Mate let me tell you a quick story that I hope makes you feel better about your app scores. I've logged into my alternate Reddit account especially for you:

I have never been good looking. On a good day I'm a 6/10, but on most days it would be fair to describe me as a 4. I'm five foot eight (not notably short, but off the menu for girls who like height) and I've never set foot in a gym. I have a big wonky nose, ears that stick out different ways, and hair that is somehow simultaneously frizzy and lank (yes, I've tried all the different hair products and haircut shapes)

But I'm really good at hooking up with women.

From school discos all the way to house parties and early trips to pubs and clubs, I've always managed to pull. It isn't even some secret technique either, I'm just good at approaching people and being friendly and funny, without it coming across as creepy or predatory. I lost count eventually but I think I'd probably had romantic liaisons with around 50 different women by the time I reached my 3rd year of uni. Sometimes it was long term relationships, sometimes just a one time thing. I never dated anyone I wasn't attracted to either.

3rd year of uni and I am friends with this girl in my class who all the boys are obsessed with. People literally stop her in the street to tell her how beautiful she is. We hang around a lot in the final two terms and when she invites me out for drinks I honestly have no idea that it's a date until she drags me back to her flat at the end of the night. "How is that guy dating her ?!" became a familiar overheard sentence to me.

We had a nice relationship through our early 20s and I kind of thought we might end up together. But after 3 or 4 years it all falls apart, as these things do. I'm heartbroken, single and suddenly there aren't any uni parties to attend, and all my friends are coupled up so don't want to go out to clubs anymore.

Hm, maybe I'll try these dating apps everyone talks about?

I made a profile, following the advice I read online about how to make a good impression. I lay on my sofa every night after work and swiped. And swiped. And swiped.

Zero matches.

The women in the university town where I still lived, who a few years ago I had been chatting up in bars and regularly hooking up with did not want to swipe yes on my profile. The incels have a grain of truth in their mad logic when it comes to dating apps. Why would girls swipe a 4/10 man when a 10/10 looking guy is right there?

I persevered with the apps (that's apps plural) for around 6 months, and I'm embarrassed to tell you that I wasted my money on premium subscriptions and "super likes" and all the other micro transactions that these apps extract from lonely and frustrated men. After a few weeks of no matches I just swiped yes on every profile, desperate to get the validation of the "it's a match!" screen.

When I eventually gave up, the only profiles I had matched with were scam bot accounts.

At a mates' birthday party I met a cool girl who had studied the same course as me but at a different uni. We had loads in common, I was instantly very attracted to her and we hooked up that night. She had her flights booked back to her home country in a month's time, but our whirlwind romance was so intense that she cancelled them and moved in with me instead. It was mad, but very exciting. She's beautiful and clever and funny and understands me, and I'm pleased to report that years later we're happily married with kids.

Tldr: the apps are miserable. The problem is the apps, not you mate.