# Count maximum possible score for query
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-maximum-possible-score-for-query/135689
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 13, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-maximum-possible-score-for-query/135689 "2018-06-13T10:43:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@lastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lastic)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-maximum-possible-score-for-query/135689/1 "2018-06-13T10:43:14Z")
Hello.
Does it is possible to count theoretical possible score for query?
I have query with a lot of 'shoulds' with different boost for each should.
I see 2 possibilities :
- stupid : make doc which will always correspond for 100% shoulds in query and it will give me real max\_score
- elasticsearch script
I am using Elastic 5.4.
Could you help me?
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### Author:  [@cbuescher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cbuescher)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-maximum-possible-score-for-query/135689/2 "2018-06-15T13:49:27Z")
This is not easily doable in a traditional search system like the ones based on Lucene (like Elasticsearch, Solr etc...). Here are some reasons related to Lucene queries that also apply to Elasticsearch:
[https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ScoresAsPercentages](https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ScoresAsPercentages) (second part)
Also:
[http://grokbase.com/t/lucene/java-user/0859r5cys9/theoretical-maximum-score](http://grokbase.com/t/lucene/java-user/0859r5cys9/theoretical-maximum-score)
Even if possible, there is hardly any good reason to do so, but it would be interesting to learn about the motivation you are having to do this.
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### Author:  [@lastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lastic)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-maximum-possible-score-for-query/135689/3 "2018-06-15T16:57:13Z")
So. I've already made it.
My task was to find people which corresponds to some offer and get percentage of how they meet the conditions.
Person 1 has attributes :
- country : Poland
- sex : male
- age : 20
- parents : [Adam, Kate]
Person 2:
- country : Germany
- sex : female
- age : 22
- parents : [Adolf, Emma]
Person 3:
- country : Norway
- sex : male
- age : 30
- parents : [George, Hannah]
Query :
(don't look at syntax, it's changed for ORM which I use)
```
$query = ES::raw()->search([
"index" => "search_worker",
"type" => "worker",
"body" => [
"size" => intval(env("WS_SUGGESTED_LIMIT")),
"query" => [
"bool" => [
"should" => [
"term" => [
"country" => [
"value" => 'Poland',
"boost" => 1
],
"term" => [
"sex" => [
"value" => 'male',
"boost" => 1
],
"term" => [
"age" => [
"value" => 24,
"boost" => 1
],
"term" => [
"parents" => [
"value" => 'George',
"boost" => 0.5
],
"term" => [
"parents" => [
"value" => 'Kate',
"boost" => 0.5
]
];
]
]
]
]);
```
So. Total score for this search is sum all boosts in query = 4.
Person 1 has score 2.5
Person 2 has score 0.
Person 3 has score 1.5
Then simply
(Person\_score/Max\_score)\*100
P.ex. Person 1 meets the query in 62,5%.
Hope that you understand and ofc. waiting for better way to solve that, if exists.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-maximum-possible-score-for-query/135689/4 "2018-07-13T16:57:17Z")
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