Tinder Profile Examples for Guys

A good Tinder profile for a guy has a clear lead shot of his face and a set that shows more than one side of his life. It has a short bio with one true specific thing in it. And it has a prompt that gives her something to answer. Below are three whole profiles in that layout, with the reason behind each choice. The men are invented for this article. They are not real people or clients, and nothing here claims a result for them.

Tinder's edit screen is reached from the profile icon and the pencil icon, or Edit Info. It lists the pieces a profile is built from. Those are your pictures, an About Me (the bio), lifestyle tags and interests. Then come pronouns, height, relationship goals, languages, job and company, school, your city, and gender and orientation. Tinder notes that the options vary by location.

Prompts are questions you pick and answer to show personality and give someone a way to start talking. You can preview how your profile looks to others from the edit screen, which is worth doing after every change.

Tinder's own advice on the bio is "whatever feels true": a list of things you are into, what you are looking for, a reference only the right person will catch. Light or deep both work, as long as it is yours.

Lead shot: daylight, face clear, smiling, no sunglasses. Then a pickup game mid-play with friends, where it is obvious which man is him. Then dinner at a long table with family, laughing. Then a kayak on a gray lake. Then a wedding, in a suit that fits.

About Me: "Night-shift nurse, so my Saturday starts at two in the afternoon and I am fine with that. Worst player on my pickup team, loudest on the bench. Looking for someone to have a long breakfast with at an hour most people call lunch."

Prompt: "The first item on my bucket list is: learning to cook one thing that is not eggs."

Why it works. The bio explains his odd schedule honestly, so she knows what a week with him looks like. It admits one small flaw, the basketball, which is easy to tease. And the last line says what he wants and then shows a scene. A list of qualities reads like a form, but a breakfast reads like a plan.

Lead shot: close and well lit, face large enough to read on a small screen. Then him in boots on a hillside, in the rain. Then a laughing group shot where he is the one in the green jacket. Then a kitchen, mid-argument with a pan. Then a quiet one, reading on a ferry.

About Me: "Land surveyor. I tell people where their fence actually ends, and I am right more often than is comfortable. I will quote a movie at the wrong moment. If you finish the line, we are already on a second date."

Prompt: "The key to my heart is: someone who will take the long way home and not mention it."

Why it works. The bio uses Tinder's own suggestion of a reference only the right person will catch, and it tells her something about how he works. The pictures tell a story rather than filler, in the way a dating coach praises: a man on a hillside in bad weather says more than a man in front of a mirror. The group shot is useful because she can tell who he is.

Lead shot: daylight, smiling, shoulders and face. Then him mid-song in a choir, in the front row. Then a rain jacket on a lookout. Then dinner with friends. Then one dressed-up shot at a wedding.

About Me: "Run a warehouse by day, sing baritone in a community choir by night, which surprises everyone including the choir. Karaoke bad on purpose."

Prompt: "Two truths and a lie: I have sung in front of a full stadium. I can reverse a forklift through a row of cones. I have never been late for choir."

Why it works. The contrast is the hook. a dating coach praises a profile that shows an interesting contrast and a lifestyle, and a man who moves boxes and sings baritone is exactly that. The prompt is a small game, which gives her something to reply to besides "hey."

Each lead shot passes Tinder's own test for pictures. Tinder says to use the one where it is actually you, in focus, facing forward, with no sunglasses hiding half your face and no group shots where it has to guess. Its Photo Tips also looks at the set as a whole and favors a mix of activities, settings and poses, flagging pictures that are too similar.

Each set avoids the gym or mirror shot that could belong to any man. a dating coach's view is that a profile that is not wrong but looks like every other guy gets passed over almost by instinct.

Each written line says something about what dating him is like, rather than a bare fact. My advice is to lead with the most relevant true parts of your personality, not trivia, and to avoid answers that are only facts.

None of them is all nice. "I am nice and I want someone nice" makes a profile interchangeable. coach says the lead lines should have some edge or challenge before the comfort. He also warns that confusion does not lead to swipes, so the edge should be clear, not cryptic.

a dating coach warns students not to clone his profile: the structure can be borrowed but the content must be yours. The same goes here. Take the layout, then fill it with your own job, your own flaw and your own Saturday. A profile has to match how you actually show up, or the first date feels like meeting a stranger.

Pictures get the match. The bio and prompts matter once decent matches start arriving, so if matches are scarce, fix pictures before words. When you do change something, change one picture at a time, track what happens and expect to go through more than one draft. A profile is rarely right on the first attempt.