Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
That isn't a valuable metric. Contact info is useless without a date attached to it. Approach to date ratio is the more meaningful metric. Since the process goes approach-date-sex, approach-sex ratio gets influenced by what happens on dates. Approaches turning into dates has a direct relationship.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
Yes, and I agree. @oliver109 asked for that metric though, and I failed at more mobile thinking. Regarding the approach-date metric, it's pretty much non-existent.
Yeah. Personally I found @Jesse Pinkman's link to an article above in this thread very useful on how to improve day game.