Without a doubt. I no longer bowl, but I used to bowl a lot and had to keep score. As a kid “Sports Math” (my own name for it) was a game for me. I can still determine a pitcher’s ERA with paper and pencil.
I’d love to find a local bowling alley that still offered manual scoring – that’d mean they’d likely charge a reasonable price for a game, and I’d get the fun of keeping score as well!
Yes, and a pox on electronic scorers. Yet another rite of passage from my youth has disappeared.
More important, it’s so the top score of 300 will be a nice round number. 
The way I bowl, a very young child who has received even the most rudimentary of arithmetic lessons could tally my scores.
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When I bowled years ago, I was going for 450 points 
Keeping score is like riding a bike. It helps if you have a pre printed score sheet though.
I learned by watching the PBA broadcasts on ABC Sports as a kid. I started bowling as a teen and tried to figure out the score before the electronic readout did.
I bowled once in Cub Scouts in the 70’s (Got to be the kid who got a ball stuck on his fingers too! :smack:) wouldn’t know how to keep score to save my life.
I can now manually score a game of bowling!
Yeah, what is so tricky about it?
CMC fnord!
I took a bowling class in college for a PE credit, before electronic scoring. Yes, I can keep score in bowling.
Add me to the people who don’t get what’s so hard about it.
It confused me at one time, so my father sat me down and explained it to me. The lesson ended when he filled out a score sheet with 12 Xes and asked me what the final score would be. I was so proud of myself when I figured it out.
A few years later every alley went to automatic scoring. My soul died a little on that day.
87% of the self-selected poll responders currently say yes.
I bet in the American public at large, the rate is less than 25%.