CueLab / Practice & Training
Structure beats volume in snooker practice. These six tools help you plan, track, score and diagnose — the loop that turns "table time" into measurable improvement.
Pick your level, total time and focus; CueLab assembles a structured practice plan with rough time allocations and a recommended warm-up. Not a coaching script — a schedule.
Time allocations are starting points, not rules. If you're hitting a run in potting, extend it; if safety is unstable, extend safety. The structure prevents the common "I played for 90 minutes and only practised one thing" trap.
CueLab plans a session but cannot simulate a coach. If a particular drill feels "off" (e.g. cue ball is bouncing), change the drill — the plan is scaffolding, not a syllabus.
Track your long-pot attempts across multiple sessions, distances and ball colours. All data is stored in your browser (localStorage). We do not save it anywhere else.
This distance (last 5)
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All sessions overall
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Trend (last 3 vs prior 3)
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Simulate 100 "match-ball" pots across different stress levels and see how your stated base rate survives. Useful for surfacing the difference between your normal long-pot % and your "match" %.
Effective % drops with stress and fatigue. The mental-game literature suggests 5–15 percentage points of degradation in finals; we go a bit further for tour-level events. Confirm by comparing your actual match-pot % vs practice-pot % over a season.
We model one dimension at a time; real match-potting is also affected by opponent, audience, table conditions, and recent form — not modelled here.
A starting-point advisor: enter your height, bridge reach and style preferences; CueLab returns recommended cue length, weight, tip diameter and a balance bias. Treat as one input among several — try before you commit.
Snooker cues are typically 57–59 inches. Tip diameters range from 9 mm (technical) to 11 mm (forgiving). Cue weight 17–19 oz is the practical band; balance biases shift front/rear depending on style. We average published pro ranges for a starting recommendation.
Cue feel is highly individual. The recommendation is a starting point; you must try the cue and ideally hit a few long pots and a few safety shots before buying.
Generate a random practice frame state: ball positions are sampled from a difficulty-ranked distribution; you set up the table at home accordingly and play out from there.
Describe what happened after a missed pot (cue ball direction, object-ball departure angle) and CueLab offers one or two plausible causes — for self-review, not coaching.
The diagnoser offers one to two plausible causes by pattern-matching what you described against common snooker mistake patterns. It is not a coaching diagnosis — repeat misses of the same kind are a coach's job, not a form-fill.
Snooker misses are often multi-causal; self-reported descriptions miss what the eye sees. Use this tool to surface hypotheses, then verify on video.