F.A.Q

Usually advance registration is required for speed dating events. Men and women are rotated to meet each other over a series of short "dates" usually lasting around 5 minutes depending on the event. At the end of each interval, the organizer rings a bell, clinks a glass, or blows a whistle to signal the participants to move on to the next date.

The time limit ensures that a participant will not be stuck with a boorish match for very long, and prevents participants from monopolizing one another's time.

At the end of the event participants submit to the organizers a list of who they would like to provide their contact information to. If there is a match, contact information is forwarded to both parties. Because the matching itself happens after the event, people do not feel pressured to select or reject each other in person.

There is nothing to lose!!

One of the advantages that speed dating has over online dating in general is that when being face to face with someone, you get a better sense of who they are due to their body language, gestures, tonality and more.

According to the New York Times, participants in speed dating experience an average of 2 in 10 or 3 in 10 matches.

Online dating participants, in contrast, only find a compatible match with 1 in 100 or fewer of the profiles they study.

As reported by the BBC in the Science of Love, it only takes between 90 seconds to 4 minutes of face-to-face interaction to determine attraction, which gives speed dating an advantage over online dating.