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Curious to hear about people's experiences! I've also been toying with the idea myself as I almost never message someone who doesn't have a match percentage with me that is at least in the 70s.
I love the matching algorithm, but heard I don't think it's absolute or anything. I've heard of instances where people had low percentages and still got along.
Also, there is a big flaw on the site in that the number of questions aren't taken into account when determining the percentage. So, if someone answers only 5 questions and you answered 2,000 they could have a really low percentage with you or a really high one. However, if they took the time to answer that many questions their match percentage with you could completely flip.
My husband and I met on okcupid and had a low percentage match, because I didn't answer any questions at all, and my husband had only answered a handful. We're highly compatible, but our percentages were pretty meaningless, because we didn't use that feature. I wrote him because I liked what he'd written, and subsequent conversations gave a good indication of compatibility.
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I've tried it. Never worked. Always had great convos (that doesn't mean there was chemistry) with people over 95%. People under 80% were never any fun.
I found it more interesting when I see someone I dated or am friends with that I never met on OKC. Invariably my good friends and people I did get along great with have high percentages, always over 95, sometimes 99. The people I didn't care for were 75 or lower.
I've been tempted to, just based on the comedy factor of some profiles... but no, I've never actually had the nerve to follow through for real.
Many of those low % are because the person just won't bother filling out more than a couple of profile questions. It's just lack of information. Defeats the purpose of the site, I guess.
I haven't dated too many on OKC and I can barely remember the percentage... I think I match at least 75% with most people if we have both answered a lot of questions...
I've only ever gone for the 80+% crowd. I only tend to answer those questions that are really important to me (e.g. religion, politics, how liberal are they in their views etc). I did have a few guys trying to persuade me to give them a shot anyway ("But opposites attract!") but that wouldn't work for me.
Sure. I'll go on at least one date with any woman who messages me...I'm too intrigued not to. Naturally, those dates are less likely to work out, but they haven't all gone terribly. Some were perfectly nice.
Back in the day I once sorted "anywhere" by enemy percentage and there was one--only one--person who was 99% enemy, halfway across the country. I messaged him to meet me for 20 paces at dawn. It was good for a few funny messages and laughs, and we wished each other well, lamenting that Congress couldn't be so civil in its disagreements.
Back in the day I once sorted "anywhere" by enemy percentage and there was one--only one--person who was 99% enemy, halfway across the country. I messaged him to meet me for 20 paces at dawn. It was good for a few funny messages and laughs, and we wished each other well, lamenting that Congress couldn't be so civil in its disagreements.
I messaged a woman like this once (I believe we were 97% enemies), who said that she'd be interested in meeting an "arch-nemesis". We flirted, but never met.
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