I routinely hit between 250 and 300.
What’s that? Bowling? Not golf?
Shit.
Only broke 200 one time. My friend was keeping score and I was finishing out with a nice string of strikes. I see him looking at me intently in frame 10. He won’t tell me my score.
I get the strike. He’s about to explode. I roll and get a 7 or 8. Then I toss a gutter ball. He shakes his head - 2- 0- 1!
I don’t remember breaking 190 since.
7 games at 300 but all at the same place. over a bit over 5 years.
$1000 for each time.
I haven’t bowled in years but I am going on a bowl-a-thon for charity this weekend. Highest score I can remember was 187.
I watched my sister bowl a “perfect” game of sorts when she was 10. Twenty straight gutter balls. Bumper bowling couldn’t be invented fast enough for her.
I think I bowled a 136 once, maybe a little higher. I usually just hope to break 100 (and frequently don’t).
This is probably hard to believe for a crappy bowler, but I did make a 7-10 split once. I aimed for the outside edge of the 7 to bounce it out of the pit and into the 10 right as the ball fell in the gutter, and by sheer dumb luck did exactly what I intended.
My high was 131. I generally average between 90 and 110, and am disappointed if I don’t break 100.
Just went bowling with the family on Sunday and got 102. Put my little bumper-bowling whippersnappers in their place.
Keep in mind, there’s a selection effect at work. The folks who are really great bowlers are probably a lot more likely to read this thread, post, and/or vote than the folks who are really lousy bowlers. That alone could give you a skew, even if everyone is completely honest about their scores.
And I’m pretty sure there’s a rule about honesty and the internet.
I had a bowling alley shut me off in the middle of a game two nights ago when I had a perfect game going. Five strikes (so still a ways to go…) and I was in the zone. Every time up was perfect. I’ve never been so consistently perfect with my tosses, even when I had seven strikes in a row one or two was a lucky kickback strike off an inaccurate roll. I felt really confident I would come real close to that perfect game, and at the very least I would have shattered my personal best. But it was closing time.
I don’t know. I would have stayed the extra five to ten minutes in order to let someone bowl until they got less than a strike if they had a perfect game going. But I can understand not wanting to stick around a minute longer than I had to as well, so I guess I don’t fault them too much for shutting me down. Just another “what if” to add to the list…
Personal best was a 268, one of only 2 times I have broken 250. When I was bowling on a regular league, my average hovered around 175, and I would usually hit 200 once every other week. My consstency was awful though. My father-in-law bowled for 25+ years without hitting a 300, and then rolled 2 within a year of one another.
Although I am a big fan of the origin of your username, it is even more appropriate in this thread. 
Another with multiple 300s–10 in USBC sanctioned competition at last count, plus two in unsanctioned sweeper tournaments.
I agree that the typical “house pattern” combined with the new bowling ball technology has made 300s more commonplace–so much so that the USBC has removed the gemstone from the 300 ring you get for free; you now have to pay extra for that.
I also bowl in a summer league that uses the more difficult PBA oil patterns–my high game on that condition is a 289 on the “Shark” pattern last summer.