How to Answer the "Change My Mind About" Prompt on Hinge

State a small opinion plainly, make it specific enough to argue with, and sound like a man who can be moved. That is the whole formula for this Hinge prompt. Pick something harmless, like a food or a weekend habit, and leave the door open for her to push. If you have the prompt on your profile, or you see it in your list, the answer should be a light opinion, not a hot take.

The wording asks to be talked out of a view. So the answer is an opinion that invites an argument, held loosely enough that arguing feels friendly.

That matters because opinions beat facts as conversation starters. A fact ends the conversation: she nods and scrolls on. An opinion gives her a reason to type. Telling a man he is wrong is the easiest message she will write all day, and she writes it with some heat.

We file the opinion prompts as the ones where you take a side, for exactly that reason. A "change my mind" answer is a clean version of that move, since the stem has already asked her to disagree.

Choose a subject where nobody gets hurt. A food, a holiday, a way to spend a weekend, the right amount of time to arrive at an airport. Each of these has two reasonable camps, and each camp wants to answer.

Avoid anything that is really about people. Take a side on politics, your exes or other men and most women will pass on you, and the few who write back are rarely the ones you were hoping for. a dating coach says the same about politics: he tries not to bring it up in a profile and keeps the page on topic and relevant to the experience of dating him.

A good side is narrow and ordinary. If it takes a paragraph to explain why anyone would disagree, it is the wrong side.

None of these comes from a real profile. They were made up to show how the opinion should sound.

"Change my mind about: arriving at the airport three hours early is the only civilized way to travel. I have a book and a plan for the lounge snacks. Bring evidence." The opinion is slightly ridiculous, the stakes are nothing, and "bring evidence" shows he can be moved.

"Change my mind about: Tuesday is the best night to go out. Better service, a table, and nobody performing for anybody." It is specific, easy to dispute, and it quietly says what he likes.

"Change my mind about: comedy sequels are almost always better than the original. I will accept one good counterexample." The offer of one counterexample makes it a game and tells her how to win it.

A weak answer is usually one of three things.

The first is a hot take that sounds like an attack on a group of people or on how she lives. "Change my mind about: people who don't tip" or anything beginning with "women who" turns a game into an accusation.

The second is a fact about you wearing an opinion's coat: "Change my mind about: I don't like cilantro." That is a preference, not a position, and there is nothing to argue with.

The third is the shrug. "Change my mind about: nothing, I'm easygoing" is a nice answer, and our coaches' view is that prompts written to be nice are forgettable. Take a real position, as long as it is harmless and playful.

Test the answer before you post it. Ask whether a stranger could argue with it in one sentence. If she cannot, you wrote a statement, not a debate.

If the stem on your screen is worded something like "Let's debate this topic," the same rules apply. Go by the exact words you see, because the job is identical either way: take a side and let her take the other one.

Keep the stance low stakes, for all the reasons above. a dating coach adds a point on the other side. He tells men whose prompts are too nice to add something edgy and challenging. A profile that is polarizing early and comfortable later gets noticed before the softer lines arrive. The edge is a food opinion with some bite, not a political one.

The last rule is about format. State your side and stop. a dating coach points out that a boring get-to-know-you question inside a prompt wastes the slot, because prompts are one of the few places to convey personality. "Let's debate this topic: what's your favorite movie?" asks her to supply the debate. Give her the one you picked.

Picture the first thing she types. If it is "absolutely not" or "okay, but have you considered", the opinion works. If it is "same" or "lol", the opinion is too agreeable. Make it slightly less true of everyone.

A Hinge profile carries only a few prompt answers at once, and you can swap any of them when you want. If an opinion draws replies for a month and then goes stale, put a fresh one in its place.