Some of my background as it relates to to PUA and girls in general:
I'm currently a senior in highschool, and I've had decent success with girls in the past, but nothing too great. Until this past summer, I'd made out with 10 girls, gotten BJ's from 4, but never had sex. I'd been with decent looking chicks, not gross, but not gorgeous either. I wasn't forever alone, or socially awkward, but i wasn't a womanizer either. Though I hadn't had the success with girls that I would have liked, I had some social skills, and definitely had potential. I considered myself to be decent looking (though I feel better about that now, after some confidence boosters and validation from girls), in decent shape (pretty bulky/muscular and wide hips/shoulders, 4 pack, not skinny or fat, doing p90x right now), good at sports (varsity starter in hockey, on the team in lax, will start and captain in both this season, hopefully all-state too), pretty smart though could do better in school (3.5 GPA mostly APs, 4.3 weighted, 2100 SAT, 32 ACT), definitely decently popular with the guys, have some female friends. Basically what I'm trying to say is that I had a decent social life and social skills, and definitely had something to work with, though at the time I hadn't gotten with any gorgeous girls, and not that many girls in general, and i was a virgin.
During my junior year, school and sports started taking up a lot of my time, and I didn't really get out or make much of an effort with girls, and watched porn instead, and got very addicted. I basically convinced myself that going for actual girls wasn't worth my time and energy, and I could just use porn to get off. Eventually, my computer broke, which was a huge blessing in disguise, as i had tried to quit porn in the past, but was never able to. In the absence of porn, I decided I had to satisfy myself somehow, and the only way was to go for actual girls, and ended up making out with two girls, a few times each, in about the last month and a half of my junior year, and they were decently attractive. This was not the level of success I wanted, and it was hard for me to swallow my pride and admit my game sucked. Once i was able to admit this to myself, I decided to help myself, by learning game, and overall bettering myself. This included working out, eating right, getting better at sports, learning to bartend, improving my wardrobe and grooming, and just overall looking much better, cutting out laziness, especially in school, and most importantly, learning PUA. I knew I was signed up to go traveling, with people I'd never met before, for the entire upcoming summer, so I could be who I wanted to be, which was a perfect opportunity to practice everything I had learned about leading up to my trip, so I studied hard from the end of school, for about 2 weeks, until I left for my trip. I get there, and theres two girls who I wouldn't get with (but both were the shit), one who's cute af though seems super innocent and impossible, which drives me crazy, she's also related to someone pretty famous (won't say who for privacy reasons), but this girl also ends up being subtly flirty, and mad cool, then theres another chick who's pretty hot and super down to earth, fun to party with, pretty cool though slutty, the last girl is a drop dead gorgeous model, super popular, seems almost unapproachable, and super proper, but is also insecure. There are three other guys, one who's super low key but hilarious, one who's just a regular dude, but pretty sporty and really smart, was in a LTR, the other was a super interesting kid who seemed to be good at everything, had tons of weird talents, super artsy, really smart, got girls, adults liked him, famous on instagram, but I hadn't talked to him before the trip because i couldn't find him on Facebook. I get paired up to room with the kid who I've never talked with before, and as we're unpacking, I mention the fact that the girls in our group are hot, and i see him toss the book "The Game" on his bed, so I mention PUA to him, and as it turns out, he's been trying to learn too, though he is a bit better with girls than me, at that point. On the first night, me and this dude just click, and he ends up being a great friend, and we talk about everything, including girls and PUA, a ton. That night, we decide to be a team, and wingman for each other at all times, and that we were gonna get with chicks on this trip. We end up gaming them a bit, and we basically had 2 targets, who were best friends on the trip, and so were we, but we hadn't decided. Apparently, they wanted us, and had decided, which made it easier than it would have been. One of them suggests a hotel room party, so we throw one, my friend ends up hooking up with one of the 2 girls, I get a lap dance from the other. That night went well, so we decided to invite them to our room the night after the next. Turns out, the next night, when we go to our hotel room, they were already there... uninvited. Something had worked lmao. We end up hooking up that night, which was the beginning of a weird relationship. We were best friends, they were best friends, we were good friends with the one we weren't getting with, we each had a relationship that was a cross between FWB/dating/good friends, but it was a sort of double dating, and non-exclusive. We would hook up and have sleepovers as much as we logistically could, and just chill during the day. She was always the one texting/snapchatting me first, and suggesting every move, sending pics, whatnot, she was pretty into me. This totally improved my confidence, and showed me that PUA techniques work, and they had gotten me a girl who would have been way outta my league at home, and some other side hookups at clubs, lost my v-card. I felt like I had done pretty well, and had definitely had success and saw the light, though my main mistake was starting to like this girl emotionally, but i also knew I had a ton to learn. I came home excited to learn all there was to learn, and to better myself, knowing that I still had a ton to know, but also ready to enjoy the fruits of my labor more. I'm now at home, way more confident, and have way better skills than I did before, but I also know that this is only the beginning of my journey, so I decided to become a member of this forum, which I read before, to help me along. I'm all ears, but eager to help out if I can boys!

Edit: another thing I wanted to say is just that because I'm a highschool student in a small town, its hard for me to be as reckless as I'd like, and logistics can be a major issue, and so can money, but not as much. This is why my success rate is way higher away from my hometown/school, and I anticipate college and traveling, then working and living in a city, to be very helpful. That said, I don't want to make any excuses.