Speed Dating Questions

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Speed Dating Questions
Chances are that you will be nervous before you even speak to the first person and that is only natural. You are going to meet quite a few people who you have never met before and it can be rather nerve wracking. Your best bet will be to go to the event as well prepared as possible. Know the questions that you want to ask to each of the people that you meet. You should write your questions down on a card just in case you forget them. Try not to look at the card often but for your first few sessions it may help you to feel better to have the questions you want to ask in front of you.

Remember that you too will be asked a wide array of questions throughout the night, so take some time the night before the event to consider what some of your answers will be when asked. Common questions are your favorites like color, food, movie or book. If you can have some of these answers already planned it will help put you at ease as the night goes on. Pick your outfit out the night before also, so that you can easily get yourself dressed and ready to go without being late to the speed dating event. Be sure to dress yourself nice because statistics show that when speed dating people usually make their decision in the first three minutes.

Know What Is Important

Before you start making your list of question, you should ask yourself what is important to you. Your time is limited to about five or ten minutes and half of that time will be your partner asking you questions, so you really have to hit on your most important questions early on. Think hard about if there is anything about someone that would make you absolutely not want to date them. Maybe you don’t want to date someone with children, someone without a job or someone of a different religion.

If any particular characteristics are important to you than be sure to put them on your list of questions. There is no reason to waste anyone’s time if you are not going to be interested in the end. This is a very safe environment for you to ask these types of questions and then you will know right away before wasting any time. The best thing is that if someone isn’t right for you, you don’t have to do any explaining to them, they simply won’t receive any of your information. This is a very safe way to meet potential dates.

Start With the Basics

Your first set of question should be just the basic questions like name, age, job and where they live. These questions can be used as ice breakers, to help you quickly get more comfortable with each other before getting into any serious questions. Since you don’t have much time, these basic question will need to be limited to just a few or you will never have time to get to the more important questions. Your time will fly by quicker than you could image and if you waste your time on too many of the basic questions your time may run out before you really have a chance to know your potential match.

If right from the beginning you can tell that the partner you are matched with is not for you, continue to be polite and ask the typical questions until your time runs out. The good thing is that even if you are not a match with everyone you meet, you will only have to be with them for at the most ten minutes and not an entire date. This is one of the benefits that most people really like about speed dating.

Questions About Their Character

After the several basic questions have been asked, you can now move on to the more serious questions meant to help you get to know the character of the person. Here is where you can ask questions about their likes and dislikes, their type of music, what kind of vacations they like to go on or what they do for fun. These questions should help you get to know if the two of you have any chance of being compatible. You certainly will not have the chance to see if you two are a perfect match because you will need more than ten minutes for that but you will be able to find a few partners that you feel you have a lot in common with and want to get to know better.

Making Your Selection

By the end of the event, you will need to select the people that you are interested in getting to know better. This can be a difficult choice but you should be able to pick at least one or two matches. These should be people that you felt a connection with and ones that answered your questions to your satisfaction. For the company holding the event to match the two of you, both of you have to select each other, so you will go away from the event not knowing who selected you. Within a few days they will give you the list of matches and you will be able to set dates up from that point. Remember to have fun, even if you do not get to find your mister or misses on the night you will still meet a lot of fascinating people. Finally, be sure to plan your first few dates in public places just until you get to know your date a little better.