Over 70% of your Tinder success is based on how great your 1st profile picture is. The rest 30% are shared between all your other photos and your bio description.
There are a few ways you can go about optimizing your 1st photo:
- Ask your friends — they'll get annoyed quite quickly though
- Use photo rating websites — but star ratings are notoriously unreliable
- Use FaceRank — pairwise A/B testing with statistical confidence
How to A/B Test Your Tinder Photos with FaceRank
The process is simple:
- Hit on Upload your own button.
- Upload your current 1st profile photo along with a new photo that you think might be better.
- Hit Login or register button.
- Hit Upload button.
Now it's time to wait for the community to vote on your photos. Once enough votes are in, we'll notify you over email. Alternatively, you can check your profile to see whether results are ready to be Unlocked.
While you wait, vote on other profiles and earn Credits.
Why A/B Testing Beats Tinder "Smart Photos"
You might think — what's the point of A/B testing your 1st picture when you can just use Tinder's Smart Photos feature? The way Smart Photos works is that it shuffles your top photos until it finds which gets more right swipes. Yet you have very little control and insight into it:
- Tinder won't tell you which picture is the best
- You won't know why it's the best
- You won't see how it compares to your other photos
- You'll learn exactly zero new points about how to present yourself online
It's a black box! FaceRank gives you transparent, data-backed results with actual win percentages and statistical confidence — so you know exactly which photo works and why.