Girl randomly takes too long to reply some days but quick on others

Hi guys

please excuse the bad english - i am typing this quickly while at work

I hope i have come to the right place :I

So i talk to this girl and we click theres no doubt about it. shes cool and she does take an interest in me too and clearly wants to get to know me more. She even tells me things like it would be cool to hang out etc. it's definitely not one sided interest. shes complimented my looks too so she comes across like shes interested. i do find her attractive too but i never wanted was interested in her like that until i got to know her a bit.

I should add she lives a couple hours away so this isnt someone who i see on a day to day but rather every now and then at events and stuff. i thought we had a connection so i asked for her number one day and she said shes glad i asked

the problem im having is in the past few weeks shes been acting weird. sometimes she delibretely waits 1 hour to reply to a message. sometimes she waits hours and me being me i just assume they're not wanting to talk

the thing with this girl is randomly she starts messaging quickly again and we have lengthy conversations and its like when we first started... and then literally the next day it's off again

sometimes i know shes free but still takes her time. but i get so confused because if youre not wanting anything then why does she start the conversations sometimes for example. sometimes i choose not to continue the conversation but then randomly she starts another one next day or next couple days and then immediately goes back to her old habits of taking ages to reply.

this is pathetic but she kinda affects the flow of my day when shes taking her time. some days i think about her a lot and i really dont want to anymore. i kinda want to end whatever youd call this but regardless, we kinda are connected because of our circles.

getting completely over her is gonna be hard i wont lie but i dont to play these games. I dont really know what she's getting from this but i dont want to entertain it any further

theres been a couple times where i say im done thats it but then she messages and i think oh maybe there is something here

The distance thing is a bit of an issue because i know i need to be 100% before we make the next step. shes giving me a bad feeling that this isnt worth it

this is really affecting me, im either really happy and excited or im really down and anxious. ive had enough of this rollercoaster. how do i get off without actually blocking her

Please do share your own stories if you had similar things and what you ended up doing