World's Best Flirting Lines: Badoo Compliment Success Index (PHOTOS)

Single men needing a little help in the romance department might want to try praising a woman on her lips, a new survey has found.

In a new poll that seems to have been lifted out of a Sex and the City episode, online dating site Badoo claims to have found what they call "the Holy Grail" of international dating. And the poll found that complimenting a woman on her lips was the world's best pick-up line, working astonishingly well on women from all of the surveyed backgrounds.

The site, which has 87 million registered users, reportedly analyzed the success rates of opening lines from nearly 200,000 online flirtations in 11 languages for the Compliment Success Index. Users were invited to use one of 12 different ice-breakers, each complimenting a woman on an aspect of her body or appearance. Success was determined by the woman's response and whether or not a subsequent conversation was launched.

Next time you're on a date with a Portuguese woman, compliment her on her ears. Though if your next love interest is German or Canadian, concentrate on her skin.

View the results of the Compliment Survey Index here:

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[Pilatunes]

08:26 PM on 12/22/2010

How about "I may not look like much now, but wait'll you see me when you're drunk."

[doublehelix68]

10:16 PM on 12/21/2010

I always thought a nice compliment on a woman's feet, shoes, nails, etc was a good line.

[ramsha]

12:05 PM on 12/19/2010

I think this statement is a gross under estimation of the fair sex. More and more you can see that the modern women are very perceptive, and that they can almost all the time, tell whether the compliments paid to them by a suitor is sincere or phony.

[LibertyRoy]

01:27 PM on 12/19/2010

Not if the woman is insincere or phony. Hahaha!

[PoliticalPaige1]

10:25 AM on 12/18/2010

wow. what a Euro/Ameri-centric list.

[LibertyRoy]

01:27 PM on 12/19/2010

Am I supposto care what works is Uganda?

[GBPackerfan]

12:06 AM on 12/18/2010

Are those Angelina's lips? Nice pock marks.

[Blackorpheus]

11:40 PM on 12/17/2010

And if your date happens to be Venusian, compliment her on her glutes

[Flowshow89]

10:01 PM on 12/17/2010

If you were a President, your name would be Babe-raham Lincoln ;)

[R Davis]

09:54 PM on 12/17/2010

I've been married 28 years and my experience has been women respond best to a sincere interest in them as a person. The challenge is most men trying to pick up women are challenged by the concept of sincerity.

[JeffreyGold]

04:44 AM on 12/18/2010

:-) I got a good laugh from this one. So right. Thank you.

[Kris Gorshkov]

11:34 AM on 12/18/2010

Groucho Marx had it nailed: "The secret to success is sincerity, once you can fake that everything is easy".

[condor101]

10:30 AM on 12/19/2010

awesome.

[kidsumers]

09:43 PM on 12/17/2010

I don't think a compliment about my lips would do it, but I am Canadian and the skin thing might work.

[Blackorpheus]

11:43 PM on 12/17/2010

Votre peau, Mme--c'est formidable.

[Paul Sta]

09:43 PM on 12/17/2010

Actually say hello, "how was your day?" most women will definitely have something to say.

[3daywkend]

09:16 PM on 12/17/2010

"nice rack"

[HeyMacaroni]

02:33 AM on 12/18/2010

Attributed to Carly Fiorina when she was CEO of HP, circa 2003:

'The only people I hear say Moore's Law or R&D is overrated are those that don't want to keep up or can't keep up,' she said. 'A nice rack will only get you so far.'

[ben616]

09:06 PM on 12/17/2010

"You want some more money?"

[I Fought Piranhas]

08:50 PM on 12/17/2010

Excuse me, did you get a ticket today? ...because you have fine written all over you!

[AnonymousDissenter]

08:39 PM on 12/17/2010

That's weird. I'd never thought about it, but yeah, the lips thing is right. I remember one of my good friends, a master chef, once told me I had Angelina Jolie lips and though I don't think he was flirting, and I would never have pursued it in any case because he's married and his wife is a lovely person, I have never forgotten how good that compliment made me feel. To this day, years later, it still makes me feel happy that he thought that.

Not sure how well it would work for a "pick up" line though. It would be weird to have someone I didn't know tell me that. And now that I've read this, it may have ruined the effect somewhat.

[triplettam]

08:36 PM on 12/17/2010

Again, these are not lines, they are subjects.