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.
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.
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.
A generated session: priming routine, an interleaved queue of shots across 3–4 skill families, a pressure block, then reflection. When you tap Missed you pick why, and it answers with the specific correction for that fault on that shot.
Where
Bottom nav → Evidence Lab, or Home → Practise on your own
When to use it
When you want a whole session organized for you. Choose 20 to 120 minutes at the table in the planner.
What it does to your data
This is the primary way levels move. The staircase promotes on sustained ~80% success and demotes below ~55%, so difficulty tracks you automatically.
The research this whole app is built on, in plain English, with sources.
Where
Home → What do you want to do?
When to use it
When you want to know why the app is making you do something.
What it does to your data
Nothing to record here — but it's the best 10 minutes you can spend, because knowing why a drill is shaped that way makes you far less likely to quietly skip it.
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.
Turns 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.
Where
Home -> The Edge -> Shot odds
When to use it
Away from the table, to recalibrate what 'makeable' means. Nobody expects you to open your phone mid-rack.
What it does to your data
Reads your Lab levels. Changes nothing - but it is the only place your own numbers get pointed at a decision.
Your Fargo rating sync, table notes, cues, ghost tuning and app options.
Where
Bottom nav → Settings
When to use it
Once at the start, then rarely.
What it does to your data
Your official rating is looked up publicly — the app never stores account credentials.
A promise about the numbers
Nothing in this app flatters you. Levels only rise on sustained success, a drill you haven't passed stays unpassed, and a figure you haven't earned shows as a dash rather than a zero dressed up as data. If a number here looks good, it's because you did something.