Established during peak 2020 boredom

The Noble Art of looking terrible.

A tradition built on sore facial muscles and nightmares from childhood.

A collage of deliberately ridiculous QUFC contest faces

Past entries

Meet the faces.

These are some of the original entries that helped turn a family joke into a fully unnecessary institution.

Nicole's before and QUFC entry comparison

Nicole

Historic QUFC entrant

Kyle's before and QUFC entry comparison

Kyle

QUFC CEO / willing participant

Ellen's before and QUFC entry comparison

Ellen

Historic QUFC entrant

See all five archived entries

Think yours is worse?

Start a QUFC Face-Off

Make any ugly face you want, capture the evidence, and challenge a friend or family member to do worse. No prompts. No assigned pose. Just facial chaos.

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Vote on real ugly faces

QUFC's automatic Ugly Score is still learning what "ugly" actually means — and it's not very good at it yet. Look at two real QUFC faces, pick the worse one. That's the whole job. No sign-up, no camera, nothing about you gets collected.

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How it began

Sibling torment became a tradition.

For years, siblings made horrifying faces at one another for no particularly good reason. One Christmas Eve.... the eldest and wisest, Nicole, turned the chaos into an actual contest: submit one face, vote for the ugliest, and immortalize the winner.

Then 2020 arrived. Quarantine created the perfect conditions for the competition to return with a website and an unnecessarily official name: The Quarantine Ugly Face Contest.

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The process

Three scientific steps.

Make the face

No props, no Photoshop. Just you, your face, and questionable muscular decisions.

Study the rubric

Realism. Creativity. Humor. Pure ugliness. Excellence requires standards.

Cast one vote

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the ugliest of them all?

Want to host one of your own?

How to Host an Ugly Face Contest

QUFC put together a guide covering simple rules, judging ideas, contest formats, prizes, and everything else you need to turn terrible facial decisions into an organized competition.

Read the Contest Guide

Turns out we did not invent this

There is a World Gurning Championship

Every September, a Cumbrian town in England holds a 759-year-old fair. One of the main events is pulling the most hideous face you can through a horse collar. One man has won it nineteen times. One woman won the women's title twenty-eight times. Somebody had his teeth taken out to get more jaw movement.

The next one is on Saturday 19 September 2026.

Read About Gurning
Wide strip of archived QUFC faces

A note about “ugly”

Ridiculous faces, not real ones...

Everyone here is voluntarily trying to make the most outrageous face possible. QUFC is about creativity, comedy, and family competition—not judging anyone's normal day-to-day appearance.

There's more in the basement

The QUFC Arcade

The old archive contains a maze game, Pac-Man, Mario Kart, Hangman, and more games to come.

Visit the Arcade

Psssssssst. One more thing... QUFC has a secret Easter egg page hiding somewhere on the site. 👀 You won’t find it in the navigation, but there is a link hidden somewhere on QUFC. Find the link, discover the secret page, and listen closely—a song will play when you arrive. If you find it, tell us what song you heard.