Practice Game

ComfortKid · 04-02-2015 09:29AM #1

Right lads have a game I've been playing the last few days to improve your scoring. It's really helped me. Hit lots of 180s + 140s since I started. Maybe we could put our scores up here to watch the improvement. Basically you just throw 100 darts at 20s. A treble scores 3. A double scores 2 and a single 20 scores 1. My best is 102 but im usually somewhere around the 80 mark. Can play on 19s or 18s if you like. Same scoring.
Game on.

gramar · 04-02-2015 02:56PM

ComfortKid wrote: »

Right lads have a game I've been playing the last few days to improve your scoring. It's really helped me. Hit lots of 180s + 140s since I started. Maybe we could put our scores up here to watch the improvement. Basically you just throw 100 darts at 20s. A treble scores 3. A double scores 2 and a single 20 scores 1. My best is 102 but im usually somewhere around the 80 mark. Can play on 19s or 18s if you like. Same scoring.
Game on.

Wait a month or two...too cold in the garage! Hands are so cold I wouldn't hit the board with a box!

ComfortKid · 04-02-2015 04:02PM

gramar wrote:

Wait a month or two...too cold in the garage! Hands are so cold I wouldn't hit the board with a box!

Haha. Alot of people on here seem to be playing in the shed. I built myself a little portable stand for my board, handy out!

gramar · 04-02-2015 04:12PM

ComfortKid wrote: »

Haha. Alot of people on here seem to be playing in the shed. I built myself a little portable stand for my board, handy out!

I might try and negotiate getting the board inside, there's room upstairs but any pockmarks on the floor or wall and there'll be trouble!

ComfortKid · 04-02-2015 04:26PM

Ya you'd need some kind of mat or something for the floor anyway. Good thing about the shed is you can play at night. I'm not allowed throw once the child is in bed :-(

gramar · 04-02-2015 04:37PM

ComfortKid wrote: »

Ya you'd need some kind of mat or something for the floor anyway. Good thing about the shed is you can play at night. I'm not allowed throw once the child is in bed :-(

I suppose if I had it in a cabinet and a mat then I might have more bargaining power. I have two boards in the garage both of which are fairly knackered so it might just be the time!

Iron Hide · 04-02-2015 06:04PM

gramar wrote: »

I suppose if I had it in a cabinet and a mat then I might have more bargaining power. I have two boards in the garage both of which are fairly knackered so it might just be the time!

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/9057913/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CSports%2Band%2Bleisure%7C14419152/c_2/3%7C19536186%7CDarts%7C14419345/c_3/4%7Ccat_14419345%7CDart%2Bboards%2Band%2Bdarts%2Bcabinets%7C14419348/Trail/searchtext%3EDARTS.htm

20% off a mat combined with this too, all in for about 80 bucks board looks ok

ComfortKid · 04-02-2015 06:10PM

Look up 'DartMate' Big enough to stop stray darts hitting walls and also no drilling needed

Devastator · 04-02-2015 07:53PM

gramar wrote: »

I suppose if I had it in a cabinet and a mat then I might have more bargaining power. I have two boards in the garage both of which are fairly knackered so it might just be the time!

I was in sports direct last week and they had Barney board/cabinet for about £30 I think.

Jarjohn · 05-02-2015 09:47PM

92 first go and 92 the second go. Consistent I suppose

ComfortKid · 05-02-2015 11:36PM

Jarjohn wrote:

92 first go and 92 the second go. Consistent I suppose ï¿¼

Haha. Great darts though, fair play. I found it improves my scoring alot. I play it 2 or 3 times to warm up before a match

Potential Underachiever · 07-02-2015 01:52PM

Might have a crack at this later, looks good.

mykillokneel · 07-02-2015 05:24PM

Tried it there first go 91 second 97. Good game I'm guessing 100 is a good score, trying to match scores with darts thrown. 2 flyers to tops helped also!!!

Potential Underachiever · 07-02-2015 08:11PM

Decided to have a go whilst waiting on a chinese delivery, bad idea. I'm blaming hunger for an abject display and only 72 total, I guarantee I will beat that no probs with a bit of grub inside me!

Potential Underachiever · 07-02-2015 10:45PM

Potential Underachiever wrote: »

Decided to have a go whilst waiting on a chinese delivery, bad idea. I'm blaming hunger for an abject display and only 72 total, I guarantee I will beat that no probs with a bit of grub inside me!

Too full to bother with this tonight now! On the back burner !

tim63 · 07-02-2015 11:03PM

thats a good one.....

robman60 · 08-02-2015 12:14PM

Potential Underachiever wrote: »

Too full to bother with this tonight now! On the back burner !

Completely off-topic, but you remind me of a story my grandfather used to tell. A traveller man was being employed for the day to pick potatoes by a Galway farmer. Not two hours in the farmer notices that the traveller is hopeless and he asks him why he's so bad. The traveller replies "An empty sack can't stand upright sir".

Eager to get the job done the farmer brings the traveller in to his house and gives him a fine feed. When they go back out picking potatoes the farmer notices that the man was still slow. The farmer says "You were telling me an empty sack can't stand upright but I have you the finest feed and you're still not working hard enough. The traveller replies "Aye sir, an empty sack can't stand upright, but nor can a full one bend!"

Yeah sorry for the completely off-topic post.

Potential Underachiever · 09-02-2015 02:46PM

Ha, just saw the above post now, very appropriate!

I have tried this 3 times since, twice yesterday 82 & 87 and just finished it now and got 90, It's improving as I go along, I'm throwing too many strays! 100 would be a fairly decent score!

ComfortKid · 09-02-2015 03:23PM

Potential Underachiever wrote:

I have tried this 3 times since, twice yesterday 82 & 87 and just finished it now and got 90, It's improving as I go along, I'm throwing too many strays! 100 would be a fairly decent score!

Very hard get 100. I got it once and haven't got over the 90 since. Playing it nearly all day every day. My brother got 112 so im not going to stop untill I beat it! Seen on a darts forum I do be on,fellas geting 130,Should be playing on the tv at that rate

Potential Underachiever · 09-02-2015 03:46PM

To be on a pro level you'd need to be averaging 100 pts per 3 darts, so by my maths I make it you would need to hit 5 x 20's for every visit on average, and with 33 visits plus one dart ( for 100 darts) that would mean your score would be 165 to keep pace with the big boys! Obviously I'll never get anywhere near that, if I could I'd be going pro and unfortunately I'm nowhere near good enough!

gramar · 09-02-2015 04:02PM

Potential Underachiever wrote: »

To be on a pro level you'd need to be averaging 100 pts per 3 darts, so by my maths I make it you would need to hit 5 x 20's for every visit on average, and with 33 visits plus one dart ( for 100 darts) that would mean your score would be 165 to keep pace with the big boys! Obviously I'll never get anywhere near that, if I could I'd be going pro and unfortunately I'm nowhere near good enough!

To be up with the very best you'd want nearly 6 20's per 3 darts!
The average for the first 9 is often up around 120+ and the overall average brought down by the lower scores needed to finish so you'd want to be up nearer to 200!

Potential Underachiever · 09-02-2015 04:32PM

gramar wrote: »

To be up with the very best you'd want nearly 6 20's per 3 darts!
The average for the first 9 is often up around 120+ and the overall average brought down by the lower scores needed to finish so you'd want to be up nearer to 200!

Very true point albeit only a select few average 100+ on the regular, a good solid 95 average would leave you doing pretty well, so that would allow a bit of leeway.

gramar · 09-02-2015 04:46PM

Potential Underachiever wrote: »

Very true point albeit only a select few average 100+ on the regular, a good solid 95 average would leave you doing pretty well, so that would allow a bit of leeway.

Don't forget the pressure of doing it up on the big stage in front of thousands wearing fancy dress and a huge TV audience! :pac:

bmcc10 · 12-02-2015 07:43PM

Tried this out got 85 started off well but the more darts I constantly throw, the worse it gets.

ComfortKid · 12-02-2015 07:54PM

bmcc10 wrote:

Tried this out got 85 started off well but the more darts I constantly throw, the worse it gets.

Haha it's usually the opposite. Good darts though, Anything over 80 I think is good enough.

Local_Chap · 13-02-2015 12:30PM

Got 99 with my first go, sickened I didn't make it to 100! Will try again tonight

ComfortKid · 16-02-2015 02:42PM

Just had another few goes of this. 109 and I hit alot of 1s and 5s..Got 92 and 96 so definitely an improvement

scottmcb04 · 17-02-2015 05:05PM

tried this last night 3 times, got 62, 65, and 98... just getting back into throwing after nearly 2 years(with new darts! very inconsistent so hard to tell...)

pudzy · 03-03-2015 07:26PM

finally got around to try this ... 112 to start with....

bren2001 · 05-03-2015 03:13PM

Got around to this yesterday. Hit 78. Got a lot of 1's and 5's with a smattering of treble 20 which made the score respectable.

Nanastick · 05-03-2015 05:32PM

Been play this game for a year or so, really improves your scoring. My best is 116. The darts forum has a program that can keep track of your score. Great program.

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