Context:

33 year old white male. 6'2", 250 pounds. My profession is a solid middle-but-not-upper class, and my income is roughly the 85th percentile for my city. My city has less than a million but more than half a million residents. Sex ratio is closer to NYC than SF.

Willing to answer questions about my mate value in the comments but not ready to de-anonymize myself.

Counting method

Count will start from zero and iterate up for each woman I cold approach. Option will resolve when

• I go on a date with a woman that I met through cold approach OR

• A woman I cold approach declines my advances, but introduces me to another woman that I go on a date with

Dates with the following women will not resolve this option (because they make the challenge too easy):

• Women I meet online

• Women who initiate contact with me

• Women that I meet from personal ads or paid matchmakers

• Women I meet at speed dating or singles events

• Women I meet abroad

• Women that my friends or family set me up with

• Women that were part of my work or social circles and got upgraded to girlfriend

• Dates with the woman I am currently in a casual relationship with (I've told her I am looking at other people, and that I don't see long-term potential)

My goal is to get a girlfriend the hard way. To that end, I am delibrately choosing to avoid dating women through any of "easy" methods listed. However I cannot guarentee that I won't chicken out and settle on a woman that I met through an "easy" method.

If I do go on a date with a woman I meet through an easy method, option will remain open through through the deadline and continue to iterate upwards for each cold approach I do. Also, you will be within your rights to shame me as a pushover who can't commit to anything difficult.

Resolution:

• If I go on a date with a woman I met through cold approach, option will resolve with however many women I cold approached while the option was active.

• This option's value is capped at 99. If I make more than 99 approaches, I will try to find some way to increase the cap, else option will resolve at 99.

• If after one year I have not dated any women that I met through cold approach, option with resolve as n/a.