It's a great debate and one that's difficult to have a clear cut answer on. Personally I think potting 36 balls to the maximum score is always gona be harder than throwing 9 perfect darts.
147 or 9 dart finish
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It's a great debate and one that's difficult to have a clear cut answer on. Personally I think potting 36 balls to the maximum score is always gona be harder than throwing 9 perfect darts.
Pockets are massive, but the treble section on a dart board is tiny.
True but the variables in snooker are the difference. Every leg a player can 100% have chance at the 9 darter. Not in snooker
How many frames of snooker are in a full match, 15? Must be about the same as legs of darts I’d have thought? 3 legs to a set, 5-6 sets a match - not a million miles away.
Depends?? In both sports obviously
The variables are the way the balls set in an individual leg not how many, for instance...a dart player has every chance to a 9 darter in his 1st throw, of every leg. Snooker player doesn't. He could be snookered, pots a red then is snookered
On average I mean. In the World Championship of darts it's usually first to 7 sets in the latter rounds and as few as 3 sets earlier on. Don't really know how it works with snooker but whenever i've seen it they're usually playing a similar amount of frames to legs of darts.
You'd have to break first as well I'd imagine.
Phil Taylor has 22 nine dart finishes, Ronnie O'Sullivan has 15(9 darters). And tbh Ronnie is more naturally gifted than Taylor. Has to be the 147
147. Ive hit 7 perfect darts before so its not 9 throws of darts ffs
Perfect hat trick
147, but doing a nine-darter in a Championship is bloody hard
Eh?
15 one four sevens
Ah. Maybe he is more talented, and I don’t really know anything about snooker. I’d fancy myself to pot X amount of balls in a row though than hit a 9 dart finish.
With 147s, you're also playing against the opponent.
I thought the opponent didn’t come into it? If you hit a 147 then he doesn’t even get a shot does he?
147 for me. Darts is easier than snooker, even though a 9 dart finish is quite remarkable.
Yeah, but before actually engaging in 147, the opponent is actively trying to stop you to pot the first ball, by potting it himself, or playing safety shots. In darts, the opponent is stopping you only by farting.
I'm pretty decent at darts and a 9 darter remains a very very remote possibilty one day. I have absolutely no chance in snooker highest break is about 32.
I always thought if you hit a 147 you started with the break and just carried on from there. Never really seen anyone do it who didn’t start the frame.
This is not even a debate. How can anyone think getting a 147 is easier than a 9 darter? You can be really lucky and get 9 darter. Absolutely zero chance you can get 147 with luck.
147 and it’s not even close. You have to be insanely good to even come close to one. I’ve hit two 180s in a row and i’m average at darts.
So you've not hit a 9 darter then?
But yeah I'd say a 147 is the harder of the 2. As top levels pros with full crowds I'd imagine the noise of a 9 darter can be pretty high pressure though
If you did the 147, then of course you started the break (scoring) and continued right until the end. But before potting that first red ball, before the start of the break, the opponent if actively trying to do the same or to make your shots as hard as possible.
Not a debate this surely? 147 is probably 100x harder.
You do realise you have to pot a red then black and position yourself on a snooker table for every red to the pot then pot the black, and then pot all the colours in order without missing any shot.
I don’t know how it can even be a debate. In snooker each shot directly affects the next, the placement of the balls etc. Every throw of a dart is the same as the last.
How is the opponent doing anything if the first shot hasn’t even been taken yet? If you break then unless you don’t pot anything then the opponent doesn’t even stand up does he?
I do
36 good to perfect positional shots to 9 perfect darts. 147 by a mile.
It’s not pool. It’s almost impossible to pot off the break.
147 isn’t even that big of a checkout, treble 20, treble 17, double 18 is achievable.
Really? I haven’t seen a game of snooker for years but I remember Ronnie doing it I’m pretty sure.
147 by an absolute mile is more difficult.
Every shot different, positional shots need to be perfect, splitting the pack, you never know what will happen.
Nine dart finish far from easy, don’t get me wrong but it’s the same 9 darts every time so muscle memory has much more input.
Every shot different, positional shots need to be perfect, splitting the pack, you never know what will happen.
Nine dart finish far from easy, don’t get me wrong but it’s the same 9 darts every time so muscle memory has much more input.
It’s one in a million to pot off the break. Nobody would ever try it and it wouldn’t be conducive to a good break anyway because you’re just as likely to knock the colours safe as pot.
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If you haven’t already guessed I don’t really know shit about snooker, other than it’s bigger than a pool table and has 6 pockets. I fancy myself at darts though, but have never had a 9 darter. That might have something to do with it to be fair.
I think snooker is one of the most difficult games/sports around. The things pros can do are just ridiculous and while pro darts players are still obviously vastly superior to the average punter, it’s still just throwing something at a board.
I think you might be getting a bit mixed up by “break” too as it’s used interchangeably for 2 different things. There’s the break at the start of the frame where the first player takes the first shot, but you’d never achieve a 147 from there and the aim is to play for position to prevent your opponent getting a potting chance.Then there’s what’s called a break when a player starts potting balls, if you score 16 that’s a break of 16 and players can have multiple of these breaks a frame. So a break of 147 would mean you pot every red with the black and of course your opponent wouldn’t pot a ball in the frame but there may have been a long string of shots leading up to that break that makes your life more difficult.
Reading that back it hardly makes sense to me
