How Does Speed Dating Work?

Video Transcript

"How does speed dating work? Speed dating is actually very simple. What happens, is you'll get fifteen, probably up to twenty singles of either sex, and they have what's called, mini dates, so you'll have a man and a woman, or even two women, two men even. It' doesn't matter. When you attend an event, you'll be given a number, and that's how, and you're given a number, a notepad, and a pen, and as you go round, you best take notes on the person, writing down each number and details about that person. It's very useful to take notes as well, because when you come to the end of the evening, and you're given your scorecards, write down who you would like to meet. If you look at notes, it generally helps you with your decisions at the end. Each date, can generally last between three minutes to eight minutes, although, eight minutes is not advisable, as it can be quite a long time, when you're talking to a stranger, and the organizer will use a stopwatch to time how long you talk to the person. Then, at the end of the three minutes, a whistle will blow, and the men will move on to the next person, and the process starts, the minute that it starts again, and then at the end of the evening, you're handed out a scorecard, and what happens on the scorecard, is you will write down the names of the people, all the numbers, who you would like to see again, and if you get a match, the organizer will then contact you, or if you go with a web based one who has online access, you better lock on, and find if you've got any matches, and the way a match works is, say for example, I was number one, and I liked a gentleman who was number four. I would put down four, and if that gentleman had put down number one, that would mean we had a match, so the organizer would then telephone in, or put it online for him to view. They would give him my email address, or my phone number. Whatever way I told the organizer I would like to be contacted, by that person, and vice versa, and then you would take it from there, to arrange our own date, with that person. I mean, speed dating is 75% successful, but there are some times when people maybe don't get a match, but it's not that no one didn't like them, or no one wanted to put them down. It's just, if you go along and you put one person down, and that one person in the group doesn't put you down, you don't get a match, but nineteen other men in the room, or nineteen people, could have put you down. Some people obviously don't get a match, and what will happen then is, you will get telephoned by the organizer, obviously, as I said before, online, and it will be put on the internet for you to access, and they will tell you, and they'll say you didn't get a match, so then what happens then, is you'll be able to go along to the event free next time, and actually didn't get a match, and that's how each, I mean every speed dating organizer is different, but generally that's the rule, and that's how they will operate, and that's how speed dating works."