I'm curious if anyone here has had any experience with speed dating and if so, what you thought of it.

There is an event in my city next month and one of my Meetup groups has made an event of it. I'm not actively searching for a relationship, but I am single and I've never done the speed dating thing before. Part of me is like, "Hey, it's $5. Why not?" The other part of me (the awkward, socially challenged part) feels that I'll stumble through six minutes, make a fool of myself, and just feel badly at the end of the night (I know, how's that for self confidence?) Small talk doesn't thrill me in the first place and this is based on small talk. But you gotta live a little, right?

Anyway, what have you all experienced?