What's your average shot time?

TheThaiger

TheThaiger

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I've just worked mine out at 7 secs a shot, which excludes time taken to set the balls up - the balls were just thrown randomly on the table. This is English 8 ball, on a 6x3 table, so quicker to navigate, with no rotation, and based on an 8 min sample. It's around about 10 secs for 9 ball on a 9 footer.

So what's yours?
 
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I try to take the time required for each shot.
On a good day, on a table I know, playing a 'cut and dried' game like 9-ball,
I'm pretty quick.
On a bad day, I play quite a bit slower.
At a game like 1-pocket, I can't picture a fast player being a good player.
At snooker, I was medium-paced.

Tony Drago was my favorite fast snooker player...he never looked rushed,
and his choice of shots was excellent. As good as he plays 9-ball, he still
looks like a fish outta water to me...he should slow it down till he learns
the game as well as snooker.

Most extremely fast players make shot selection mistakes and don't play
their top game under heat.

I don't begrudge an extremely slow player, as long as he's busy...the ones
who stare into empty space every shot didn't get much action from me.
 
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Honestly, it depends on the difficulty of the shot, If itsa toughie, i'll draw one extra time usually i'll say 7-12 secs on average.
The first time I come to the table, I circle it so 1st time is 15-20 secs. but then i'm good to go for the entire rack even if I lose shape.

I'm waiting for the person who sez they take a minute to kill a rack. Even the best, pause and think 2 twice about 1 shot here or there.

I have had many safe shots (both taken & given)that you have to stop and think about in 9-ball.
There you are looking at 20 seconds +

speed does not necessarily equate with efficiency :grin-square:
 
Lint picking should be put in the equation, just saying...
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For me, it really depends on what the table gives me. If it's a road map, 7 to 10 seconds is all I need, but not all table layouts are the same. There will be clusters on some for sure, and most would need more time to think if tickling or ducking is the right play...
 
I consider myself on the high side of the fast scale ...

I played in a tournament this past weekend and was waiting for a match to finish that would decide whom I played next. Race to 7 on fairly easy 9 footers (GCIII). Went hill-hill ... Anyways, they took 2 hours and 10 minutes !!! ... was painful to watch and wait out.

So, up comes my match against the slower of the two slow players. 20 minutes later I had won 7-2 ... he made one 9 of break and one 8 - 9 "runout" when I hung an 8 ball.

So, doing the math for that match;

20 minutes = 1200 seconds / 73 (balls, 8 racks + 1 9 ball) = 16.43
But, if you consider racking took about 20 seconds (magic rack), then the total time would be in the 1020 range, which gives 13.97 seconds.

So, about 14 seconds a shot... which seems totally accurate to/for me.
 
eastcoast_chris said:
I consider myself on the high side of the fast scale ...

I played in a tournament this past weekend and was waiting for a match to finish that would decide whom I played next. Race to 7 on fairly easy 9 footers (GCIII). Went hill-hill ... Anyways, they took 2 hours and 10 minutes !!! ... was painful to watch and wait out.

So, up comes my match against the slower of the two slow players. 20 minutes later I had won 7-2 ... he made one 9 of break and one 8 - 9 "runout" when I hung an 8 ball.

So, doing the math for that match;

20 minutes = 1200 seconds / 73 (balls, 8 racks + 1 9 ball) = 16.43
But, if you consider racking took about 20 seconds (magic rack), then the total time would be in the 1020 range, which gives 13.97 seconds.

So, about 14 seconds a shot... which seems totally accurate to/for me.
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I heard a match race to 7 during the canadian championship took 3 hours and 15 minutes to complete.
 
TheThaiger said:
I've just worked mine out at 7 secs a shot, which excludes time taken to set the balls up - the balls were just thrown randomly on the table. This is English 8 ball, on a 6x3 table, so quicker to navigate, with no rotation, and based on an 8 min sample. It's around about 10 secs for 9 ball on a 9 footer.

So what's yours?
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I've got more important things to do/concern myself with than doing the math required to answer your question (like napping :grin:).

I will say that I ESTIMATE my shotmaking to be in the "normal" range of a hearty collection of poolplayers. I'll rarely take more than 10-15 seconds over any shot except the really tough/critical ones.

I am not what someone would call a slow player. OTOH, I wouldn't be labeled as a fast one either.

Maniac
 
TheThaiger said:
I've just worked mine out at 7 secs a shot, which excludes time taken to set the balls up - the balls were just thrown randomly on the table. This is English 8 ball, on a 6x3 table, so quicker to navigate, with no rotation, and based on an 8 min sample. It's around about 10 secs for 9 ball on a 9 footer.

So what's yours?
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I'd say I'm similar to this for both (although I haven't played English 8 ball for a year or two) if not a little quicker.
 
9-Ball is typically my main game..

When I run the table in 9, I usually have 1-thru-9 gone anywhere from 1m45secs -to- 2mins flat, equals out to about 10-to-12secs per shot.
 
Why the obsession with speed? Fair enough taken to one extreme or the other, it can be ugly. But why is there no happy medium?

A gentleman will walk but never run.
 
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Don't know..Don't care. I've never had any one tell me to hurry up..many have told me I might want to take a few more sec. took look the shot over..

I think I probably take about ten sec. to look the table over..from there I move alone pretty well..unless I'm in a rough spot..if it takes me more then a few sec. to figure out
my
shot, becaues I'm off line..you can bet a safty of some sort is coming.
 
Speed pool?

gerard soriano said:
Once I am in stroke/rhythm I shoot fast I would say average between 3 and 7 seconds per shot
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Wow! Those are "speed pool" numbers! It takes three seconds just to move from one end of the table to the other!

I've timed the pros in Youtube matches and they generally average about eight seconds per shot (in 9-ball), not counting extensions. You do have to pause and think occasionally!

To Thaiger:
Timing yourself in practice will show you just that...how quickly you shoot in practice...when you don't have to necessarily think about defense.

I'm a fairly slow player, averaging more than 10 seconds per shot, because I find at least one shot a game that requires more thought and planning. (Keep in mind that I'm 70 years old!)

And of course, different games require varying amounts of planning...
 
my reply was about 14.1 I should have explained but I did run a 104 in 23min 50 sec wich comes out to 13 sec a shot including racking and all I viewed it today and once the cue ball come to a stop the time is between 3 and 7 seconds for most shots
 
gerard soriano said:
my reply was about 14.1 I should have explained but I did run a 104 in 23min 50 sec wich comes out to 13 sec a shot including racking and all I viewed it today and once the cue ball come to a stop the time is between 3 and 7 seconds for most shots
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That's a very nice run and well worth watching. It's in the 14.1 forum BTW.
 
Ghosst said:
Why the obsession with speed? Fair enough taken to one extreme or the other, it can be ugly. But why is there no happy medium?

A gentleman will walk but never run.
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I don't think it should be an obsession but I think everyone should be aware of it.
 
Once I see the correct line, I want to get down on it as quickly as possible and shoot almost immediately. I've found in my case that protracted deliberation just makes things worse. One or two practice strokes to make sure my stroke is straight, them fire it with authority. If I miss, I miss. At least I know it's a sighting or stroke error, not an "over-thinking the shot" error.

I can't tell you how many times I've stared at a shot with a slight angle until I convinced myself it was straight in after all, with the expected consequences. I'd rather shoot right away and miss by a mile (and I do sometimes) than take all day and miss it by a millimeter. You don't learn a thing just barely missing the shot. When you miss it by a lot you usually can pinpoint the cause of the error and try to correct it the next time you see that shot.
 
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