I mapped out the last 6 months of my dating life using a Sankey diagram.

It shows how things flowed from matches → conversations → dates → outcomes.

Quick definition: Dating = gone on more than 3 dates, not that we’re bf/gf

I put it together mostly because I ended up enjoying the process more than I expected! I decided to really invest in dating and putting myself out there this past year. I met a ton of new people and made a lot of memories! Felt like a fun way to look back at everything so far, and to show others that the apps do in fact still work!

Posted by Sweet_Year_6950

41 Comments

  1. Whitedancingrockstar on

    Do the two people you are dating know that you are dating somebody else too…? If not, this is quite an embarrassing personal trait of yours to share

  2. NamelessTacoShop on

    This is WAY better results than we usually see for guys in dating apps. So now I am really curious about this guys location, age, height, weight, job etc.

  3. Matches my experience on the ratio between matches and first dates actually…thats kind of interesting considering I was mostly aiming for long term relationship too.

    Looks like its true about that advice that you cant just twiddle your thumbs over every match you get because its highly likely most matches will not pan out into a date.

  4. So you went on 38+ dates in 6 months with 18 different women? Thats more than 1.5 dates a week. And you are currently dating 2 people, who you’ve gone on 4+ dates with and still haven’t made a decision? I think you might be the problem bro

  5. Lots of people are asking you to define dating (which you did) but can you define ghosting? As in, are all these people just disappearing without saying anything or are some saying “no thanks” and you’re calling it a ghost?

  6. Lots of losers and incels exposing themselves in the comments here.

    If you’re going on dates with someone, but you’ve never talked about becoming exclusive, then you can date whomever you want on the side.

    This shows it’s worked for most people for a long, long time.

  7. How high population of an area? My results weren’t nearly as good, but I also live in a city of 20,000 people.

  8. Okay but no one has asked; gay, straight, or bi? Cuz that also needs to be considered from a date stand point.

  9. Super_Huckleberry663 on

    Ngl if I found out you were dating someone else for multiple dates while also dating me ild just walk away from you and let them have you. I don’t need that kind of indecisiveness in my life

  10. cryptotrader87 on

    God what a wasteland. The amount of women that called me a nerd or “poor”. I work at Microsoft as a software engineer. Some of the women were unemployed and said this lol

  11. austin101123 on

    This is an insane number of dates and first dates to me. Why so many?

    I’ve not had 18 first dates in my whole life.

  12. As a guy, Hinge has been far and away the best app for me getting dates. Its very weird how much better it works for me than the other apps.

  13. Dragonblade0123 on

    r/HolUp something about this makes stop… dunno why…

    But yeah, 2 still dating is wild.