🎯 Archery Scoring Guide
A curated reference to target archery scoring — the 10-ring face and the inner-10 X, World Archery versus NFAA, and the common rounds with their perfect scores and ring values.
🎯 WA 720
The standard World Archery qualification round: 72 arrows on the 10-ring face, used to seed head-to-head matchplay. A perfect score is 720.
World Archery 10-ring values
| Ring | Score | Colour band |
|---|---|---|
| X (inner 10) | 10 | Gold — breaks ties |
| 10 | 10 | Gold |
| 9 | 9 | Gold |
| 8 | 8 | Red |
| 7 | 7 | Red |
| 6 | 6 | Blue |
| 5 | 5 | Blue |
| 4 | 4 | Black |
| 3 | 3 | Black |
| 2 | 2 | White |
| 1 | 1 | White |
| M (miss) | 0 | Off the scoring rings |
On the World Archery face, ten rings score 10 (centre) out to 1 (outer edge); the innermost X still scores 10 but the X-count breaks ties. Colour bands pair two rings each: Gold 10–9, Red 8–7, Blue 6–5, Black 4–3, White 2–1. The NFAA indoor round is scored 5-4-3 with an inner-5 X ring — 60 arrows for a perfect 300.
Reading a scorecard with confidence
Every competitive round is built on the same idea: put arrows as close to centre as you can, and record what each one is worth. Once you know that the gold is 10 and 9, that the X inside the 10 breaks ties, and that the colour bands step down by twos, any World Archery scorecard reads at a glance.
The rounds differ mainly in how many arrows you shoot, at what distance, and on which face — but the perfect score is always just the number of arrows times the value of the centre. Pick a round above to see its distance, face, and maximum score alongside the full ring-value table.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How does the target archery 10-ring face score?
The World Archery face has ten concentric rings scoring 10 at the centre out to 1 at the outer edge. The innermost ring is the X (inner-10): it still counts as 10 points, but your X-count is used to break ties. Colour bands pair two rings each — Gold 10–9, Red 8–7, Blue 6–5, Black 4–3, White 2–1 — and a miss scores 0.
What's the difference between World Archery and NFAA scoring?
World Archery scores 10 down to 1 on the familiar five-colour face. The NFAA indoor round is scored 5-4-3 with an inner-5 X ring for tiebreaks, so a perfect NFAA indoor score is 60 arrows × 5 = 300. Both use an inner X ring to separate perfect or near-perfect scores.
What are the max scores of the common rounds?
A WA 720 (72 arrows) tops out at 720; a WA 1440 (144 arrows across four distances, formerly the FITA round) at 1440; a Vegas 300 (30 arrows at 18m indoors) at 300; and the NFAA 300 indoor round (60 arrows at 20 yards) at 300.
What does a 'perfect' Vegas 300 look like?
A perfect Vegas 300 is 30 arrows all in the 10-ring, scored 300. Because so many archers can shoot clean 300s, the tiebreak is the X-count — the best possible being a '300 with 30 X', every arrow in the inner-10.
Why is the innermost ring called the X?
The X ring sits inside the 10 and scores the same 10 points, but arrows in it are recorded as X's. When two archers finish on the same total, the one with more X's wins — so the X ring rewards the tightest, most central groups.