Cueist app.. whats your score rating?

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I’ve been thinking about adding some kind of sharing option. Right now, most players just share screenshots, which works, but it’s not ideal.

The tricky part is figuring out a way to make it actually useful, rather than just duplicating screenshots inside the app. Do you think it would be helpful if your friends could open the shots in their app and try them themselves, or is that unnecessary?
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Yes, that sounds cool
 
Good to see you're still able to work on this. Cueist is too good to go stale!
I'd love to have a shot designer/editor. We all complain 'too difficult/thin/unusual' for some shots, a designer tool would make those complaints go away. I guess there has to be some way to tell the algorithm how difficult the shot is, or whatever metadata you are using (length, type, angle, etc)

(btw I was going to post my rating but the stats page is hanging up at the moment)
 
timseal said:
Good to see you're still able to work on this. Cueist is too good to go stale!
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Don’t worry - Cueist isn’t going to go stale. We’re serious about this app and we’ll keep working on it.

Since launch, we’ve mostly focused on making sure everything works a little better, so most of the changes haven’t been very noticeable on the surface. Drill selection has improved, drill ratings have improved, and everything runs a bit smoother and a bit faster.

Now we’re getting ready to add more substantial features, and we already have a lot planned for 2026.

We’re very motivated, largely because of how good the response from players has been so far. Just in the last month, people from around 140 different countries have been training with Cueist. I knew pool was a global sport and expected players from the USA, Europe, the Philippines or Vietnam, but seeing people from places like Vanuatu, Eswatini, Western Sahara or Kiribati is still pretty surprising.
 
timseal said:
I guess there has to be some way to tell the algorithm how difficult the shot is
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There actually is a way to tell the algorithm how difficult a shot is - you do it by playing the shot and posting your result.

Let me explain.

Every drill in Cueist has a difficulty rating. Initially, these ratings were calculated using our physics engine. To simplify it a bit, once we set up a shot, the algorithm would ‘play it out’ and calculate what we call the permissible error. Things like: if I hit this shot with a little bit of left English, will it still go, and how much is too much. Factors such as top or bottom spin, left or right English, speed, shot direction and cue elevation all feed into that initial rating.

Those ratings were pretty good - honestly better than I expected - but they weren’t perfect.

To improve this, we added another system on top. Every time a player completes a drill and posts the result, that result is used to adjust the drill’s difficulty.

So if people consistently fail a drill, that’s a strong signal that it was rated too low, and the system will gradually increase it. If a drill turns out to be easier than expected, the opposite happens.

There are a lot of drills in Cueist, so this is still an ongoing process. But players who’ve been with us from the start have already noticed that the ratings are becoming more and more accurate over time.
 
timseal said:
Good to see you're still able to work on this. Cueist is too good to go stale!
I'd love to have a shot designer/editor. We all complain 'too difficult/thin/unusual' for some shots, a designer tool would make those complaints go away. I guess there has to be some way to tell the algorithm how difficult the shot is, or whatever metadata you are using (length, type, angle, etc)

(btw I was going to post my rating but the stats page is hanging up at the moment)
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I enjoy the app as well and was worried about it going stale too! What is your rating and how does it compare to your Fargo?
 
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