Now let’s imagine that I did meet several girls. They would come here and notice that I was talking about meeting several girls and they would think “oh, well he’s talking to other people at the same time, he must not like me specifically!”.

Alternatively, let’s say I met only one girl. She would come here and see me mention that I met one girl, and she would know I was talking about her, which would be weird for her if I said anything specific.

The last potential case is that I met nobody at all, in which case I would have to admit here on the public internet that I met nobody, presumably meaning that I am a total loser or whatever people would say.

Thus, for any value of N, where N is the number of people I met, it would be bad for me to say what N is here. Q.E.D.

P.S. If you must know, N > 0

As for next time – yeah, I think I would do it again if I was still single at that point. It was definitely interesting to try.

So, out of the 40 you met, not one, huh? Still, good experience, right? I mean, you got out there, tried it, and know what sort of speed dating method you might like to try next time – will there be a next time?

Either way, I am glad for you that you tried…

Or even better, you could rate everyone from 1-5, and give them the whole list. Then they’d put people in touch if their combined score is high enough. E.g. if you rate someone a 3 (“maybe”) and they rate you a 5 (“definitely yes”), you should be in touch, but if you both rate each other 3, probably not. I should patent that idea.

As for a CBA, yeah I would say it was worth it, since it didn’t cost anything other than time and I did learn a lot about areas I need to improve, in terms of conversation skills (such as showing interest if I have it, and being willing to follow up on it).

Least you put yourself out there tho.

Any positives? you going to actually meet one of your “dates”?