OK Cupid Review

Costs:

Membership to OKCupid.com is totally free!

Features:

OKCupid.com is one of the very few dating sites that's totally free to join. Everything is free on OKCupid!
Sign-up to OKCupid and create your own profile and upload your pictures
Perform a search for other members
Browse other members' profiles and look at their pictures for free
Send a woo to another member - this is effectively the same as winking at them. You may only woo 3 people in any 24 hour period.
Email other members using OK Cupid's internal e-mail system
Access up to 30,000 personality tests, created not only by the staff at OKCupid.com, but also by other members at OKCupid! Choose from the main Dating Test, the staff-written tests, and the user-written tests. These tests are many and varied and range from serious personality tests to fun and flirty tests. Why not see how you score against your potential match?
Add members to your favorites list
Block a member from appearing in your search results by clicking on the "Dead to Me" button on their profile.
Compare your profile with another member's profile by clicking on the "Compare Profile" button on their profile page. Your profiles will then be compared against a number of criteria for you to see how well you match each other.
Use the WTF button on any other member's profile to compare match questions with that user. This will further help in establishing how compatible you are, as you will be able to compare your answers with those of your potential match.
Browse a hotlist of members
See who's online now
See who's viewed your profile
Available in English, French and Portuguese
Excellent technical support.

Joining:

Signing up to OKCupid.com is fast and easy and best of all it's totally free! Unlike most other sites, where you initially sign up as a free standard member but are then only given limited access to the features of the site until you upgrade to a paid premium membership, with OKCupid you have complete access to the entire site right from the start. This means that you may view all the member profiles and all member photographs as well as contact the members by internal e-mail as a free member. There are a few other totally free dating sites, however OKCupid.com is the most popular free dating site we've come across.

Performing a Search:

It took us a little while to find the search box on OKCupid - our quest for a link or button marked "search" didn't go as well as it usually does, but we eventually found the search box under the heading "Matches", sub-heading "View Matches".

The search form is fairly basic compared to many other dating sites, but allows you to search by most of the major criteria, including:

Gender (girls looking for guys, guys looking for girls, guys looking for guys, etc.)
Age range
Distance from your location or another specified city, to within 10 miles
Height range
When they were last online
When they joined the site
Religion
Ethnicity
Languages spoken

You may also filter your results by:

Those who have photos only
Those who are single only

And you may sort your results by:

Match %
Friend %
Enemy %
Who's New
Last login
Match & New
Match & Last Login
Match & Distance

Editor's Verdict:

OKCupid.com is a totally free dating site, giving you access to all the features that most dating sites would ask you to pay for, but for free. In fact, OKCupid.com is one of the most popular free online dating sites we've come across. Whilst we don't know exactly how many subscribed members it has, we can tell you that it has 1.7 million unique visitors a month and when we checked it out for the purposes of this review, there were around 4000 other members online from all over the world. Joining is fast and easy, and you can be logged on and searching for your perfect match having only answered the most basic questions about where you live, how old you are and nothing much else. Once you're logged on, you'll be given the opportunity to expand your profile by answering some questions about your personality, upload photos and take any of the 30,000 online tests that are on offer. As a free member to OKCupid, you'll be able to do all the things that most other dating sites require that you pay for, including viewing all the members' profiles, all their photographs, and even contacting members using the internal e-mail tool! There is literally nothing to pay for on OKCupid.com - it is a totally free dating service!

When you view another member's profile you will be able to select various tabs on their profile to view different information about them, including their profile basics, their journal, their pictures, any tests they have taken, and any comments that have been made about them by other members. The profile basics include a section where the member has given themselves various personality awards, ranging from "more kinky" to "more lawful" and everything inbetween. These cartoon-like icons allow you to see at a glance what type of personality the member has. This is an interesting feature that's quite unique to OKCupid.

OKCupid.com is humorously written and the online tests are so varied and amusing as to become quite addictive, however, like most dating sites, OKCupid.com is not without its flaws. We found that despite a simple and logical layout, the site did take a little getting used to. Having reviewed many dating sites, we've become accustomed to various features having certain names. However, on OKCupid.com, these same features often had different names, which threw us a little at the start. For instance, most dating sites allow you to send a wink or a smile to another member, but on OKCupid it's called a woo, as in to woo someone. Many dating sites also allow you to see who's viewed your profile, typically under a heading imaginatively titled "Who's Viewed my Profile" or something similar, but on OKCupid.com, it's under "My Stalkers", which shows more imagination on the part of the authors, but it did take us a minute or two to figure out what that was. Also, we did have to do a bit of hunting about for the search box, which we eventually found under Matches - View Matches. But these points are just minor and once you know where everything is, you'll be fine. From a features point of view, OKCupid has most of the features you would expect of a dating site but not all - as far as we could tell there are no chat rooms on OKCupid.com, which is a major feature of many dating sites, and also there appears to be no online magazine, with useful features and articles on the dating scene, such as are to be found on many of our top-rated dating sites - see our top 10 list here. Having said all that, OKCupid.com is free, so we can't complain and neither can you! It seems to have a fairly large members' database, and a comprehensive search capability, allowing you to easily find potential matches in your local area. The feature that really makes OKCupid stand out from the crowd however is the number of online tests they have, ranging from the "Are you a good driver" test to the "Futurama character similarity" test. Some of the tests are also a bit rude for us to mention here! Did we also mention that OKCupid is totally free?!

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