Imagine two lists of two-dimensional coordinates: listA = RandomReal[{0,100},{202,2}]; listB = RandomReal[{0,100},{97,2}]; I'm attempting to quickly generate a new series of lists, `outputListA` and `outputListB` consisting of the set of points in `listA` and `listB`, respectively, that are within some Euclidean distance $D$ of a point in a list for which they are not a member (i.e. points in `listA` that are at most a distance `distCut` from at least one point in `listB` and vice versa). This isn't the right way to do things (it takes $\approx 88$ milliseconds for sizes of `listA` and `listB` shown), but it hopefully illustrates what I'm trying to do: listA = RandomReal[{0, 100}, {202, 2}]; listB = RandomReal[{0, 100}, {97, 2}]; outputList = {}; distCut = 1; For[x = 1, x <= Length[listA], x++, For[y = 1, y <= Length[listB], y++, If[EuclideanDistance[listA[[x]], listB[[y]]] <= distCut, outputList = Append[outputList, {listA[[x]], listB[[y]]}]; ]; ]; ]; outputListA = Intersection[outputList[[All, 1]], outputList[[All, 1]]]; outputListB = Intersection[outputList[[All, 2]], outputList[[All, 2]]]; Length[outputListA] Length[outputListB] A smarter way to proceed might be to round values in `listA` and `listB` to a multiple of `distCut`, and then check for values in the rounded lists that are equal. However, I can't think of a good way to do this that avoids unnecessary attrition / misses points.