I [30m] just ran some numbers on my hinge success rate, and the result seems low. Do these numbers seem typical?

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1. Seems low, personally. I’ve been on hinge for about the same amount of time, similar amount of matches and I’ve had about fifteen first dates. I’m 40 yo though, so maybe it’s different at my age. Absolutely can’t seem to connect with anyone on the other dating apps though.

2. I did something similar for 6 months over 4 apps I believe, I got about a .003% match rate combined. Dating just sucks

3. One date per month isn’t outside the normal range. I’m sure people will show up telling you how they haven’t had a date in 6 months or a year.

   How selective are you? If you are going after women that aren’t your type and where you aren’t theirs, you are doing yourself a disservice. And I don’t just mean physical. If you want kids and they don’t, or vice versa, or they are super active and you aren’t, or vice versa, etc., you are going to make any “numbers” look artificially bad.

4. The match rate seems normal to me. Especially on Hinge. I’m 31F, conventionally attractive, with a pretty good profile if I do say so myself, and I get way more matches on Bumble than Hinge; it’s just the set-up of the app.

   Kinda low on the first dates – are you asking people out quickly? Tbh these days men aren’t asking me out as quickly as I’d like (I’m 31F) so for the most part, I’m asking them. I would rather do the asking than chat for weeks before meeting in person. But some women really want to be asked out and are more stubborn about it, so they might be waiting for you to ask. And it’s easy for things to fizzle out quickly if a first date isn’t set up.

5. How often are you asking versus them asking? I have yet to meet up with a guy and been on for a month (32f). I have done an even amount of asking and being asked. I have also been asked by a few that messaged without prompt (think 3 messages during a weekday at separate times without my reply)…I turned them down.

6. Hinge is the worst one for me by far. Between the spam/bot profiles and the basement dwellers, it’s my last app of choice.

7. 34m and I’m surprised to find anyone else is even having this much luck on Hinge. I think this app has set the record for my lowest success rate; only 1 like and zero matches after two months. I live in a capital city too, but there’s just nobody on it.

8. why are you “running numbers” ??

   unless you’re poly, you only need one person to fall in love with.

9. Not currently using Hinge but have in the past.

   From my experience, the match rate is pretty good, but turning the matches into dates rate seems kind of low. At one point, I asked Hinge to send my data, and while it didn’t give me my match percentage, of the women I was able to match with, I went on dates with about 1/6 of them. At that rate, you would have gone on 9-10 first dates instead of 3.

10. I’ve only used OkCupid but the match-to-date ratio seems really low. You’ve gotten 3 dates from 55 matches?

    My ‘likes sent’ would be quite low (closer to 20 at a guess) and even that includes some people I wasn’t too sure about. I probably got liked back by 3 and ended up going on a single first date – but that’s also impacted by the fact I was more keen on my girlfriend than the other two. I’d realistically think I could’ve asked any of the three out with success.

    If there’s work to be done in your scenario – I’d say it’s increasing the match-to-date ratio – which either means more conversion or more stringent matching.

11. IMO 55 matches in 3 months is pretty good, I never know and so wouldn’t think about what my “match rate” is. I’ve had a few short term (<6 months) things from Hinge in the past year and have generally found it to be the best app because it’s not based on swiping to see if someone has swiped on you. Hard to say what exactly is going on with the date rate, sometimes we just have runs of bad luck, I think it’s best to remember that people often have lots of things going on in their lives and it’s not personal.

12. Omg you’re such a nerd, I love it