Finger Soccer Tips: Six Tests, Still 0:0 at the Clock’s 0:23

The first finger soccer tip is to be patient with the clock: in Discstrike six tests, about 66 seconds into the match, all showed 0:0, whether we flicked discs or did nothing. Goals do not come from random flicks, so aim each one.

How the game works

Discstrike is a finger-soccer game seen from above. You type a name, pick a country flag, see a VS. screen with a random opponent and then play on a green pitch. Each team has three flag discs and the ball sits in the middle. You drag a disc with the mouse and let go to flick it. A scoreboard at the top shows the names and the score, and a clock at the bottom counts down from about 1:30.

What we measured

We played in a test browser at 1280 by 800 pixels with software rendering. In three tests we left the discs alone, and in three we flicked a disc about every 1.8 seconds without aiming at the ball. After about 66 seconds we read the scoreboard and the clock.

Six tests in one test browser; the flicks were repeated from fixed points and not aimed at the ball, so the result says that random flicks do not score, not that scoring is hard.

The opponent

The VS. screen shows a random name for your opponent. In our tests it was Tommy, Michael, Casey, Edward, Cillian, Javier, Alan and Jeff. The idle opponent did not score either.

4 tips that follow from the numbers

• Aim every flick. Unaimed flicks scored nothing in 66 seconds.
• Watch the clock. It started near 1:30 and was at about 0:23 when we stopped.
• Use the whole team. You have three discs, so keep one near your own goal.
• Take the shot late. When little time is left, a direct flick beats a setup pass.

Where to try it

Try it yourself in Discstrike. For another ball game, Dunkhead is a basketball game.