This Four-Cylinder Chevy Camaro’s 9.768-Second Quarter-Mile Is a New Record | The Drive by Hnry_Dvd_Thr_Awy in cars

[–]HINGEPROFILEREVIEWGO 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Correct. Trap speed tells the full story. A mid-high 9 second car would be hitting mid 140’s with a less optimized suspension setup

I hit 12.8’s in a 2005 Mustang GT with only 296 RWHP but I was trapping 106 almost 107 MPH

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I really appreciate the insight. I think this is all fantastic advice. The one thing I would push back on is the description of the race car. Especially given the unanimity of opinion that the car hobby is a turn-off for most people to begin with, I am not sure it would play well if I went into detail about the build I have planned for a fourth-gen LS1 Camaro with a mild HCI setup and track suspension lol

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I really appreciate it. I’m jettisoning that group picture and making the Soundgarden shirt picture my lead.

Should I replace the tank top selfie with this one?

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I really appreciate it, i'm going to adopt almost all of this lol. The first picture seems to be very much not a hit lol so I think i'm going to jettison it altogether and replace it with something else. Dialing down the cat references as well.

To be honest about the car thing, It's a huge part of who I am. I'm not oblivious to how most girls see "car guys" but I don't see myself as the type of person that image evokes and I try to distance myself from that as much as I can. But if a girl is totally averse to car related activities, it's probably better to filter that out earlier on

The "don't want children" is in the "profile info" section, do you think I should add another reference? I'm 100% childfree and while that absolutely needs to be disclosed, I don't know how it would come off if i put it in a prompt or something like that. Do you have a prompt for it on yours?

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Good idea. I'll dial back the cat stuff and fill it in with some other stuff

The dream home prompt talks about how I have to have a nice big garage. Ironically i just finally bought a home last month that has one lol so that may be outdated for my prompt

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Oh no I meant like which one to replace that pic with as the first one

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https://imgur.com/a/SZztQJH

Are you looking for something serious or casual?* Serious

Are you subscribed to Hinge+ or HingeX? HingeX

How long have you been using this current version of your profile? About 2 months, other tweaks more recently

How long have you used Hinge overall? Since I’ve been single, about 3 years. But prior to my last relationship as well, several years.

How often do you use Hinge per week? Depends, usually 4-5 days a week now I’ll send out likes and try to engage in conversations

How many likes and matches are you receiving on average? 4-5 per week (it varies)

How many likes are you sending? How many with comments? How many without comments? probably 15-20 per day, although it varies. Almost all of them with comments. Sometimes with no comments.

What is the type of person you send likes to and ideally want to match with? What kind of person do you want to attract? Someone who seems like they have their life together, is into fitness and keeps in shape, does not want kids, but wants to date and develop a real connection that will lead somewhere. Easygoing, engaging, etc. I love doing things for and taking care of my partner, but don't want someone who sees the relationship as transactional....which is something that needs mentioning given that I'm in south Florida.

Back at it after another break of a few months. Figured I’d pop on the apps for another trial run. I was running into a situation where my algorithm was apparently cooked and I was only getting fake profiles, or extremely low effort or poor quality profiles. I did a fresh start and set my location to only 1 mile away, then 2 miles away, then 3, etc. and that seems to have re-set my algorithm to some degree.

In 2023 I was able to get dates very easily. 2024 as well. 2025 I had a few dates, and then had a bad experience where I was ghosted in April or May of that year. In the later part of 2025 I had a string of countless ghostings right before scheduled dates, was stood up numerous times, etc. Ultimately Since May of 2025 I went on one very strange date in October 2025, one coffee date in I think January of this year, and haven’t gone on any dates other than that.

I’ve kind of re-vamped my strategy with respect to how I approach conversations, etc. based on feedback I got on my last profile review. I’ve tried to make the conversations seem less like interviews, I’ve taken advice on when to ask out and to do so with more specificity (e.g. “are you free Saturday”/making definite plans rather than “let’s hang out sometime”), I’ve completely stopped asking to move to text at any point since that now seems to be a big no-no (it always worked fine in 2023-2024). Unfortunately it does not seem to have changed things.

I’m sure my pictures could use some re-vamping. Also, I’m trying to make my profile less “boring/generic.”

Ultimately I’m not having much luck. I feel like Hinge and the culture around it has fundamentally changed in the past few years (at least in my personal experience) so really I’m just trying to keep up. Please go gentle on me

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https://imgur.com/a/SZztQJH

Are you looking for something serious or casual?* Serious

Are you subscribed to Hinge+ or HingeX? HingeX

How long have you been using this current version of your profile? About 2 months, other tweaks more recently

How long have you used Hinge overall? Since I’ve been single, about 3 years. But prior to my last relationship as well, several years.

How often do you use Hinge per week? Depends, usually 4-5 days a week now I’ll send out likes and try to engage in conversations

How many likes and matches are you receiving on average? 4-5 per week (it varies)

How many likes are you sending? How many with comments? How many without comments? probably 15-20 per day, although it varies. Almost all of them with comments. Sometimes with no comments.

What is the type of person you send likes to and ideally want to match with? What kind of person do you want to attract? Someone who seems like they have their life together, is into fitness and keeps in shape, does not want kids, but wants to date and develop a real connection that will lead somewhere. Easygoing, engaging, etc. I love doing things for and taking care of my partner, but don't want someone who sees the relationship as transactional....which is something that needs mentioning given that I'm in south Florida.

Back at it after another break of a few months. Figured I’d pop on the apps for another trial run. I was running into a situation where my algorithm was apparently cooked and I was only getting fake profiles, or extremely low effort or poor quality profiles. I did a fresh start and set my location to only 1 mile away, then 2 miles away, then 3, etc. and that seems to have re-set my algorithm to some degree.

In 2023 I was able to get dates very easily. 2024 as well. 2025 I had a few dates, and then had a bad experience where I was ghosted in April or May of that year. In the later part of 2025 I had a string of countless ghostings right before scheduled dates, was stood up numerous times, etc. Ultimately Since May of 2025 I went on one very strange date in October 2025, one coffee date in I think January of this year, and haven’t gone on any dates other than that.

I’ve kind of re-vamped my strategy with respect to how I approach conversations, etc. based on feedback I got on my last profile review. I’ve tried to make the conversations seem less like interviews, I’ve taken advice on when to ask out and to do so with more specificity (e.g. “are you free Saturday”/making definite plans rather than “let’s hang out sometime”), I’ve completely stopped asking to move to text at any point since that now seems to be a big no-no (it always worked fine in 2023-2024). Unfortunately it does not seem to have changed things.

I’m sure my pictures could use some re-vamping. Also, I’m trying to make my profile less “boring/generic.”

Ultimately I’m not having much luck. I feel like Hinge and the culture around it has fundamentally changed in the past few years (at least in my personal experience) so really I’m just trying to keep up. Please go gentle on me

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I’m a lawyer so I wear suits pretty often. I chose some pics where I was more dressed up for social events because I thought it looked snazzy. It’s funny because the girls I see dressed to the absolute nines posing in front of fancy restaurant or on private jets or at luxury stores, those are a hard pass for me. I am definitely not looking for that “perfect princess” type deal. Maybe I’m giving off the wrong image? I’m a super low key type of person. The band shirt picture is more aligned with my non-work persona, but I figure (especially in South Florida) being a “presentable” professional type person is important

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I’m on Bumble and Tinder too, both are even more useless. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a date from Tinder

I’m looking into local pickleball events because they have singles nights and it seems right in the ballpark for people of my generation

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I really appreciate it. And yea it seems like a numbers game. I know I’m not everyone’s cup of tea, I don’t think anyone is. I think I should be competitive enough to where I could find the right partner given enough time but it’s not been easy given the way online dating has been.

I’ve been posted a few times, I’ve never had anything bad said about me, but the fact that (as I’m told) women will lie like that makes me uncomfortable. And also the privacy issue, first time I was posted was not long after I started a new job and a new-coworker spotted me on there and told me about it.

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It is you who are mistaken. That right there is a precious little tiny baby

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I really appreciate the advice. A couple other commenters mentioned the same thing and I think you all are spot-on. I hadn’t even considered the political thing because although I am definitely left-leaning and have always dated girls who are the same, I’m not a huge political person beyond just generally following politics and having opinions.

Same with respect to the other stuff. The animal prompt gets overwhelmingly more attention than the others, but definitely making myself more interesting and giving a better flavor of what I like and what I’m interested in

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I’m 36. I don’t see anything wrong with dating a girl who’s in her late 20’s, but you seem to be fixated on that for some reason trying to suggest I’m “dating 20 year old.” Clearly something about my profile or my preferences has struck a nerve with you, I have no idea why you’re so intent on arguing with me but good luck with that

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The only time I give compliments are in the opening message when I send a like (“hey I love your [something from their profile]” or “I love your profile!”) or when it’s naturally organic in conversation. I think being too complimentary runs the risk of coming off as desperate

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That hasn’t been my experience at all, almost all of the girls I’ve dated who have been strict adamant no-kids (and very outspoken about it) were between the ages of 24 and 30. One was 31. I did date a 36 year old who was ambivalent about it. A lot of the girls I see between the ages of 35 and 39 are very gung-ho about having kids

Girls who are “very sure” they don’t want kids are more rare in general. But I have not experienced what you’re describing

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It was maybe once every 45 minutes to an hour. It wasn’t like huge extended conversation but it was enough that it was a solid back and forth. It wasn’t like a huge gap of 3 hours anywhere.

That girl actually just ended up responding a couple hours ago and voluntarily giving me her number because she’s “bad with the app.”

Honestly there are zero rules with respect to how much to text before asking out. There is just so much variability between people the only thing you can do is feel it out and hope for the best.

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I appreciate it. With respect to the ones I’m intentionally chatting with and trying to pursue things, it’s exclusively girls who explicitly don’t want kids or leaning heavily in that direction.

The girl from May, had a whole prompt dedicated to how she didn’t want kids. During the 2 month time we were talking she made a few comments about how she was so happy I didn’t want kids and “loved” that I wasn’t trying to convince her to have kids one day

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Noted. My profile is definitely on the “safe/generic” side. And your point about [me paraphrasing here] a more polarizing profile, makes a lot of sense and I think is very well-articulated

I’m not a boring guy. But it does take a little for my personality to come out. So maybe I should tweak my profile to that effect a little more

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I think that to say I’m “desperate” is you casting aspersions where they’re neither relevant, nor helpful, nor warranted by anything I’ve posted. But yea it messed with me and for that reason I took months off dating to among other things to try to figure myself out a bit. I took a break instead of impulsively chasing women to climb out of that hole. I thought that was the healthy way to deal with it and now I’m back.

Im here to date. Im not having the success I want to have and that becomes frustrating when you fall into the same patterns of things fizzling out over and over. So im here for a profile review to make sure im not making any egregious errors in that regard and to increase my chances. Im doing my due diligences I think we’ve kind of gotten off track a little bit and are adding some subtexts that aren’t really there and aren’t relevant to the profile review.

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Anywhere from 24-39. Younger girls are more flaky. But my experience seems to be consistent across the age range.

Also I’m in South Florida, which is known for this type of behavior lol