How to Skip a Profile in Hinge Standouts

Swipe the profile to the left. That is how Hinge's help page says to skip someone in Standouts. In Discover you skip by tapping the black X instead, and in either feed a skip tells Hinge you were not interested in that person.

The two feeds use different gestures, which is why men get stuck. In Discover you pass on someone by tapping the black X. In Standouts you swipe her card to the left and the next person comes up.

Everything else about a skip is the same in both places. Hinge's help page says that skipping to the next person tells Hinge you were not interested. It also says its algorithm learns from your activity in the app, so your skips are part of how it works out your type.

So a skip is not wasted. It is you telling Hinge what you do not want more of, which is useful information to give it.

Swiped too fast? Tap the undo arrow to bring back the last person you skipped. Hinge sets two limits on this.

You can only undo your most recent skip. Skip a second woman and the first one cannot be brought back with the arrow.

Free members also get a limited number of undos, and that allowance is shared across Discover, Standouts and Likes You. Hinge+ and HingeX subscribers can undo their most recent skip as many times as they like.

If you see "Undo unavailable", that person cannot be restored. Hinge also says it is unable to bring back skipped people manually, in any of the three feeds. So slow down in Standouts, where each woman has already been picked out as someone getting a lot of attention.

Most bad skips happen on the first picture. Her lead shot is dark or oddly cropped, you swipe, and you never see the three answers underneath that would have made you laugh.

a dating coach describes his own habit before messaging a woman. He scrolls through her whole profile looking for anything unusual he can comment on, and especially anything he can tease her about. That habit is just as useful for deciding whether to skip at all. Give every Standout the few seconds it takes to reach the bottom. A strange hobby or a sharp opinion is often the reason she is worth a Rose.

Here is the part that matters more for your results. Every woman on Hinge is doing exactly what you just did, on your profile, in a few seconds.

She looks at your first picture and reads a line or two. If nothing gives her a reason to keep going, she skips, and you never find out. Your Likes You tab simply stays quiet.

a dating coach's view is that this works across the board. Pictures that make you look attractive make you look attractive to women in general. A bio that is intriguing gets attention in general too. There is no special trick for one kind of woman. A stronger profile gets you more likes from the hottest women, the cute ones and everyone in between.

Hinge publishes its own list of what tends to help and hurt. Its page about not getting matches names the pictures that tend to get more likes. The list is pictures that show your interests, candid shots, sports, smiles, and pictures with friends or pets. Selfies tend to get fewer, especially bathroom and mirror selfies. So do posed shots, filters, beach pictures, sunglasses, and pictures with someone who looks like a partner.

For the written part, Hinge says fun prompt responses that say something about you are more likely to get engagement from like-minded people.

Put those together and the usual reasons a man gets skipped are easy to spot. He leads with a mirror selfie, or wears sunglasses that hide his eyes, and his three answers could belong to anyone.

Standouts is the feed where your profile has to do the most work, because the women in it see a lot of men. A Rose puts you at the top of her Likes You, but she still looks at your page and decides in seconds.

So before you spend a Rose on anyone, look at your own profile the way she will. Lead with a clear, smiling, candid picture of your face. Follow with one that shows something you actually do. Rewrite any answer a stranger could not reply to in one sentence. Then go back to Standouts and swipe with confidence, knowing the women you do send a Rose to will see something worth stopping for.