I've been chatting with this chick on hinge and we've had a back and forth going with 1-2 days between messages. I responded to a prompt where she asked for advice on "chocolate or the stock market".

Me: 10x calls on chocolate

Her: blah blah blah what type of chocolate?

Me: 100% pure columbian cocoa

Her: Is that the kind you go for at the grocery store?

Me: I don't know what type of grocery store you're going to

Her: I love dark chocolate but my sweet spot is 73 or 77 percent. I never buy the 100% one

Me: You're too fancy for me

After this, she went cold for 2-3 days so I figured it was another dead chat but she responded yesterday with ":("

I know the medium is the message so if she is bothering responding then she's still interested. I've experimented with a lot conversation lines on Hinge, but it feels like since my profile and conversations aren't too fuckboy, I can't just jump the gun for an invite, so I have to spread it out across 5-10 messages on my side to escalate to a meetup.

My question is twofold:

  1. Is there a certain pace that is optimal on Hinge? I've noticed that on tinder you really need to push for the meetup ASAP or else another chad will just swoop in and you're just another face in the seas of cock that the average girl is being bombarded with, but on Hinge the girls are a lot more responsive and you can actually build a tiny bit of rapport off of your open so you can escalate to the number/date.
  2. What should I respond with here? Should I continue with the tease and draw this out, or should I go for the kill and set up the date? This chick is definitely at least an HB8-9, she's done some modeling and has been on the front page for some local magazines, so I figure me not simping and actually calling her out has sparked her curiosity, so I've got that going for me.

Thanks for reading through this whole wall of text, but this chick is definitely in the top of the chicks I can match with online, so I actually care about not fucking this one up.