Your match spots your fake smile in 33 milliseconds. Here's the science.
Test Your Smile Free →Your brain processes smiles in 33 milliseconds - faster than conscious thought.
When you see a photo on a dating app, you do not think "fake smile." You just feel something is off and swipe left. It is evolutionary - humans needed to detect fake friendliness for survival.
Score: 70-95/100
Score: 15-35/100
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People spend an average of 2-3 seconds looking at your profile before swiping. Your main photo smile is processed in 33 milliseconds. If it reads as "fake," instant left swipe.
Evolutionary psychology: Fake smiles triggered "this person is hiding something" signals. Your match does not consciously think this, but their brain does. Result: Left swipe.
Photos with genuine smiles (60+ score) get 27% more matches than forced smiles (under 40 score). Same person, different photo, completely different results.
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Test My Smile Free →Not really. The orbicularis oculi muscle (eye crinkles) is very difficult to control voluntarily. You can try, but it usually still looks off. The only way to get a genuine Duchenne smile is to actually be happy.
Ask friends "does this look like me?" or use our AI analyzer. If your photo scores under 40, it probably looks forced. Candid photos while genuinely laughing score 70-90.
Because you are forcing a smile while holding your phone. It is very hard to smile genuinely when you are focused on taking the photo. Solution: Have someone else take the photo while you are actually laughing at something.
Hit or miss. Some photographers are great at making you genuinely laugh (good). Others just say "smile!" and you force it (bad). Candid iPhone photos while genuinely happy often beat $300 photoshoots.