I suck at texting. Going to bars and getting numbers is easy enough. I'm not cleaning up but I can usually get a couple numbers in a night. That's always where it ends.

My problem is I have no goal in mind. I know most people say to use texting as a tool to set up face to face. But it doesn't matter because I'm rarely getting past the introduction. I'm just trying to have fun and say something stupid or what I think is funny hoping she'll just play along. This is bad for tinder especially. Im terrible with getting my foot in the door with text conversations. So should I just keep striking out in hopes someone will just get my humor and play along some day or should I change it up. If so how?

Just for reference I'm in college, average enough looking guy I guess. Never had anything one could really consider success on tinder or at bars other than the occasional fling which are few & far between. I'm running and not trying to stress it, but it would be cool to get a little higher success rate than what I'm at.