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This is a pretty standard score until now, here comes the exciting part that made Elo score so interesting.

The Elo system has been developed by and chess grandmaster and the system is most famous for rating and ranking chess player.

If you have a high Elo score, you're more likely to be shown potential matches who also have a high Elo score.

Tyson and his team wrote an algorithm that collected all the matches' biographical information, liked them all, and then counted the number of returning likes.

By October 2014, Tinder users completed over one billion swipes per day, producing about twelve million matches per day.

The selections a user makes are not known to other users unless two individuals swipe right on each other's profiles.

A huge mistake a lot of people make is they try to as they believe that is the best way to maximize their match number.

Based on this Tinder no longer relies on Elo score in their matching algorithm.

As of April 2015, Tinder users swiped through 1.

Tinder began testing its Boost functionality in September 2016 in Australia.

Also, a Tinder user interviewed anonymously in an article published in the December 2018 issue of estimated that only one in 10 of their matches actually resulted in an exchange of messages with the other user they were matched with, with another anonymous Tinder user saying, "Getting right-swiped is a good ego boost even if I have no intention of meeting someone," leading The Atlantic article author to conclude "Unless you are exceptionally good-looking, the thing online dating may be best at is sucking up large amounts of time.