--- title: Tinder: Men Swipe Right 3 Times as Much as Women description: Men apparently see much more that they like on Tinder than women do. canonical: https://time.com/3547890/tinder-men-women-swipe-right/ author: Dan Hirschhorn article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-30T11:46:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:11.828Z og:title: Tinder: Men Swipe Right 3 Times as Much as Women og:description: Men apparently see much more that they like on Tinder than women do. og:url: https://time.com/3547890/tinder-men-women-swipe-right/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt615f7f3d01ac9096/69869a01cd804d1704ccbbc6/ap594696899261.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4138 og:image:height: 2328 og:image:alt: App Tinder og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tinder: Men Swipe Right 3 Times as Much as Women twitter:description: Men apparently see much more that they like on Tinder than women do. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt615f7f3d01ac9096/69869a01cd804d1704ccbbc6/ap594696899261.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Men Swipe Right on Tinder 3 Times as Much as Women > Sponsored content. 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On the popular dating app, which has users swipe right to indicate they “like” a potential match and swipe left to say “nope,” men are almost three times as likely to swipe right than women are, the New York _Times_ reports. Men do it 46% of the time, while women do it just 14% of the time. **MORE:** [The new dating game](http://time.com/4799/the-new-dating-game/) The _Times_, citing an unnamed source, reports that Tinder now has close to 50 million active users. Co-founder and CEO Sean Rad touted its more realistic appeal to physical attraction over the algorithms that other dating sites say yield compatible matches, algorithms viewed skeptically by social scientists. “When was the last time you walked into a bar and someone said, ‘Excuse me, can you fill out this form and we’ll match you up with people here?’” Rad said. “That’s not how we think about meeting new people in real life.” \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/fashion/tinder-the-fast-growing-dating-app-taps-an-age-old-truth.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3547890/tinder-men-women-swipe-right/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3547890/tinder-men-women-swipe-right/"},"headline":"Men Swipe Right on Tinder 3 Times as Much as Women","datePublished":"2014-10-30T11:46:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:11.828Z","description":"More \"likes\" than \"nopes\"","url":"https://time.com/3547890/tinder-men-women-swipe-right/","keywords":["Living","Newsfeed","Tech","relationships","Tinder"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt615f7f3d01ac9096/69869a01cd804d1704ccbbc6/ap594696899261.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Hirschhorn","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/dan-hirschhorn/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt615f7f3d01ac9096/69869a01cd804d1704ccbbc6/ap594696899261.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"App Tinder","caption":"App Tinder","creditText":"Franziska Kraufmann—picture-alliance/dpa/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3547890/tinder-men-women-swipe-right/","name":"Men Swipe Right on Tinder 3 Times as Much as Women"}}]}] ```