SpeedDater has a rating of 3.06 stars from 86 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with SpeedDater most frequently mention great fun, and new people. SpeedDater ranks 49th among Dating sites.
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Really great people this time. It got VERY loud after though and one girl was clearly very uncomfortable having to shout.
What inadequate people sit on your site, there is nothing positive in them only negativity. I will never get acquainted with anyone through your site again.
First time speed dating and had a surprisingly wonderful time. Would highly recommend SpeedDater. Thanks
Really great people this time. It got VERY loud after though and one girl was clearly very uncomfortable having to shout.
Hi Rebecca,
Thanks for positive feedback. Hope to see you at another event soon!
It would be desirable to have a more narrow age brackets, 22 - 38 it quite wide. The event took a bit too long waiting for each date to be set up (although I appreciate it's tricky with this online set up). Also people held up with the event with their tech issues, they should be dealt with separately while everyone else can get on with their dates. Everything else is good. Great fun. Perfect after 3 months of lockdown.
Hi Roland, thanks for the review! We will forward your comments to our product team. Hope to see you at another event soon!
I really enjoy talking to everyone via virtual speed dating! Great that you split the men and women into different groups - it work much better that way. Maybe if you could try and find more people to take part. Also, maybe if you could organise for us to not just speed date, but also do an activity, such as answer questions together or something? Because it was rather short. Also, if there are only 8 women to see, why not make the date a bit longer - I found they were only maybe 3-4 minutes long. Why not make them 5 minutes therefore?
Hi Bradney, thanks for the review! We will forward your comments to our product team. Hope to see you at another event soon!
Unforeseen circumstances prevented this one from being great. Think the host needed a bigger flow chart :) He tried his best. Besides, an additional minute for each date would be great!
Hi Nathaniel,
Thanks for the review! We will forward your comments to our product team. Hope to see you at another event soon!
Met some fantastic people at the Bristol event last month, matched with a couple of them, all fine. A lot of people on here complaining about fake people turning up to events but everyone seemed genuine and friendly.
The website, however, is a shambles. Full of bots, scammers and randoms, it's basically unusable.
Steve was great, he's a host worth going to another event for. The only reason this isn't 5 stars is because there were some technical teething issues beyond Steve's control. And I think that given the technology factor perhaps it might be worth giving every a little extra time as there were a few times when the lag meant we ran out of time without being able to really know if this is someone worth 'ticking'
Hi Julie,
Thanks for the review! We will forward your comments to our product team. Hope to see you at another event soon!
Best virtual speed dating yet! Claire is a gem! Met a beautiful woman. I hope she ticks me! Would highly recommend
Hi Freeman,
Thanks for the review! We are really happy to hear you enjoyed your event. Hope you found your soulmate!
The actual speeddating night was ok and to be expected, but when you get a match and you submit your ticks, you have to carry on messaging your matches through the website? Why cant you just get a mobile number of your matches, i know, so they can grab more money off you!
Its a con because if your 1 month subscription runs out before you get to the point of asking for a phone number, you cant carry on messaging your match unless you pay for another month? I also don't like the fact that you have to sign up to internet dating when you've signed up for speed dating?
It just feels very messy, i wont use them again.
4 stars, only because I felt bad for the ladies as they didn't get enough men to talk to. Steve was fantastic and did really well keeping everyone entertained.
Hi Schmidt,
Thanks for positive feedback. The hosts do a really good job at making the night fun and relaxed. Hope to see you at another event soon!
The event was well organised but, only 7 women attended because some did not turn up on the night, the host dealt with this well but it meant that there was some waiting around and not many women to choose from.
Thanks for your positive feedback! Sometimes people buy tickets and don't come to events due to personal reasons. We always try to do our best to keep such situations as few as possible. Hope to see you at another event soon!
The event ended up being more men to women ratio, but was told by the organiser that we will be given a free ticket to attend another event in any location we wanted to go.
Hi Susan,
Thanks for your positive feedback. We will work even harder to get to the 5th star!
I had fun! Mat was great, worked well with Zoom and break out rooms. Well organised and good use of technology to create a virtual event.
Hi Franny,
Thanks for positive feedback. The hosts do a really good job at making the night fun and relaxed. Hope to see you at another event soon!
Probably 3.5 stars. It was my first event and if a greater percentage of the ladies had turned up it would have been more. On the plus side the people that were there were very chatty and friendly... and the next one is free.
Hi Luther,
Thanks for your feedback! Sometimes people buy tickets and don't come to events due to personal reasons. We always try to do our best to keep such situations as few as possible. Hope to see you at another event soon!
Too few people and I met one of them on here before. Would be much better to let us know in advance if we will be meeting the same people so that we can rebook to another event or receive a refund.
Hi Stella,
Thanks for your positive feedback. We will work even harder to get to the 5th star!
We could have spent 5-6, minutes per person as not all attendees showed up. Liked the pub and friendly staff, liked the attendees who did show!
Hi Joyce,
Thanks for your positive feedback! We will pass on your comments to our event management team. Hope to see you at another event soon!
Event was well organised and attended. My friends and I had a great laugh. Thanks for organising this event
Hi Frank,
Thanks for posting such lovely feedback! Hope to see you at another event soon!
Generally enjoyable and it's nice to have the drink demo. It was a shame that so few women attended and that there were so many connection issues. Not Speeddater's fault.
Hi Evyn, thanks for the review! Sometimes users do not come to the virtual events even though they bought tickets, so the number of participants may be small. We will do our best to avoid such situations in the future. Hope to see you at another event soon!
It was a great fun with good people attending, but I feel slightly less positively about the number of people in the event (11 people, incl. Myself vs. 20+ in an in-person dating event I attended last year). Would be good to at least have 12-15 dates to feel value for money. Also should have more than 15 seconds count down, especially as there was some lags.
Hi Kelly,
Thanks for positive feedback. We try to gather as many people as possible at one event, but due to the COVID pandemic, many difficulties arise. We will pass on your wishes to our technical team and will try our best to improve our virtual events.
It was well organised, but the registration/ice breaker part at the beginning of virtual event could have been more chatty and welcoming. Yeah to a degree, I think doing online events is always going to be tricky, I was hoping to stick around for a talk with the members I wanted to speak to, but I saw it being difficult, as you would have several people talking over each other. Be Good if you could all get a choice of rooms to join into after the 5min dates! Overall I enjoyed it!
Hi Jed, thanks for the review! We are really happy to hear you enjoyed your event! We will definitely pass on your wishes to our technical team. Hope to see you at another event soon.
I think it could have been organised more effectively though by making sure that everybody was sent the zoom link before the event.
Hi Cello, thanks for the review! We will forward your comments to our technical team. Hope to see you at another event soon!=)
Extremely well organised and fantastic host who reassured guests. Would highly recommend SpeedDater!
Hi Felicia,
Thanks for posting such lovely feedback! The hosts do a really good job at making the night fun and relaxed. We hope you enjoy your next event with us :)
Fantastic, prompt date rotation. The host Steve was very professional and interacted very well with all the participants. Had a great time would like it to do it again sometime in the future. That's if I don't get a match from the first event thoroughly enjoyed every second! Thank you for putting this great event together
Hi Douglas, thanks for the review! The hosts do a really good job at making the night fun and relaxed. Hope to see you at another event soon!
Lots of fun, great mix of people and well attended. It was really good and not too overwhelming by having too many people; 6 males and 6 females were good enough. Enjoyed the virtual event more than I expected, and appreciated the chance to talk with some of the attendees after the main experience was over.
Hi Ely, thanks for the review! We are really happy to hear you enjoyed your event! Hope to see you at another one soon.
At SpeedDater, we believe that chemistry happens only in person. You will never know if you’re truly compatible with someone until you meet face to face. This is what Speed Dating is all about. We offer busy professionals a great way to meet new people in a fun, safe and chilled environment. All that is required of you is a smile and an open mind, we will take care of the rest!
We were the first singles events site to launch in the UK, way back in 2002. Gosh, that makes us feel old! But with age comes wisdom and we are proud to have more experience running successful events than any other site. We've run over 10,400 events and introduced over 306,000 singles... WOW!
With competitors soon popping up and replicating our event formats, we established ourselves as the market leader in the sector by providing the biggest and best events in the UK's most stylish venues. We started in London and never looked back - SpeedDater now runs up to 70 events every month in 24 UK cities. We have more events, attendees and matches than ANY other site (by a long way!).
Our massive singles parties have become a firm favourite in the schedule, with around 250 eligible singles getting involved at each event. We also lead the industry in unique and niche events such as elite professionals, graduate professionals, older women for younger men, older men for younger women, Christian dating, wine tasting, quiz nights, cookery classes and more. You might see similar events elsewhere but never forget that you saw them here first!
Hi Thomas,
Thank you for your review - it's great to hear that guests have enjoyed their events. Hopefully see you soon!