Online dating apps appear to be the main way that people meet romantically in the digital age, yet one man has revealed that he has swiped right on Tinder over one million times, with a shocking success rate for dates.
Finding a match on apps like Tinder can be hard for some, especially as the developers begin to trial controversial preference settings that could leave out millions from searches.
While you can follow all the tips from the world's 'most swiped man' and employ 'love hacking' techniques engineered by experts, sometimes you'll just struggle to get your personality across on a single profile page, and it could cause your soulmate to pass you by.
One man in particular certainly knows that from experience, as he shared his Tinder stats where he managed to rack up over 1,000,000 right swipes in just three years.
What does 1,000,000 swipes look like on Tinder?
You'd have to live in a pretty big city and move around a fair amount in order to even encounter 1,000,000 different people on the dating app, yet one man on Reddit shared the moment where he reached the staggering milestone.
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In just 3 years and 217 days, he'd managed to swipe 1,020,488 times in total, with 1,009,556 of those being 'right swipes' which indicate that you want to match with the person that you're viewing.
That amounts to a 98.93% leaning towards right-hand swipes, giving him almost as big of a pool as possible to sources matches from - although you'd have to feel for the 10,892 that seemingly weren't deemed good enough for a potential date.
When breaking it down, his data was pooled across a period of roughly 1,313 days, which meant that he swiped either way on average 777 times per day, with around 769 of those being towards the right.
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On average women swipe around 200 times per day, whereas it's roughly 137 times for men, so his rate is nearly six times that that increases exponentially due to the fact that he's doing it day-in, day-out for nearly three years.
What was his success rate?
Now you'd imagine that having racked up over 1,000,000 right swipes that your matches would be a relatively high number, but unfortunately that's not exactly the case here.
His insights revealed that he generated just 719 matches from 1,009,556 right swipes, representing a success rate of just 0.07%. That's not even the worst part either, as 502 (70%) of those matches had no conversation whatsoever, meaning that the effective number of matches shrunk to just 217.
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From that pool of 217, he managed to earn himself just a single date, which was tragically described as having 'no spark' on the insights.
"I know I'm gonna get s*** for having a fish pic on my profile but let's be honest it wouldn't change a thing if I removed it," he wrote in a follow-up post, but comments have used this hobby of his in an aim to redirect his attention.
"If you did much fishing, you'd know to change techniques if the fish weren't biting. Or, hell, change the location," pleaded one user wishing to lend a helping hand. "Change something bro, you ain't catching fish."
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Others have suggested that he add more information about himself to his bio - which appears to only include that he'll be a designated driver as he doesn't drink - and even that he get professional pictures done to spruce things up a bit.
Some have even claimed that swiping right so much has led him to be shadow banned by Tinder, and it wouldn't be hard to imagine the app viewing him as a bot and delisting him from popping up in the searches of what could be a potential match.