I've never seen great pinball players other than the games I've looked up of tournaments on youtube so I don't know how consistent talented pinball players are supposed to be. I'd consider myself the best pinball player I know, but it's far from consistent. I'll go to my local watering hole and play 10 games of pinball and maybe have 1-2 great games. Is this normal? Are good players good every game they play? I know there's a certain "random" element to the game that makes for unlucky drains, but as you get better do you diminish these completely?

I've also seen that when I do have great games it's usually due to one monster scoring ball. Being fairly new to practicing pinball I've noticed trying to get extra balls helps too, obviously.

So how often do you have great games? And at what point do you know that you're becoming a better than average pinball player?

RGR- I've only recently started trying to get good at pinball so I haven't got many high scores to glow about. My high scores are as such. (rounded off)
Theater of Magic- 1.3b
Lord of the Rings- 63m
The newer indiana jones 153m

Those are the only 3 worth mentioning at this point. I consider them to be on the average side of high scoring. how about you?

I checked out the website. I was hesitant about it but I looked. My scores are not anything compared the high scores on there. I've had a saying for a while that goes something like "No matter how good you are at something there's someone out there that's better at it". and that website proves it ten-fold! I'm very pessimistic about things but it doesn't stop me from trying. After all, there's 2 Theater of magic machines here in Milwaukee with my initials in the number 1 spot!