Tinder prompt answers, written for a fast swipe

Tinder added profile prompts long after the bio, and most people still treat them as an afterthought. That is an opportunity. Tinder profiles are judged faster than on any other major app, usually in a second or two per photo, so a prompt answer has to land in its first few words. The ones that work are short, specific and a little opinionated. The ones that fail are hedged, generic, or read as a list of conditions a match has to meet before they are allowed to swipe.

Each page below covers a single Tinder prompt: example answers grouped by tone, very short answers for when you want the photos to do most of the talking, rewrites of the weak answers people default to, and an explanation of what separates an answer that starts a conversation from one that just fills the space. Both prompts here also appear on Hinge, so the examples carry over if you use both apps.

For the bio itself, the free Tinder bio generator writes a short bio from your own answers, sized to fit Tinder's character limit and checked against overused lines.