Tinder Select might simply show you to more people, which despite not being an advertised feature, would actually matter the most. Here's a little "revenge of

Tinder Select might simply show you to more people, which despite not being an advertised feature, would actually matter the most. Here's a little "revenge of the nerds" story about how I got the best Tinder boost for free back in college by exploiting a glitch that they patched later on. Was set to hetero male mode. Realized that decreasing the radius from >1mi to 1mi in Tinder, killing the app, then reopening it would show me only the women who swiped right on me. I'd match them all, change my radius back to ~5mi, then come back later. I'd never swipe on anyone else. The second piece here is that Tinder had (and still has?) an internal "hotness" score determined by some combo of swipe:match ratio and your absolute number of matches, as first observed by one of my friends. The higher your score, the more likely Tinder will show your bio to others. New accounts also get a temp hotness boost to give them a fair shot. Wasn't obvious to me at first, but the biggest reason women weren't liking my old bio was only that they hadn't even seen it at all, since there are way more active men than women on there. While an average guy would see 1-3 matches his first month, a girl could easily get 100-200. In Berkeley, CA at least. After ~a week of maintaining a 1:1 ratio, every similar-age woman in that city downloading Tinder saw me first or second, as confirmed by a female friend. I was honestly average, and my bio was geared towards serious dating. As you can imagine, the bios after me were gigachad 6'4" athletes. And it worked: I got 1000 matches the first month, another 1000 the second. Probably thousands more passed it.