Tinder's ELO score has a big impact on your dating success. Find out what is your score, how to calculate it, and how to improve your tinder elo.
Roast Founder, Dating and AI Expert
Published June 27, 2022 -Updated March 4, 2024
In the ever-changing world of dating, Tinder has become a mainstay in most young adult's lives. We swipe left or right on potential matches and hope for the best. But have you ever wanted to know what your rating is? That's where Tinder Elo comes into play.
There is a lot of mystery behind what Tinder uses to match people and organize people's "deck" of profiles to see. Tinder has been communicating around it several times, including this famous article.
This blog post will tell you all about this hidden feature that not many people know about!
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Table of Contents
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How good is your profile?
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ELO is a system invented to evaluate the relative skills of players, in a zero-sum game (think of chess, competitive video games etc).
We can think of Tinder as a match-making app, a big dating tournament. Within your swiping session, you will see a certain amount of people from a deck of profiles in front of you.
Imagine you, opening the app. Your eyes scan the screen, searching for a potential partner. You see people in front of you and can decide whether or not to accept them as your teammate or opponent.
You carefully examine each person's profile before choosing who will go on with this game session by clicking yes (swipe right) or no (swipe left).
Of course, there are certain questions that arise from both perspectives. Questions that arise for you, AND for Tinder:
This task, Tinder has at hand when people use their service: figuring out how to place these potential matches on an algorithmically generated list that will most likely give them exactly what they want (basically making sure your love life doesn't suck).
Have you ever wondered why the algorithm is working for your friends but not you?
It's hard to know what makes a dating profile attractive, and even harder to know which pictures are good or not.
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Well, it is no sure. They actually denied it several times, but the algorithm itself stays blurry. What is sure is that the question I mentioned before has to be answered one way or another.
What do we know for sure?
Don't forget that Tinder wants you to be happy on the app first, unlike what people think. If you are desperate you'll just leave the app. However, it wants you to still get a glimpse of what you could have.
In order to get you to use the app more, Tinder wants you to dream. Dream to match those perfect girls you see. It also wants you to be able to find people that might like you back, so you get matches from time to time and stay happy!
Those two conditions make it almost compulsory for Tinder to get a sense of your attractiveness*.* It may not be an exact score, but very similar in the end.
In other words, it has to rank you. This is true if you are either a man or a woman!
Now the HACK. Because I see you coming at me :
"I'm not a model, I am doomed".
Of course. I've been there.
Read this:
Your attractiveness is not only "how good-looking" you are.
It actually mostly is not.
Your beauty is for sure important while dating. But a good photo is not about that! Spending time shooting the perfect picture can really skyrocket your results alone. Then swiping will get more pleasant.
However shooting new photos without knowing what makes you personally attractive and what rules to follow for Tinder is useless, that’s why we created ROAST for you that will analyze pixel by pixel your pictures and tell you what to do to be top ELO in an instant, so make sure to check it now.
Your general attractiveness depends on your behavior. The algorithm knows it!
The better Tinder user you are, the more likely to be shown you are.
A lot of people think that Tinder ranks its users by their looks, but this is not the case.
In fact, there are three main factors in a person's attractiveness:
A lot of little details are favored by the app: how often do you use it? How long? How fast and often do you engage with your matches?
Many others can be thought of: are you a model user, using all the available features?
Have you ever wondered why the algorithm is working for your friends but not you?
It's hard to know what makes a dating profile attractive, and even harder to know which pictures are good or not.
With our AI-trained on 10,000+ pictures rated by hot girls and dating experts, we can help you to choose your best pics and stand out. Make your dating profile more attractive in just 2 minutes.
Want more dates?
ROAST can help you improve your dating profile so you can easily get more dates.
It is easy. There are 2 main things you need to do. First, show Tinder that you are a person of high value and success. Second, behave like a person of high value and model the behavior of other people on Tinder.
You can improve your profile by editing your photos and adding a bio.
How? Scientific advice exist for that making sure you will be one of the top profile on Tinder no matter who you are, ROAST being the best experts on the market for that so feel free to ask they now! This is the key to better online dating results and improving your score! Think about quality. A bad photo can really impact your ratings.
Many people don't take enough pictures of themselves, or they think it's useless to spend time on that. But this will for sure help you stand out among other men on the app! And by the way if you don’t want to spend time on that then ROAST will do it for you in only 2mn so you got no excuse anymore.
Respect yourself and behave like a high-value individual.
Your usage of the app will impact a lot your ELO. What would a high-value person do? Swipe only on the girls you REALLY like.
If you swipe right fiercely on all the girls that are shown to you, you will quickly be perceived as a non-selective person. And will therefore be shown anyone, or mainly similar users, that may not be so attractive.
Engage FAST with your Tinder matches.
Send your first message fast to the woman you matched!
It is not in Tinder's interest to let matches expire so they are motivated for both parties to keep the conversation going.
This means that if you engage with people on tinder, it will increase your ELO score. If a person doesn't interact at all with anyone on tinder, their ELO rank decreases and this can lead them to get booted off of the app completely or have limited access to other users.
All those changes take time to show their impact. Be patient.
A good way to improve your rank is to pay in the app. You will be shown more and get bonus exposure. But you should not do this if you have had no results before!
It joins what I just described, paying makes you a better user from Tinder's perspective. It could be Tinder plus, Tinder gold, or Tinder platinum (the best).
But I insist. Build a strong profile, and strong habits, with quality photos before! Most of men don’t ever do it because they don’t know how to do it or are too lazy to do it, but ROAST solves both of those problems so use it before everyone gets on top of you without doing anything just because they know us.
You can get a lot of quality matches before spending a single dime.
Have you ever wondered why the algorithm is working for your friends but not you?
It's hard to know what makes a dating profile attractive, and even harder to know which pictures are good or not.
With our AI-trained on 10,000+ pictures rated by hot girls and dating experts, we can help you to choose your best pics and stand out. Make your dating profile more attractive in just 2 minutes.
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Now here you are, you read the article but you are thinking
Great thing, however, my ELO must be SO low since I have 0 matches, what can I do?
You may be too deep in the deck.
What does this mean? Too deep in the deck: no one or very few girls will see you! If no one sees you, how can they like you?
Reset your account on Tinder and you can get your ELO score back. There are two ways to do it.
Also, Tinder hates it! It makes you look like a bot, and you may be banned for it!
So warnings: This can be dangerous, and you should not do it without the intention of changing your habits. If you are banned on Tinder, this will make things even worse!
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After reading this article, you should have a good understanding of how Tinder Elo works and what factors influence it. Armed with this information, you can start taking steps to increase your own Elo rating.
We suggest focusing on increasing the number of right swipes you get as well as boosting your attractiveness rating. However, remember that there are other factors that contribute to your Elo score, so don’t neglect them! Keep up with your profile picture quality, bio content, and overall engagement on the app. And lastly, always stay humble – no one likes an arrogant user.
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Ben is one of the best Dating Experts I've ever met and one of the few that cracked the algorithm of online dating. Every week, Ben is publishing new articles on ROAST, helping 20M+ of people to get more matches, dates, and find the one!
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