an order of merit

[TightEnd]

Put these in order of difficulty

6 x 6 s in Cricket

300 in Tenpin

147 in Snooker

9 darter in darts

Hole in One

4 straight aces in Tennis

[fatcatstu]

9 darter in darts
Hole in One
6 x 6 s in Cricket
300 in Tenpin
147 in Snooker





4 straight aces in Tennis

[KarmaDope]

Easiest is probably the 9 darter.

Hardest is probably six sixes. It's just so rare. 6 times since Sobers in 1968 to hit six consecutive sixes.

I'd probably go (from easy to hard)

9 darter
4 aces in tennis
147 in snooker
300 in tenpin
Hole in one
6x6 cricket

[verndog158]

Easiest is probably the 9 darter.

Hardest is probably six sixes. It's just so rare. 6 times since Sobers in 1968 to hit six consecutive sixes.

I'd probably go (from easy to hard)

9 darter
4 aces in tennis
147 in snooker
300 in tenpin
Hole in one
6x6 cricket

surely easiest is the hole in one? i mean you can fluke it, my mum could step up swing a club and on her day completely fluke it? hardest has to be 6 x 6 in an over, just doesnt happen at all

[Ironside]

Hole in one isn't that rare, hard to achieve in a short space of time but large number of pros and amateurs will achieve in there lift time,

[TheDazzler]

Too many other factors not mentioned.
Some of them partially depend on an opponent. The hole in one can be 'easier' at some place rather than others. The 147 could be set up nicely, although still difficult. The 4 aces against my mate will be easy. Against Roger Federer, somewhat harder. The 6 sixes depends on the deliveries. If it's test match, it's amazing. If it's club cricket, less so.
The 9 darter and the 300 in bowling are the only ones that an individual must do all alone. But then pressure of the event could play a part.

[TightEnd]

i agree on hole in one, a possible fluke element that none of the others have?

there have been 115 147s in pro tournament snooker....

[jakally]

Six sixes is rare, at least in part, because players rarely attempt to achieve it.
A nine-darter happens more often, but is theoretically being attempted in every leg of darts played.

[Ironside]

In fact it's 50\50 if a hole in one will be achieved over the 4 rounds of a tour event

[fatcatstu]

9 Darter is the easiest?? Have you ever played Darts? 9 PERFECT darts in a row, its a bloody difficult thing to achieve.

4 aces is the easiest IMO, only got to do it 4 times for a start, and its a damn sight easier to hit an Ace than it is to get 9 darts to go exactly where you want them to.

[doubleup]

In fact it's 50\50 if a hole in one will be achieved over the 4 rounds of a tour event

but that's 1500 attempts so roughly 2999-1

[Doobs]

Where are we ranking fruit pastille without chewing it?

[doubleup]

Too many other factors not mentioned.
Some of them partially depend on an opponent. The hole in one can be 'easier' at some place rather than others. The 147 could be set up nicely, although still difficult. The 4 aces against my mate will be easy. Against Roger Federer, somewhat harder. The 6 sixes depends on the deliveries. If it's test match, it's amazing. If it's club cricket, less so.
The 9 darter and the 300 in bowling are the only ones that an individual must do all alone. But then pressure of the event could play a part.

This OP should be edited to say at the top level of the sport.  So Doobs that would be the Olympic fruit pastille event

[Graham C]

Doesn't the four aces in a row more depend on the opponent? This must happen fairly often in early rounds of non-major tournaments?

[verndog158]

talking of which, Robertson just banged in a 147 in the UK final just now!