In today’s wild digital dating world — sitting back and endlessly swiping will only get you so far.
That’s why Caitlin Trask, 32, decided to go the extra mile by creating a “man catalog” to track all the hopeful men she matches with on dating apps — for research.
“Sorry I can’t go out tonight, I have 513 men I have to document in my man catalog,” the hopeless romantic is heard saying in a TikTok video she posted, teasing her method.
Trask is strategic with her dating tactics. Although she lives in Denver, Colorado, she purposely changes her location on the apps to various cities to see which loverboys she will match with.
Once she receives that anticipated notification — she goes into her Excel spreadsheet to add her connection’s age, height, city they live in, job, religion and political stance.
While this sounds like a crazy amount of work that some people would roll their eyes at — Trask told People her reasoning for organizing these potential suitors is to see which city has the highest chances of her finding someone she is compatible with.
“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 told the outlet.
“Someone who it seems like I could have a fun conversation with is what I’m generally finding.”
Clearly, she’s a data girl because she told People that she enjoys analyzing her findings to uncover patterns in her dating preferences — like the fact that her type in Boston, Massachusetts, are guys over 6 feet 2 inches.
“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 said in the interview.
Trask’s research struck a chord with many people online.
“Women in stem collecting data,” joked one commenter.
“I kept a dating/romance diary all of last year and it was SOOOO helpful in being able to go back and know why these men were horrible people lol,” someone chimed in, agreeing with Trask’s extra efforts.
“I lowkey need this,” quipped someone else.
And of course, there were some naysayers.
“We spend way too much time thinking about men. They can’t even be bothered to read our profiles. Enough,” read a comment.
“Major red flag on so many levels btw,” another commenter wrote.
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