If someone said to you that they were planning on going speed dating, what would your reaction be?

In the past, I probably would have been surprised, hysterically laughing or asking why – but at a time when people are lining up to ditch dating apps and meet people IRL, speed dating is having a bit of a resurgence.

You only have to look at dating apps like Thursday – which has successfully brought an IRL element to the process with their weekly in-person events – and the growing resistance to online dating to see that meeting someone in person is a highly coveted rarity.

And with speed dating becoming en vogue again, we could be experiencing a renaissance in IRL dating, with people putting themselves forward quite literally. But there’s another dating app that has taken notice of this and is getting in on the trend in a virtual capacity.

Dating in 2022: Bumble is testing a speed dating feature for some of its users