I've noticed an inconsistency here as well . I thought perhaps the % was only showing one side . For instance , I thought , perhaps this person , may be 80% of what I'm looking for , but I may be only 20% of what that person is looking for . But even that doesn't seem to hold up .

Huh?

I never get more than a 9% match with anyone.

Hon, it matches against how you answered your profile for interests— so if you said secular atheist and that you want to talk to agnostics, humanists, etc. they get an added %ile in YOUR view. They could say that they don’t want to talk to atheists, only agnostics and have very different criteria.

That and there are so few questions that only gauge one asset. It’s basically useless as a function.

I hope no one ever breaks your heart. It is painful and you do feel it in your heart.

If you visit a profile and click on the heart value, you'll see a breakdown of how it's calculated. It's not terribly indicative of compatibility, but more of a starting place. It just gives you a quick glance at some basic common ground, but you'll still have all your work ahead of you in terms of getting to know one another and determining whether your personalities and values match up.

go figger. I had an 18 year old with a high percentage match

I'm new to the site, so I'm still learning about it. One thing I've noticed though is that I seem to have some very high matches with men who are well outside the age range I indicated I'm interested in. I'm thinking maybe the match algorithms haven't exactly been perfected yet.

I made the same assumption about the percentage. However, there aren’t a lot of questions on which to base the percentage so I consider the figures dubious. Even on dating sites that use a much more detailed matching system, high percentages don’t always indicate a good match. Good luck!