Which is harder

poker_face · 20-12-2005 4:08pm #1

Hopefully this will start a lively debate.

Which is harder, a snooker's 147 or a dart's 9 dart finish.

p.s. mods: please dont move me as i dont really fit in either the snooker or darts forums and no one checks the sports forum.

xzanti · 20-12-2005 4:10pm

If I had any idea what you were on about I might try and take a stab at it

whiskeyman · 20-12-2005 4:20pm

depends how talented you are at both sports...

finlma · 20-12-2005 4:24pm

poker_face wrote:

Hopefully this will start a lively debate.

I think you're being a tad optimistic there buddy - not likely to get many people's pulses running.

That said a 147 is harder.

Kersh · 20-12-2005 4:29pm

Defo a 147, having to get back on the black for each red without making a kock of it.... plus it takes longer, so the concentration has got to be spot on.

dango · 20-12-2005 4:37pm

All i have got to say is, how many televised 9 darters have you seen Vs. how many 147s?
If these guys are at the tops of the their games then it is clear which is harder to do...

Oriel · 20-12-2005 4:38pm

147, easily.

Peteee · 20-12-2005 4:48pm

147 is way harder

Catsmokinpot · 20-12-2005 4:54pm

if a 9 dart finish was harder, all the darts players would be changing profession because of the money they would be making from getting all those 147s

chern0byl · 20-12-2005 4:57pm

Is darts really a sport? ...get that de'bate' going

Gurgle · 20-12-2005 5:01pm

chern0byl wrote:

Is darts really a sport? ...get that de'bate' going

Is snooker?

Catsmokinpot · 20-12-2005 5:03pm

Gurgle wrote:

Is snooker?

no its an artform

StupidLikeAFox · 20-12-2005 6:28pm

Depends how many pints you've drank...

OFDM · 20-12-2005 7:18pm

With a thread title like "which is harder" I thought this was going to be about something completely different.

20-12-2005 7:21pm

OFDM wrote:

With a thread title like "which is harder" I thought this was going to be about something completely different.

so?

Supercell · 20-12-2005 7:21pm

How many 147's have i seen..loads..how many 9 dart finishes..1 ..
My unscientific survey says 147 is for girls and a 9 darter is the stuff real men (who drink 16 pints of beer for breakfast to wash down their corn flakes..etc) are made of.

Niall123 · 20-12-2005 7:53pm

What are they?

Mr.Nice Guy · 20-12-2005 8:20pm

A 9 dart finish is way harder. Only one has been done live as far as I know and that was Phil 'The Power' Taylor. I happened to see it live on Sky and I was amazed!

A 147 is incredibly tough but many have been done live.

It's easier to pot a ball in a pocket than to throw a dart in the right bed you want I would say.

Wertz · 20-12-2005 8:39pm

147 hands down.

I've played a guy that threw an 11 dart finish against me, and I've seen Phil Taylor check out with 9 darts in a local exhibition match.

I've never seen a break of over a ton and I used to go to a lot of amateur snooker matches...

RoundyMooney · 20-12-2005 8:42pm

A 147 I would imagine. When you're used to pool playing, a snooker table seems as big as Old Trafford...

Wertz · 20-12-2005 8:48pm

On law of averages alone, 147 is far in the lead...8 trebles and a double in the right place and in sucession as opposed to 30 red/black combos and the positional shots in between, and then going on to clear the colours?
That law of averages says that 9 in a row is a lot more likely to happen than 36 in a row.

Also the reason you don't see as many 9 dart finishes as opposed to 147s is that snooker is alot more televised...I know darts is catching up the last few years though...

**Timbuk2** · 20-12-2005 8:50pm

147 is way harder, easily

21-12-2005 2:19am

147 would be much harder!you should make a pole!

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