Is an X worth more points than a 10?

No. On standard target faces an X scores the same as a 10. It is recorded separately because the X-count breaks ties and shows how tight your groups are inside the 10. The exception is divisions that score only the inner ring as 10, such as compound on World Archery indoor faces, where an arrow outside the X but inside the outer 10 scores 9.

What does "300 60X" mean?

It is a perfect NFAA five-spot round: 60 arrows, each worth 5 points, with all 60 in the X. Archers quote the X-count after the score because at the top level the score alone no longer separates them.

How do I improve my X-count?

Treat it as a precision problem rather than a scoring one: tighten your groups first, then centre them. Shoot rounds where you only record X or not-X, keep the same arrows and setup for a few weeks so the trend means something, and change one thing at a time in your sight or tuning.

X (vnitřní desítka)

The X-ring is the smallest ring at the centre of a target face, inside the highest-scoring ring: the 10 on World Archery faces, the 5 on NFAA faces. Usually an X scores the same as that ring but is counted separately, as the X-count, to break ties. Under some rules only the X earns that top score.

Detaily

On World Archery target faces the X is the inner ring of the gold 10, half the diameter of the 10-ring. It carries no extra points: an arrow in the X scores 10, and the scorer marks it as an X so it can be counted. On the NFAA blue-and-white five-spot face the white spot is worth 5, and the small X-ring at its centre is counted separately in the same way.

Some divisions shoot to a smaller ten. Under World Archery indoor rules, compound archers score only the inner ring as 10 on the 40 cm face, so for them the recurve archer's X is the whole ten and an arrow just outside it scores 9. The Vegas Shoot works the other way round: every championship division scores the full gold ten on the three-spot face. The X breaks ties in the Flights divisions and for fourth place and below in the Championship divisions, and in a championship shoot-off only the X scores 10. The same face can be scored differently from one round to the next, so check the rulebook for your round and division.

Indoors, where strong archers shoot perfect or near-perfect totals, the X-count often decides the result, and many league and club events simply compare X-counts. Two archers who both shoot 300 on an NFAA five-spot round are separated by who put more arrows in the X. World Archery is the exception: in qualification at short distances, including indoors, it ranks ties on the number of 10s and then 9s, and Xs decide only at long distances outdoors, where qualification ties go to the most Xs and then the most 10s.

X-count is also a precision measure in its own right. A score only tells you whether arrows landed inside the 10; the share of arrows in the X shows whether your groups are tightening inside it. Many indoor archers set an X percentage as a season goal, and a drill as simple as scoring a 60-arrow round only as X or not-X shows quickly whether a form or tuning change actually helped.

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Is an X worth more points than a 10?: No. On standard target faces an X scores the same as a 10. It is recorded separately because the X-count breaks ties and shows how tight your groups are inside the 10. The exception is divisions that score only the inner ring as 10, such as compound on World Archery indoor faces, where an arrow outside the X but inside the outer 10 scores 9.
What does "300 60X" mean?: It is a perfect NFAA five-spot round: 60 arrows, each worth 5 points, with all 60 in the X. Archers quote the X-count after the score because at the top level the score alone no longer separates them.
How do I improve my X-count?: Treat it as a precision problem rather than a scoring one: tighten your groups first, then centre them. Shoot rounds where you only record X or not-X, keep the same arrows and setup for a few weeks so the trend means something, and change one thing at a time in your sight or tuning.