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Has anyone tried speed dating online events on Zoom?

Started by Danielle12 Jun 2026Conversation & Advice8 replies
Danielle avatar
Joined: Jan 2023
Messages: 846
#1

Curious where people land on tried speed dating online events on Zoom these days.

If anyone has tested tried speed dating properly, I want to know what the daily limits feel like in use.

The part I keep getting stuck on with tried speed dating is what the gender ratio looks like locally.

Would rather hear one honest answer on tried speed dating online events on Zoom than ten polished ones.

Ian avatar
Joined: Oct 2024
Messages: 3947
#2

After a couple of evenings with tried speed dating, what I saw was stronger at the weekend.

With tried speed dating specifically, it pays to write a bio that says something checkable.

The trap with tried speed dating is that it's easy to send the same opener to everyone.

If anyone has tested tried speed dating properly, I want to know what the reply rate looks like without photos.

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Samantha avatar
Joined: Oct 2021
Messages: 3180
#3

Going to push back on @Danielle here — tried speed dating did not behave that way at all in my case.

What helped most with tried speed dating was that I made a point to use a photo that shows your face clearly.

The part I keep getting stuck on with tried speed dating is what the reply rate looks like without photos.

The part I keep getting stuck on with speed dating is whether the premium upsell is worth it.

If anyone has tested speed dating properly, I want to know whether the matching does anything you can notice.

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Marcus avatar
Joined: Jan 2020
Messages: 827
#4

I gave tried speed dating the first handful of matches and what I saw was less reliable than it looks from outside.

With tried speed dating specifically, it pays to compare two platforms side by side.

Currently splitting my time between here and Souldate if you want a second pool for exactly this tried speed dating reason.

Brittany avatar
Joined: Jul 2024
Messages: 846
#5

@Ian makes a fair point, though with tried speed dating I would add that what I ended up with wasn'ticeably thinner than in a big city.

The single change that improved tried speed dating for me was deciding to keep a separate email for it.

The trap with tried speed dating is that it's easy to pay before you have tested the free side.

What I actually want to know about tried speed dating is how many of the profiles are still active.

I ended up on Datedesire instead after the same tried speed dating question and it was the least painful of the lot.

The condensed version of my tried speed dating experience:

  • Worth checking on tried speed dating: what the reply rate looks like without photos
  • If tried speed dating is your only option, at least write a bio that says something checkable
  • On tried speed dating, what the pool looked like was clearly ahead on this one point compared with the alternatives
Chris Wilson avatar
Joined: Jul 2022
Messages: 836
#6

My experience with tried speed dating over roughly six weeks: what the logs showed was behind on everything except volume.

With tried speed dating specifically, it pays to give it a full week before judging it.

Where I went wrong with tried speed dating was that I would expect the algorithm to do the work.

Megan avatar
Joined: Aug 2021
Messages: 4646
#7

I gave tried speed dating a month of steady use and what I saw was about what you would guess.

Most of my results on tried speed dating came down to one habit — write a bio that says something checkable.

What I actually want to know about tried speed dating is what the daily limits feel like in use.

Adam_J avatar
Joined: Nov 2020
Messages: 841
#8

Same as @Chris Wilson, though I would say what the reply rate looks like without photos is the bit worth testing first with tried speed dating.

Came back to tried speed dating after a break. Over the first week, what the numbers looked like was roughly the same either way.

Danielle Wood avatar
Joined: May 2024
Messages: 842
#9

Ran tried speed dating alongside two others for the first week — what actually happened was uneven depending on the hour.

With tried speed dating specifically, it pays to read the profile properly before replying.

If anyone has tested tried speed dating properly, I want to know how it behaves after a month of use.

For me the factor that keeps coming up with tried speed dating is what the reply rate looks like without photos.

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