haha picking up girls is 99% of the time sooooo freaking simple, guys are just stupid. the only thing I can tell you is to BE CONFIDENT. (Note: there is a HUGE difference between confidence and cockiness).
Here's one way of pick-up art I've found to be successful: If you're with your friends, and you're sitting closely to some girls you wanna pick up, whether it be at a restaurant, a movie theater (before the movie starts), or any other social gathering, simply start a casual debate with your friends (somewhat loudly) and eventually bring them into it. Example (this happened literally yesterday):
Me and two friends sit down to eat at a restaurant. not long after we're seated, two somewhat attractive females are seated at the table directly to the right of ours. I smile to my friends and raise an eyebrow (the signal) to which they give a subtle nod, and I can't help but notice that they continually glance in our direction. I wait a few minutes then loudly say to my friends "I have a question for you guys (and before I had even said "you guys" both girls were already fully looking over). I continued, "do you think that a girl would find an average looking guy to be more attractive simply because he had an accent?" we debated briefly and both of my friends finally said "I think it probably depends, on like the accent and stuff". At this moment, our waitress had walked over, at which could be considered nothing less than perfect timing. I said loudly "well let's ask the waitress!" I asked her the question and she thought for a moment then said "yes. definitely". The girls at the other table were fully turned in their seats towards us, smiling and intrigued by the conversation. Without me even inviting them into the discussion, one of them piped up and said "it's also a huge plus if their an athlete!" I whipped around in my chair, the waitress walked off, and I immediately dove deeper into the debate with the two girls across from us. After the decisions had been made, and all the exceptions ironed out, I WOULD HAVE turned the conversation into "so what are your plans after dinner tonight?" and sealed the deal on some phone number exchange, but alas, I did not. Why? Two reasons: 1. After I talked with them I realized they weren't as cute as I thought they were originally and I actually found them to be slightly annoying. 2. We already had plans that night with much more attractive women, which had a higher prospective percentage of getting some action. We'll save that for another story at another time
After reading what I just wrote, to make sure it was all clear and what not, I decided I should make a "Chase Adams' Pick-Up/Dating Thread" haha. Think it'd be kinda funny.