How to Raise Your Dating App ELO Score and Attract Better Matches

Howdy howdy—alright, I’m back and ready to drop some game-changing info on the dating world. In this article, let’s break down how to boost your ELO score and start matching with better, more attractive profiles.

👉 If you haven’t read it yet, check this out first:
Understanding What ELO Score Is in Dating Apps

What Increases Your ELO Score?

Your ELO score (aka how desirable you are on a dating app) mostly goes up based on two factors:

1. Getting people to swipe right on you. The higher their ELO score, the more it helps yours.
2. Getting people to view your profile and spend time on it. If people are curious about you, the algorithm notices.

What Tanks Your Score

Be careful—your ELO can also go down fast. Here’s what to avoid:

• Swiping right on every single profile you see. Comon, don’t do this, every dating app algorithm can sense desperation. Or worse, it could think you’re a bot. Instead you should change it up and throw in a dislike here or there. Just set your Swiperino setting to 97% like ratio and you’re golden.
• Not interacting with your matches: Leaving people on “new match” without messaging tells the algorithm you’re wasting other users' time. You don’t need to message everyone, but aim for real conversations.
• Terrible conversation skills: Yes, they analyze everything you’re doing on the app. Conversations included. If you’re rude, boring, or just plain weird, that affects your score. Be chill. Try to talk like a normal person.

How to Actually Increase Your Score

🔁 Change Your Location

If you’re in an area where people are picky or you’re not doing well, switch it up. Try a place with lower income levels or where you might stand out. Spend 2–4 weeks there. It works.

📸 Improve Your Photos

Look, everyone edits their pics a bit. Ladies are notorious for this. Use your best old photos or subtly enhance them. You can always change them later—your goal is to draw attention now to get your elo score up.

📏 Height “Adjustment”

Not encouraging lying, but stretching the truth is... negotiable. If you’re 5'9"(175cm) barefoot but 6'0"(185cm) in shoes, round up. Search filters are brutal, and you want to show up in more of them. Max you can strech is about 3 inches(10cm). Make sure you keep your back straight when you first meet her.

💼 Add Your Job

Yes, women say “job doesn’t matter,” but that’s not what the data shows. Mention your profession like: “I work in tech / finance / real estate.” No need to flex—let her imagination do the work. Unless she asks, don’t be too specific, let her mind draw up it’s own fantasies.

📷 Make Your First Photo Clickable

Use something that catches the eye: tiny upside-down font, a hidden gorilla, anything that gets someone to tap. Get creative. Once your score improves, you can update it.

🚫 Avoid Politics (Usually)

Unless you’re targeting a hyper-political area, stay neutral. But if you want to experiment, you might get results by appealing to underserved demographics with a strong profile.

The Bottom Line

Just play around with things. There’s no way to check your ELO score directly—no API, no app. But trust me, when it’s high, you’ll know. More matches. Hotter people. Better convos. It'll feel like you are playing on easy mode.

🔥 Pro Tip: Changing your location is by far the most effective method. Dating apps don’t seem to adjust your ELO by region, so once you’ve “leveled up,” just move your location back to where you actually want to date.

If none of this works? You may need to delete your account and start fresh. Just make sure not to run two accounts at once—most apps prohibit that. (We’ll write more about resetting your account soon.)

Gonna be posting some more good articles here so keep an eye open.

Disclaimer: We're speaking about dating apps in general, not any one in particular.