How to Do Surveys Fast (But Still Legitimately) – Follow this Approach!

Some people who have tried taking paid surveys online will say it is not worth it because it takes too long to do a survey.

Some surveys can also take a long time to complete, but it does not have to take too long to do a survey.

If you do it regularly and with the right approach, it can give you some nice extra cash without spending too much time.

I have taken thousands of paid surveys over the last 7 years and have tested hundreds of survey sites. In this article, I will tell you how to do surveys fast but still do them honestly so you are sure you will still get paid and provide valuable feedback.

Can you be honest and still fast when doing surveys?

It is important to be honest when you are doing surveys, and I always do my best to be that when doing a survey.

After doing thousands of them, I am however also interested in doing them as fast as possible without cheating, and still, making sure to give useful answers.

If you speed through surveys and just choose random answers, it will not help the company doing the research, and you will just end up getting banned.

Also, forget about trying to get a bot to complete surveys for you. There will be security that will detect this very easily.

So I am not talking about a way to cheat or speed through a survey in just a few seconds. I am talking about a legit and effective approach I have developed after having taken thousands of surveys myself.

Below, I will give you a few advice on this approach so it will not be too boring to take surveys:

Tip 1 – Do not overthink and do not overanalyze:

This is, for me, a very important aspect when I do surveys. After doing surveys for a while, you will get to see that many of them have a similar structure and a similar way of asking questions.

That means that especially the basic questions about your demographic info etc. you will be able to answer very quickly.

And in general, you should as mentioned of course be honest, but also not to such an extreme degree that you spend several minutes analyzing and thinking about every single question.

In the beginning, I was thinking too much about the answers I was giving and if it would be the right answer – there are, as such, no right or wrong answers in surveys. Just tell what your initial thought is.

Companies are anyway mostly interested in your initial thoughts and ideas. For example, if you are supposed to give feedback on a TV commercial before it is aired. Then they want to know what your first thoughts are because that will very likely also be the first thoughts of other people as well.

And other people that are not doing a survey and just watching the ad on TV will not sit and analyze it in most cases but just react in a certain way.

So by not overthinking and not overanalyzing, you are, in many cases giving the companies more valuable information, and at the same time, saving yourself a lot of time.

Tip 2 – Be smart:

Even though I am a big supporter of paid surveys and doing them online, I must say that sometimes you will run into surveys that just have too many stupid questions or that keep repeating the same questions.

Luckily it is not that often, but it does happen, and how often it happens depends on which survey sites you are using.

In those cases, I will do one of two things not to waste my time. If I find out at the beginning of a survey and can see that it will just be too long and repetitive, I will simply just leave the survey and find another instead.

If I have already invested some time in a survey before I realize this, I sometimes just decide to not care about my answers and just pick answers as quickly as possible.

This is, of course, not ideal, and it is not something I as such will recommend and not something I do too often. And you should also be aware that surveys often have built-in test questions to see if you are paying attention, so you still have to keep an eye on the questions.

But I have also run into a few surveys that seemed like the company behind had not put any effort into making it user-friendly at all and just kept asking the same questions several times, and then I think it is fair enough to just get it over and done with.

In general, it is, however, better to just choose wisely, and this will come with experience. After taking surveys for a while, you will know what providers have the most user-friendly surveys for you, and then you can just stick to these.

Tip 3 – Be strategic:

By being strategic, I refer to choices you can make in some surveys. There are, for example, often surveys I have done where I, in the beginning, have to indicate how well I know a number of different companies or brands.

In some cases, there might even be 50 companies to choose from. By now, I can most often figure out how that information will affect the rest of the survey.

In some cases, all the companies you select that you have knowledge of will be some you have to answer further questions about. So if I sense that this will be the case, I only select the few I know the very best.

I am still honestly saying which companies or brands I know the best, but I also know that I am not interested in answering further questions about, for example, all 50 of them, even though I might actually know the names of most of them.

So by being strategic, I am just choosing the ones I know the best, and then I know the survey will also only have a fair length. But I will, of course, then answer honestly on questions about the companies I need to answer questions about, but I do just not want to do that about 50 companies.

Tip 4 – Select the right surveys:

The rewards you get for a survey in relation to the time spent can vary quite a bit depending on the site you are using and depending on the specific kinds of surveys you are doing on that site.

Usually, you will be able to see an indication of the time a person, on average, spends on a survey and the reward before you start. Sometimes you can already here decide that a survey is not worth it, and just find one that gives a bit better reward.

But also please remember that there are also other reasons to do surveys than just the cash, even though the money is definitely for most people also an important aspect.

But do not let the estimated time scare you – I am, in most cases, by now able to do the surveys faster than the indicated time while still being honest and answering properly, and sometimes a lot faster. As you get used to answering surveys, you will automatically become faster.

In general, some survey sites also just have surveys with better rewards than others. Which ones the best are can vary depending on the country you live in. In my overview of the best survey sites, you can get an idea about what the different sites have to offer and read further in the reviews of each of them.

This should give you a good start to selecting the right sites from the beginning. But as I said, it can vary from country to country, so it can be a good idea to sign up for several of them and test them out, and see which ones are the best for you.

What does it mean to do a survey fast?

You might, by now, be thinking how fast you can actually do a survey. I will say that it should not be all about the speed.

There are systems in place on most survey sites to notice when people speed through surveys and just pick random answers – and if you do this, you will just get banned, as mentioned earlier.

If you are doing surveys to get rich quickly, you are going in the wrong direction and will probably be disappointed.

But by using some of the approaches I have presented here, it will, in my experience, be fast enough to both provide valuable information to the companies that pay you to do the surveys and also not too boring for you.

Can you be even faster by cheating survey sites?

I know some people are trying to use different software to cheat survey sites and that way make quick money. But this is not an approach I will recommend.

It is too risky to use these kinds of tools as there is a great risk you will be blocked from the survey sites you use them on, and it is also a dishonest way of making money.

Further, I have also not seen any proof that such a tool actually works and is not just a way to get people to buy software. So do not bother to spend your time and money trying to find a solution like this.

Will doing surveys fast make me rich?

I will finish this article by making one thing clear that I try to make clear in most of my articles – you will NOT become rich from doing paid surveys. Even if you are the fastest person on earth to do surveys, or if you found a software that could take all your surveys for you, it will not make you that kind of money.

It can give some nice extra money on the side, but if you are looking to make big money online, you should look in other directions.

In general, one of the most important things to get the most out of survey sites is to join the best sites in your country and do it with the right approach and the right expectations – then it can be a great and free opportunity.

I hope this article has given you a better idea about an approach you can use to do surveys at a reasonable speed, so it will be worth your time and effort.

Please feel free to leave a comment below, if you have any questions. I will get back to you asap.