Woman Tracks Dating App Matches Across the Country in a ‘Man Catalog' (Exclusive)
Caitlin Trask created a "man catalog" to better understand her potential matches across the United States
Once she compiles all her data, she will go to the city with the most potential matches and meet them in person
Her TikTok video of her "man catalog" went viral, amassing 530,000 viewsCaitlin Trask is putting together a dating science experience.
Trask, 32, keeps a spreadsheet of all the men she's matched with on Hinge, tracking things like their age, height, job, and any interesting information shared on their dating profiles.
Trask tells PEOPLE exclusively it's a way to figure out what city has the highest percentage of people she would be compatible with.
The idea was inspired by one of her coworkers, who found her fiancé by going to different states and different countries for a month at a time. She would set her dating apps to that location and go on dates with different men there. Trask decided to give it a shot after struggling to find romantic connections in Denver, where she lives.
Now, Trask sets her dating apps to different cities to see who she can match with, and catalogs them in her spreadsheet. Along with general information about each person, such as their religion and political affiliation, she also indicates whether or not she finds them attractive and their communication style.
'Most guys that I am finding are my usual type, which means they have curly hair, good smiles and interesting prompts in their profile," she says. "Someone who it seems like I could have a fun conversation with is what I'm generally finding.'
As an 'analytical person,' Trask says it's interesting seeing different patterns pop up in her data. One, most notably, is that she's matched with only men over 6 feet 2 inches in Boston, despite her online peers joking that they haven't found any tall men in Massachusetts.
Trask shared her man catalog on TikTok, and the video went viral, amassing over 530,00 views. Most of the reactions to her video have been positive, with many asking her to share her template.
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After gathering enough data, Trask plans to make charts to better understand which city has the highest percentage of people she would be compatible with. She's already tested out the experiment in New York City, Boston, San Diego, and Austin.
'The ultimate goal is to visit the places where I find there seem to be the most single men that I'm aligned with, and visit there and see if anything comes of it,' Trask shares.
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