a promise.
Transparency
Where the money goes
The 10% Give-Back Commitment
10% Give-Back Commitment: We commit 10% of successfully settled gross contributions to helping other people or eligible community projects. The 10% is calculated before payment-processing fees. Refunded, reversed, disputed, charged-back, fraudulent, or otherwise uncollected transactions are excluded. This project is not currently a charity, and contributions are not represented as tax-deductible charitable donations.
After payment-processing fees, taxes, operating expenses, refunds, and other campaign costs, the remaining portion may benefit the creator and family, including pursuing a home with land, building businesses, creating long-term investments, and operating and expanding The One Percent Experiment. Contributors do not receive ownership or control over these funds.
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