"How many left?"
avalon wrote:I don`t mean to criticise anyone here so I apologise to anyone who fits the comment I am about to make
I have seen some very experienced chalkers who constantly make the same mistake and that is they wait until all 3 darts are in the board before adding them up. Add them up one at a time as the darts land that means you only have one dart, the last one thrown, to add to the score of the first 2 which is already in your head before the thrower retrieves them. I appreciate that sometimes the second dart or third aren`t always totally visible so just leave them until the thrower is finished then move quickly to take a look.
Another thing is that people confuse number patterns with being a good chalker. I doubt anyone who plays or watches darts regularly adds up a treble 20 and two single 20`s... you already know it is 100. I doubt anyone here adds up treble 20, treble 19 and double 12 for a 141 finish, you already know, your eyes automatically switch from treble 20 to treble 19 and then to double 12 without thinking about it and if they miss the treble 19 most automatically know the third dart, more times than not, will go towards the treble 10. These are patterns and require no counting, to be a good chalker you need to get away from `patterns` and add up the darts instead, otherwise when a player is on 141 and hits treble 20, single 7 and asks you what is left you have to take time to calculate it.