Know what to practise. Put it to work in your next game.

Runout Lab connects structured practice, lessons and games with a record of what you actually did. Choose a pathway that fits your time, follow each task's success condition and log the result. Use the skill in play, then check comparable attempts later. Starting estimates, practice results and match performance tell different parts of the story.

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Cue Object Object path Ghost ball

A real card from the engine — cut shots, level 6 of 10. 40° cut to the left head corner.Set up: A 40° cut into the left head corner. Object ball one diamond off the right rail, four diamonds up from the head rail; cue ball one diamond off the right rail, two diamonds up from the foot rail, 2 diamonds away.Count success only when: Pot the ball. Both balls go back on their spots for the next rep — the angle is the drill.At a table: try the shot, record the outcome, then use the idea in a rack. This is an example, not a measured level for you.

24: Course modulesin 8 phases
14: Skill familiesacross 5 categories
10: Levels per familyshots generated per rep
33: Drillsevery one with a diagram

How it works

Choose a starting point

Pick a course lesson, a focused drill or a Lab session. A baseline measures your starting difficulty, and you can save it one skill family at a time.

Practise and record

Set up the card, follow the full success condition and record makes and misses. The Lab adjusts difficulty from your results and plans work for the time you have.

Play, then check again

Carry the skill into RDS, a ghost game, Career or a match. Review comparable attempts later; a good practice session alone does not prove lasting or match improvement.

How to get results from your time here

Choose a focus, practise it honestly, use it in a game, then come back and check it. You do not need to use every tool or finish everything in one visit.

A simple routine, and how to tell if it is working

Choose one focus. Pick a skill or game situation you want to improve. Use the course for an ordered route, the Lab for a session, or the library for a specific drill.
Set up, shoot, record. Follow the diagram and the full success condition, including position or cue-ball control when required. Record misses too.
Use it in play. Carry one intention into RDS, a ghost race, Career or a match. A practice challenge and a real opponent test different things.
Check again later. Compare attempts at the same task and difficulty. A later check asks what stayed; a different situation asks what carries over. A streak or completed lesson alone cannot answer either.

Start with a routine you can repeat: perhaps two short practices and a chance to play during the week. This is a suggested starting rhythm, not a required dose or a promised rating gain. Set your actual time and days in the Lab.

Want a baseline first? Complete one skill family, save it and stop. Finish the remaining families on another visit. You can train before the full calibration is complete.

Measure a starting point Review your records What each tool is for

What's inside

Every part of the app, and what it is for. Nothing here needs an account to read — follow any tile for the long version.

Start here

Choose the guided course for lessons in order, or use the Lab, a focused drill or a game when that fits your time. A baseline helps you choose a starting difficulty; you can measure it in parts.

Your course24 modules in 8 phases, with lessons and practical standards where required.Measure your baselineA calibration run that replaces guessed starting levels with measurements from your attempts.

Training — where skill is actually built

These are the deliberate-practice surfaces. Reps logged here move your measured levels; everything else in the app is either play or reporting.

Evidence LabA generated session: priming routine, an interleaved queue of shots across 3–4 skill families, a pressure block, then reflection.Drill LibraryEvery skill family across 10 difficulty levels, with diagrams.Break PlaybookBreak strategy per game type, plus a mapping drill to learn what your own table actually does.

Playing — pressure, and the numbers that count

Practice builds skill; playing proves it. These record real games so your rating and records come from what happened, not from what you remember.

Straight PoolA full 14.1 scorekeeper — solo high runs, against the ghost, or a real opponent, with innings, fouls, safeties and break shots tracked.Wall scoreboardPuts the match on a big display, and gives each player a phone scorekeeper via QR.Ghost racesRace a calibrated opponent tuned to a rating.Career modeNine rooms of opponents with their own styles and trash talk.

Knowing where you stand

Reporting only. Nothing here changes a number — it just shows you the ones you've earned.

Your NumbersFargo trend, skill levels, miss-reason leaks, records and head-to-head, all in one place.The standardized examThe same 30 shots every time, so scores are comparable across months.The MethodThe research this whole app is built on, in plain English, with sources.

The Edge - the things that separate the bands

These came out of researching what actually distinguishes a 500 from a 600 from a 700, rather than what is easy to build. Each one answers a question the Lab could not.

Shot odds and the shoot/safe callTurns your measured shooting into a real make percentage for the shot in front of you, then works out whether shooting or a safety wins the rack more often.Runs and error costLogs every trip to the table and reports how many balls you string together, how often you clear, and what your misses actually cost you.Quiet eyeTimes the final fixation before your stroke and plots your make rate against how long you held it.Match labReal FargoRate odds: your chance per game, over a given race, the race that would actually be fair, and your chance from a scoreline in progress.Diamond systemsCorner-5 and the 2-to-1 kick worked out live and drawn on a table, corrected for your own table's measured bias.End of rackStraight pool break-ball and key-ball problems, generated and graded, so you can shoot fifty of them in an evening instead of one per rack.Proving groundOne fixed five-station exam that never changes, scored into published bands, so today's number is comparable to next year's.Your tableMeasures your cloth speed and rail rebound, then scales the app's distance targets to the table you actually own.ScoutingEvery opponent you have logged, and the gap between how you should do against them and how you actually do.

People and setup

Housekeeping — do it once and forget it.

TeamInvite teammates with a private link, resend or reset a link, remove someone.PlayersOpponents and profiles for scorekeeping, plus the leaderboard.SettingsYour Fargo rating sync, table notes, cues, ghost tuning and app options.

A promise about the numbers

Know what each result can tell you.

A starting estimate is not a measurement. Passing a drill records that performance; a later check asks what stayed, and a different task or a match asks what carries over. Keep those records separate as you work toward your own goals. The app does not promise a particular Fargo gain or a deadline for reaching it.

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