26 shooting challenges that find you mid-session
Shooting alone gets quiet. Tally Hoops challenges break in while you shoot: make your first three in a row, go ten for ten, stop a run of misses before it reaches three. They're free, and they're sized to how you usually shoot.
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How challenges work
- Start a session on Apple Watch. Challenges are on by default.
- Shoot. When a challenge fits the moment, a card slides up over your face with the goal and your progress.
- Make it or miss it. The card counts each shot toward the goal and tells you when you've done it, or when it's gone.
- See the result later. Every challenge you attempt is saved with the session, and More › Challenges keeps your attempts and success rate.
9 of the challenges have a target that moves with you: they scale to your career accuracy for the shot type you're shooting, so “make 6 of your first 10” becomes a bigger ask for a 50% shooter than for a 30% one. One setting, Easy, Normal or Hard, nudges every target up or down. The rest are relative to the session itself: beat this session's best streak, get back within 5% of its best percentage.
All 26 challenges
Targets shown at Normal difficulty, before they scale to you.
Early Session
A fast start, before you're warm.
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Cold Start Scales to you
Make 6 of your first 10 shots
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First Five Scales to you
Make 4 of your first 5 shots
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Opening Streak Scales to you
Make your first 3 shots in a row
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Slow Burn Scales to you
Reach 50% by shot 20
Streak
Runs of makes, and stopping runs of misses.
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Streak Challenge
Extend your current make streak to the next milestone
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Beat Your Best
Break your session-best streak by one
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Bounce Back
Make 3 in a row after a miss streak
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Redemption
Match your best streak after a bad miss run
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No Miss Zone Scales to you
Make 5 in a row mid-session
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Flawless Five
Make the next 5 with no misses
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Rhythm Breaker
Break an alternating make/miss pattern with 3 in a row
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Denial
Stop a miss streak from reaching 3
Accuracy
Make most of the next few.
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Perfect Ten
Go 10 for 10
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Hot Streak Scales to you
Make 7 of the next 10 shots
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Marksman Scales to you
Make 5 of the next 6 shots
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Clutch Shooter Scales to you
Make 5 of the next 7 when shooting below 40%
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Finishing Strong Scales to you
Make 8 of the next 10 late in a session
Percentage
Move your session percentage where you want it.
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Closer
Push your percentage up to the next round number
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Swing Shift
Recover your percentage after a drop from session high
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The Comeback
Get within 5% of your session-best percentage
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Reverse Jinx
Stay above your current percentage for 10 shots
Milestone
Hold your shooting through a big shot count.
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Milestone Push
Hit a target percentage by a shot milestone
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Century Club
Hold your percentage through a major milestone
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Almost There
Reach a shot count milestone
Celebration
No pass or fail: a moment when you're on a heater or break a record.
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Pressure Free
Celebration when you're shooting hot — no pass or fail
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New Record!
Celebration when you break a personal best streak
Beat My Run: challenge a friend
Any finished session can become a challenge for someone else. Share it with Beat My Run and your friend gets a link; when they open it in Tally Hoops, they race your exact run, shot for shot. The whole run is written into the link itself, so nobody needs an account and nothing goes through a server.
Turning challenges off
In the iPhone app, More › Challenges has a switch for all of them and one for each, so you can keep the ones you like. Challenges only appear in watch sessions; Assist Mode on iPhone doesn't show them.
Checked against Tally Hoops 3.11 on October 14, 2026.
Questions
Are Tally Hoops challenges free?
Yes. All 26 challenges are free, and they're on by default.
How do challenges work?
During a session on Apple Watch, a challenge card pops up when it fits what's happening, like a fast start or a streak in progress. It shows your progress shot by shot, then tells you whether you made it. Results are saved with the session.
Can I make challenges easier or harder?
Yes. Targets already scale to your career accuracy for each shot type, and in More › Challenges you can set Easy, Normal or Hard for all of them, or switch individual challenges off.
Do challenges work in Assist Mode on iPhone?
No, challenges run in watch sessions. Assist Mode on iPhone logs your shots without them.
What is Beat My Run?
Beat My Run turns a finished session into a link. A friend who opens it races your exact run, shot for shot. The run travels inside the link, so there's no account and no server involved.