Avarage shot time

I'm generally pretty quick, but sometimes I have to walk away from the table and continue the game the next day.. or even a few days after, if I forget about it.

I guess on a big scale, average time between shots for me would probably be 6 or 7 hours?
 
How long is piece of string?

Is there a context here? Pro matched? Bar banging on a Saturday night? League?

All of it everywhere?
 
I am afraid the average shot time is going to be higher then what it should be. Meaning if you were going to use shot clocks and use the "average" as your time limit it will be too long.
Find matches played with shot clocks and go from there for guidance as to what is optimal.
 
Like alphadog above, I think the average may be higher than expected and not really a great measure of actual shooting pace due to some key shots requiring a great deal of thought.

Take a common example...
A pro breaks and surveys the table, mapping out the entire pattern for the out. Once complete, he gets down and starts to shoot, often getting down on the next shot as soon as he walks to the part of the table he needs to shoot from. The balls are picked off very quickly with barely any time in between them, but the average, due to the gap between the break and shooting the first ball taking as long as the rest of the rack combined, will be much higher than their actual shooting pace.

Weaker players need more time because they either don't have a plan for the full rack and need to keep thinking about the ball that comes after the next one OR even if they did make a plan, their execution leaves them short/long on position and forces them to rethink their pattern.

Personally,, I might take 1-2min to plan out a rack, then in an ideal world I stay in line and pick off the balls about 10seconds apart, if that. Things being less than ideal fairly often, I generally need to rethink my approach after a positional play forces me to and I use up one if not multiple 'extentions' in shot clock parlance over the course of the rack. So my preferred pace is quick and that is how I shoot best, but the thinking side of the game eats up my table time as I don't just glance at a table and see the pattern like some of the pros we see on TV who have played 10s of 1000s of racks more than I have (and probably saw the patterns more quickly even when they were at my level of experience.)
 
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Well the shot clocks are in the range of 30-40 seconds so that would be based on a normal shot time. I would say an easy layout can be gone through with 15 seconds per shot including walking to the shot.

I watched a recent league match where the two ladies took 30 minutes per rack. So that is an average shot of 2 minutes per ball if you factor in both making them all before sinking the 8, which usually happens with the low level players, their wins tend to come down to who leaves the 8 ball hanging in the pocket last.
 
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hang-the-9 said:
Well the shot clocks are in the range of 30-40 seconds so that would be based on a normal shot time. I would say an easy layout can be gone through with 15 seconds per shot including walking to the shot.

I watched a recent league match where the two ladies took 30 minutes per rack. So that is an average shot of 2 minutes per ball if you factor in both making them all before sinking the 8, which usually happens with the low level players, their wins tend to come down to who leaves the 8 ball hanging in the pocket last.
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How does this work I hit reply to just the first sentence and the rest of this appears?
 
When there is a 30 second shot clock, the average time is probably 25 seconds. When there is not shot clock, the average time is probably 50 seconds. IMO:)
 
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