Maximum break
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A maximum break (also known as a maximum, a 147 or, orally, a oneTemplate:NbhfourTemplate:Nbhseven) is the highest possible Template:Cuegloss in snooker in normal circumstancesTemplate:Efn and is a special type of Template:Cuegloss. A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 Template:Cuegloss with 15 Template:Cuegloss for 120 points, followed by all six Template:Cuegloss for a further 27 points. Compiling a maximum break is regarded as a highly significant achievement in the game of snooker and may be compared to a [[Nine-dart finish|nineTemplate:Nbhdart finish]] in darts, a [[Hole in one|holeTemplate:NbhinTemplate:Nbhone]] in golf or a 300 game in [[Ten-pin bowling|tenTemplate:Nbhpin bowling]].<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Joe Davis made the first officially recognised maximum break in a 1955 exhibition match in London. At the Classic in January 1982, Steve Davis achieved the first recognised maximum in professional competition, which was also the first in a televised match. The following year, Cliff Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum at the World Snooker Championship. As of August 2025, over 200 officially recognised maximum breaks have been made in professional tournament play.<ref name="WPBSA_Official_List" /> Ronnie O'Sullivan holds the record for the most maximum breaks in professional competition, with 17, and also the Guinness World Record for the fastest competitive maximum break, which he made at the 1997 World Championship in a time of 5 minutes and 8 seconds.<ref name="Guinness_fastest" /><ref name="Deadspin_Tippett">Template:Cite news</ref> At the 2017 Championship League, Mark Davis became the first player to make two official maximums at the same event. In the 2025 World Snooker Championship qualifiers, Jackson Page became the first player to make two official maximums in the same match. In the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters semi-finals, O'Sullivan became the first to make two official maximums in a one-session match or on the same day.<ref name="BBC_2025.8.15" />
Maximum breaks have become more frequent in professional snooker. Only eight recognised maximums were achieved in professional competition in the 1980s, but 26 occurred in the 1990s, 35 in the 2000s and 86 in the 2010s. As of the 2025 International Championship, 76 officially recognised professional maximums have been made thus far in the 2020s.<ref name="WST_24_25_maximums" /> Since the 1980s, there have been various prizes awarded for maximum breaks. In addition to the 147 bonuses on offer at some tournaments, since the [[2023–24 snooker season|2023Template:Nbnd24 season]] the World Snooker Tour has offered a £147,000 prize to a player who makes two maximum breaks during a season's Triple Crown events as well as the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters. This prize can be won up to three times per season, including multiple times by the same player.<ref name="147k_prize_2023"/><ref name="147k_prize_saudi"/><ref name="147k_prize_25-26"/>
History
Joe Davis compiled the first officially recognised maximum break on 22 January 1955, in a match against Willie Smith at Leicester Square Hall, London.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Billiards Association and Control Council initially refused to accept the break since the match was not played under their rules. At the time, the professional game used a rule (now standard, see rules of snooker) whereby after a foul a player could compel the offender to play the next stroke. It was not until a meeting on 20 March 1957 that the break was officially recognised and Davis was presented with a certificate to commemorate his achievement.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The match between Davis and Smith was played as part of a series of events marking the closure of Leicester Square Hall; known as Thurston's Hall until 1947,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> the venue had hosted many important billiards and snooker matches since its opening in 1901, including twelve World Snooker Championship finals.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> John Spencer compiled a maximum break in the 1979 Holsten Lager International, but it did not count as an official maximum, however, as the break was made on a nonTemplate:Nbhtemplated table used during the event.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" /> The first official maximum break in professional competition was compiled by Steve Davis in the 1982 Classic at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in Oldham, against John Spencer.<ref name="Max 068" /> This was also the first televised maximum break.<ref name="Guinness_WR_147" /><ref name="Max 001" /> For his achievement, Davis won a Lada car provided by the event's sponsors.<ref name="Sporting_Life_History">Template:Cite news</ref> The following year, Cliff Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum at the World Championship in the fourth frame of his second round match against Terry Griffiths.<ref name="Sporting_Life_History" />
Before the [[1994–95 snooker season|1994Template:Nbnd95]] season, the maximum break remained a rare feat, with only 15 official maximums compiled altogether. However, beginning in the 1994Template:Nbnd95 season, at least one maximum break has been achieved every season thereafter. There were 13 maximums scored in each of the [[2016–17 snooker season|2016Template:Nbnd17]], [[2022–23 snooker season|2022Template:Nbnd23]] and [[2023–24 snooker season|2023Template:Nbnd24]] seasons. This was the highest number until the [[2024–25 snooker season|2024Template:Nbnd25]] season during which there were 15 maximums made.<ref name="WST_24_25_maximums">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Max 217" />
Mark Selby made the 100th officially recognised maximum break in professional competition on 7 December 2013 in the seventh frame of his semiTemplate:Nbhfinal match against Ricky Walden at the UK Championship.<ref name="Max 100" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Template:As of,<ref name="Max 231" /> 231 official maximum breaks have been recorded in professional competition,<ref name="WPBSA_Official_List" /><ref name="WST_Official_List" /> with the 200th being made by Joe O'Connor at the 2024 Championship League.<ref name="Max 200" /> Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan has compiled 17 official competitive maximum breaks, the most achieved by any professional player.<ref name="Max 221 & 222" /> Following him are John Higgins with 13, Stephen Hendry with 11, Shaun Murphy with 10, Stuart Bingham and Judd Trump with 9 and Ding Junhui with 7. O'Sullivan also holds the record for the fastest competitive maximum break at just over five minutes, which he set at the 1997 World Championship.<ref name="Deadspin_Tippett" />
On 30 April 2023, Selby made a maximum break in the 16th frame during the 2023 World Championship final against Luca Brecel, the first achieved in a World Championship final.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On 7 December 2023, Murphy made a maximum break in his firstTemplate:Nbhround match against Bulcsú Révész in the 2023 Shoot Out, the first ever compiled at the Shoot Out, which is played under a variation of snooker rules, with a shot clock and fouls awarding Template:Cuegloss.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Max 194" /> On 5 October 2024, in his winning run in event 3, Zhao Xintong made the first ever maximum break on the Q Tour, the secondary snooker tour that serves as a qualification route to the main professional tour, in his 4Template:Nbnd1 win over Shaun Liu.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
At least nine players have missed the final black on a score of 140: Robin Hull, Ken Doherty, Barry Pinches, Mark Selby,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Michael White,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (twice in the [[2015–16 snooker season|2015Template:Nbnd16 season]] and once in the [[2024–25 snooker season|2024Template:Nbnd25 season]]),Template:Refn Liang Wenbo in a qualifying match at the 2018 World Championship, after he had already made a maximum earlier in the same match,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and both Joe O'Connor and Jack Lisowski at the 2025 Championship League.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Breaks above 147 are possible when an opponent fouls and leaves a Template:Cuegloss with all 15 reds still remaining on the table. A break greater than 147 has happened only once in professional competition, when Jamie Burnett made a break of 148 at the qualifying stage of the 2004 UK Championship.<ref name="Burnett_148_Guardian" /><ref name="Burnett_148_BBC" /> Jamie Cope compiled a break of 155 points, the highest possible freeTemplate:Nbhball break, during practice in 2005.<ref name="Everton_Guardian">Template:Cite news</ref> Alex Higgins is said to have attained the same feat by some players.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Records
First maximums
The first known maximum break in practice was made by Murt O'Donoghue at Griffith, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, on 26 September 1934.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="GS_147club">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Joe Davis compiled the first official 147 against Willie Smith in an exhibition match on 22 January 1955 at Leicester Square Hall, London.<ref name="Guinness_WR_147">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Rex Williams made the first maximum break in a competitive match against Manuel Francisco, Professionals v. Amateurs, on 23 December 1965 in Cape Town.<ref name="GS_147club" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
John Spencer made the first maximum compiled in professional competition on 13 January 1979 at the Holsten Lager Tournament against Cliff Thorburn, but it was not officially ratified due to oversized pockets.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" /> The break was not caught on video as the television crew were away on a tea break.<ref name="GS_147club" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The first official maximum break in professional competition was made by Steve Davis in the 1982 Lada Classic against Spencer.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" /> This was also the first televised 147.<ref name="Guinness_WR_147" /> Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum break at the World Snooker Championship.<ref name="Max 002" />
In March 1989, Thorburn also became the first player to make two competitive maximum breaks. In November 1995 Hendry became the first player to make two televised maximum breaks.<ref name="CT_Archive_Max">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="GS_MaxFiles">Template:Cite web</ref> Mink Nutcharut made a 147 in a March 2019 practice match, believed to be the only maximum break achieved by a woman in any match.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
World Snooker Championship maximums
There have been 15 maximums made at the World Championship—at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England—by 11 players. Thorburn<ref name="Max 002" /> was followed by Jimmy White,<ref name="Max 012" /> Stephen Hendry (three times),<ref name="Max 017" /><ref name="Max 068" /><ref name="Max 088" /> Ronnie O'Sullivan (three times),<ref name="Max 020" /><ref name="Max 046" /><ref name="Max 062" /> Mark Williams,<ref name="Max 051" /> Ali Carter,<ref name="Max 063" /> John Higgins,<ref name="Max 157" /> Neil Robertson,<ref name="Max 176" /> Kyren Wilson,<ref name="Max 188" /> Mark Selby<ref name="Max 189" /> and Mark Allen.<ref name="Max 217" /> There have also been eight maximums made during qualifying for the World Championship, by six players. These were by Robert Milkins (twice),<ref name="Max 053" /><ref name="Max 087" /> Gary Wilson,<ref name="Max 131" /> Liang Wenbo,<ref name="Max 139" /> Graeme Dott,<ref name="Max 175" /> Noppon Saengkham<ref name="Max 202" /> and Jackson Page (twice in the same match).<ref name="Max 215" /><ref name="Max 216" />
Multiple maximums
More than one official maximum break has been compiled in the same event on more than twenty occasions. The first tournament with more than one maximum break was the 1992 Matchroom League, in which John Parrott and Stephen Hendry each made a 147 break.<ref name="Max 013 & 014" /><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The first time that two maximum breaks were made in the same ranking tournament was at the 1999 British Open, where Jason Prince made one during qualifying and Graeme Dott at the main event.<ref name="Max 025 & 029" /> This was repeated at the 2000 Scottish Open, with Stephen Maguire in qualifying and Ronnie O'Sullivan at the main event.<ref name="Max 037 & 038" /> The 2008 World Snooker Championship was the first event where two maximum breaks (by O'Sullivan and Carter) were televised.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Two maximum breaks (by Neil Robertson and Noppon Saengkham) were also televised at the 2019 Welsh Open.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Three official maximums at the same WPBSA (World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association) event have been achieved six times. The first was at the 2012 UK Championship, when Andy Hicks and Jack Lisowski both compiled one each in qualifying and John Higgins compiled one in the televised stages.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The second time was at the 2017 German Masters, where Ali Carter and Ross Muir both compiled one each during qualifying and Tom Ford during the televised stages.<ref name="Max 128" /> The third time was at the 2024 Championship League by Kyren Wilson in Group 3,<ref name="Max 197" /> by John Higgins in Group 5,<ref name="Max 198" /> and by Joe O'Connor in Group 7.<ref name="Max 200" /> The fourth time was at the 2025 Championship League by Jak Jones in Group 2,<ref name="Max 209" /> by David Gilbert in Group 7,<ref name="Max 211" /> and by Mark Selby in the Winners' Group.<ref name="Max 212" /> The fifth time was at the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, with Thepchaiya Un-Nooh compiling one in his third-round match,<ref name="Max 220" /> and O'Sullivan making a brace in the semi-final.<ref name="Max 221 & 222" /> The sixth time was at the 2025 Xi'an Grand Prix, where Zhou Yuelong made one in qualifying,<ref name="Max 225" /> and both Judd Trump and Aaron Hill made maximums at the main stage.<ref name="Max 229 & 230" />
The 2012 FFB Snooker Open,<ref name="Max 082 & 083" /> 2017 German Masters,<ref name="Max 125 & 126" /> 2018 Paul Hunter Classic,<ref name="Max 141" /> 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters,<ref name="BBC_2025.8.15" /> and 2025 Xi'an Grand Prix<ref name="Max 229 & 230" /> are the only events where two maximums were made on the same day.
Mark Davis, Jackson Page and Ronnie O'Sullivan are the only players to make two official maximum breaks in professional competition at the same event. Mark Davis became the first player to do so, when he compiled two 147s at the 2017 Championship League.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In the third round of the qualifying stage for the 2025 World Championship, Jackson Page made two maximums in his 10Template:Nbnd2 win over Allan Taylor, with the first in the eighth frame on 13 April 2025 and the second in the twelfth frame the following day.<ref name="Max 215" /><ref name="Max 216" /> This made him the first player to make two maximums in a professional competitive match.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Jackson_2maxis_BBC">Template:Cite news</ref> On 15 August 2025, in his 6–3 win over Chris Wakelin in the semi-finals of the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, Ronnie O'Sullivan made maximums in the first and seventh frames of the match, becoming the only player to make two maximums in a one-session match or on the same day.<ref name="BBC_2025.8.15" /><ref name="Max 221 & 222" />
There have been several noteworthy instances of multiple maximum breaks outside of sanctioned professional competition. Peter Ebdon compiled two maximum breaks during an 11Template:Nbhframe exhibition match at Eastbourne Police Club on 15 April 1996,Template:Citation needed and in 2003 he also compiled two consecutive maximum breaks against Steve Davis in an exhibition match.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" /><ref name="GS_147club" /> In 2009 Jimmy White and Ronnie O'Sullivan compiled consecutive maximum breaks at an exhibition match in Ireland,<ref name="Sp_Life_147s">Template:Cite web</ref> and later in the same year Mark King and Joe Jogia replicated the feat at the Grove Open.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The only known instance of more than two maximum breaks being compiled at a single event on the same day is during the Buckley's Bitter Challenge; three 147s were compiled on 8 February 1998, by Matthew Stevens, Ryan Day and Tony Chappel, but were not officially ratified.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The only player known to have made more than two maximum breaks on a single occasion is Adrian Gunnell, who compiled three maximums in four frames at a club in Telford in 2003 while practising against Ian Duffy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
John Higgins, Ronnie O'Sullivan and Thepchaiya Un-Nooh are the only players to record maximum breaks in consecutive ranking events. Higgins made maximums at the LG Cup and the British Open in 2003,<ref name="Max 047" /><ref name="Max 048" /> O'Sullivan at the Northern Ireland Trophy and another at the UK Championship in 2007,<ref name="Max 059" /><ref name="Max 060" /> and Un-Nooh at the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters and Wuhan Open in 2025.<ref name="Max 224" />
Deciding frames and tournament finals
Only ten maximums have been made in Template:Cuegloss. These are: Hendry's at the 1997 Charity Challenge,<ref name="Max 019" /> O'Sullivan's at the 2007 UK Championship,<ref name="Max 060" /> both of Mark Davis's at the 2017 Championship League,Template:Refn Martin Gould's at the 2018 Championship League,<ref name="Max 135" /> Ford's at the 2019 English Open,<ref name="Max 153" /> both Day's and John Higgins's at the 2020 Championship League,Template:Refn Marco Fu's at the 2022 Hong Kong Masters,<ref name="Max 180" /> and Shaun Murphy's at the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out.<ref name="Max 194" />
Hendry, John Higgins, Bingham, O'Sullivan, Murphy, Robertson, Judd Trump, Selby and Zhang Anda have made maximums in finals of tournaments. Hendry has made three: the first at the 1997 Charity Challenge,<ref name="Max 019" /> the second at the 1999 British Open<ref name="Max 030" /> and the third at the 2001 Malta Grand Prix.<ref name="Max 042" /> Higgins at the 2003 LG Cup<ref name="Max 047" /> and at the 2012 Shanghai Masters,<ref name="Max 091" /> Bingham at the 2012 Wuxi Classic,<ref name="Max 089" /> O'Sullivan at the 2014 Welsh Open,<ref name="Max 105" /> Murphy at the 2014 Ruhr Open,<ref name="Max 108" /> Robertson at the 2015 UK Championship,<ref name="Max 115" /> Trump at the 2022 Turkish Masters<ref name="Max 173" /> and the 2022 Champion of Champions<ref name="Max 181" /> and Zhang at the 2023 International Championship.<ref name="Max 192" /> Selby made a maximum in the 2023 World Championship final, becoming the first player to do so at that stage of the tournament.<ref name="Max 189" /> Selby's and Robertson's maximums are the only ones compiled in the finals of Triple Crown events.
Fastest
O'Sullivan's 147 break in the firstTemplate:Nbhround match against Mick Price at the 1997 World Championship set the record for the fastest maximum in the history of the game. For many years Guinness World Records recorded the time of the break at 5 minutes and 20 seconds.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> However an investigation undertaken by Deadspin in 2017 revealed that the time recorded by Guinness was incorrect because the timer was started too early on the BBC footage.<ref name="Deadspin_Tippett" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Breaks are not officially timed in snooker and the official rules of snooker do not specify how they should be timed, instead leaving the timing to the discretion of the broadcaster. The only timing methodology World Snooker sanctions in its events is the one employed in shot clock events where timing for a player's shot begins when the balls have come to rest from his opponent's previous shot. Under this convention the break would have been timed at 5 minutes and 15 seconds. World Snooker has since suggested that a break starts when the player strikes the cueball for the first time in a break which would result in a time of 5 minutes and 8 seconds; this is the time that both World Snooker and Guinness World Records now officially acknowledge.<ref name="Max 020" /><ref name="Guinness_fastest">Template:Cite web</ref>
Youngest and oldest
The youngest player to have made an officially recognised maximum break in professional competition is Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon, who compiled a 147 at the [[Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 3|2010 RheinTemplate:NbndMain Masters]] aged Template:Age in years and days.<ref name="CT_Archive_Records">Template:Cite web</ref> Sean Maddocks is recognised by Guinness World Records as the youngest player to make a maximum break in any recognised competition. Maddocks was Template:Age in years and days old when he achieved the feat at the LiteTask ProTemplate:NbhAm series in Leeds on 9 July 2017.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Judd Trump is known to have made a 147 at the Potters UnderTemplate:Nbh16 Tournament in 2004 at the age of Template:Age in years and days; however, this break is not recognised by Guinness World Records.<ref name="CT_Archive_Records" /> The youngest player to have made a televised maximum is Ding Junhui, who was aged Template:Age in years and days when he achieved a 147 at the 2007 Masters.<ref name="Max 055" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The oldest player to have made a maximum in professional competition is Ronnie O'Sullivan, who made two 147 breaks in his 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters semi-final against Chris Wakelin, when he was aged 49 years and 253 days.<ref name="BBC_2025.8.15">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Max 221 & 222" /> Former professional Darren Morgan made a maximum break in an amateur Seniors event in 2023 at the age of Template:Age in years and days; this possibly makes him the oldest player to achieve a maximum break in competition.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Prize money
In professional tournaments there was usually a substantial prize awarded to any player achieving a 147 break. For example, Ronnie O'Sullivan's maximum at the 1997 World Championship earned him £165,000. Of this, £147,000 was for making the 147 break and £18,000 was for achieving the highest break of the tournament.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In the [[2011–12 snooker season|2011Template:Nbnd12 season]] World Snooker introduced a rollTemplate:Nbhover system for the maximum break prize money, the "rolling 147 prize".<ref name="WST_Rolling_147">Template:Cite web</ref> A maximum break is worth £5,000 in the televised stages and £500 in qualifying stages of major ranking events. There is a £500 prize in the Players Tour Championship events from the last 128 onwards.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> If a maximum is not made then the prize rolls over to the next event until somebody wins it.<ref name="WST_Rolling_147" />Template:Update inline
At the 2016 Welsh Open, Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Barry Pinches 4Template:Nbnd1 in the first round. In the fifth frame of the match, O'Sullivan declined the opportunity to make a maximum break, potting the pink off the penultimate red and completing a break of 146. He stated afterwards that the prize money of £10,000 was not worthy of a 147. World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn called the decision "unacceptable" and "disrespectful".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Individual prizes for a maximum break in the vast majority of tournaments have generally been phased out, since the start of the [[2019–20 snooker season|2019Template:Nbnd20 season]]: during that season, a £1 million bonus was offered if 20 or more were made during the season.<ref name="WST_19_more">Template:Cite web</ref> The prize would be split among all players who had made at least one qualifying break, with each player receiving an equal share for every break made.<ref name="WST_19_more" /> The bonus was not claimed, and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic later that season, it was discontinued and has not since been re-offered. Despite maximum break prizes being phased out in most cases, they have been partially re-introduced at the World Snooker Championship, where £40,000 is now offered to those who compile one at the main stages of the tournament.
Beginning with the [[2023–24 snooker season|2023Template:Nbnd24 season]], WST has started offering a £147,000 bonus to any player making two maximum breaks during the season's Triple Crown events.<ref name="147k_prize_2023">Template:Cite web</ref> Since the [[2024–25 snooker season|2024Template:Nbnd25 season]], the bonus has been extended to include any maximum breaks made at the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters.<ref name="147k_prize_saudi">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="147k_prize_25-26">Template:Cite web</ref> As of 2025, this prize has been awarded twice: first when Jackson Page made two maximums in the same match during the 2025 World Snooker Championship qualifying; second when O'Sullivan made two maximums in the same match at the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters.<ref name="Max 216" /><ref name="Jackson_2maxis_BBC"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="BBC_2025.8.15" />
Breaks exceeding 147
A break higher than 147 can be achieved when an opponent Template:Cuegloss before any reds are potted and leaves the incoming player Template:Cuegloss on all 15 reds. The player can nominate one of the other Template:Cuegloss as a red, known as a Template:Cuegloss, which carries the same value as a red for just that shot. If the free ball is potted, the referee places this coloured ball back on its original location, de facto creating a setup as if there were 16 reds in total, thus creating a potential maximum break of 155 if a player starts from a free ball position.<ref name="Max 100" />
In October 2004, during qualifying for the UK Championship, Jamie Burnett became the only player to record a break of more than 147 in tournament play, when he scored 148 against Leo Fernandez. He took the brown as the free ball, then potted the brown again followed by the 15 reds with 12 blacks, two pinks and a blue, then the six colours.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" /><ref name="Burnett_148_Guardian">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Burnett_148_BBC">Template:Cite news</ref>
Some breaks exceeding 147 have been reported in nonTemplate:Nbhtournament settings:
- A 151 is reported to have been compiled by Wally West against Butch Rogers in West London's Hounslow Luciana snooker club during a club match in 1976. After Rogers fouled, West took the green as his free ball followed by the brown. He then took 14 reds and blacks and a pink off the last red. He then cleared up to make the 151.<ref name="snooker.org_Records">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- In April 1988 Steve Duggan made a 148 in a practice frame against Mark Rowing in Doncaster.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" /><ref name="Independent_Q&A">Template:Cite news</ref>
- In 1993 Stephen Hendry made a 148 in a practice match against Alfie Burden.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" />
- In 1995 Tony Drago made a 149 in practice against Nick Manning in West Norwood, London, that was recorded by the Guinness Book of Records as the highest in this category. In that Template:Cuegloss Drago nominated the Template:Cuegloss as the free ball, to score one point. He then potted the brown again, for four more points, before potting the 15 reds with 13 blacks, a Template:Cuegloss and a Template:Cuegloss, then all the colours.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" /><ref name="Independent_Q&A" />
- In 1997 Eddie Manning achieved a 149 break in a practice match against Kam Pandya at Willie Thorne's Snooker Club in Leicester. He potted brown, brown, 13 blacks, pink and blue.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" />
- In April 2003 Jamie Cope made a 151 break at The Reardon Snooker Club during a practice game with David FommTemplate:NbhWard. After a foul by his opponent, Cope was snookered behind the brown ball. He took the brown as the free ball and then potted the blue, 13 reds with blacks and two with pinks, then the six colours.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" />
- In 2005, Jamie Cope made snooker's first highest possible 155 break in a witnessed practice frame.<ref name="Everton_Guardian" />
- In November 2010 Sam Harvey made a 151 break in a practice match against Kyren Wilson at his home club in Bedford. Harvey potted the brown as the free ball and then the black, 12 reds with blacks, two with pinks and one with blue, then the six colours.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- In August 2021, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh made a 155 break in a practice match against Hossein Vafaei. The feat was filmed by a security camera.<ref name="snooker.org_Records" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- In March 2022, Marco Fu made a 149 break in a practice match against Noppon Saengkham at the Ding Junhui Snooker Academy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
List of official maximum breaks
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Note: (Q) indicates maximums made during qualifying stages of events. (F) indicates maximums made in tournament finals. (L) indicates that the match was lost by the player who made the maximum.
List of players with five or more maximums
Below is a list of players who have made five or more maximum breaks, Template:As of.<ref name="WPBSA_Official_List" /><ref name="WST_Official_List" /> Template:Anchor Template:Sticky header
| No. | Player | Number | Most recent | Template:Tooltip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Template:Sortname | 17 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 221 & 222" /> |
| 2 | Template:Sortname | 13 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 198" /> |
| 3 | Template:Sortname | 11 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 088" /> |
| 4 | Template:Sortname | 10 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 214" /> |
| 5 | Template:Sortname | 9 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 174" /> |
| Template:Sortname | 9 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 229 & 230" /> | |
| 7 | Template:Sortname | 7 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 195" /> |
| 8 | Template:Sortname | 6 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 212" /> |
| Template:Sortname | 6 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 224" /> | |
| Template:Sortname | 6 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 228" /> | |
| 11 | Template:Sortname | 5 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 153" /> |
| Template:Sortname | 5 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 176" /> | |
| Template:Sortname | 5 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 180" /> | |
| Template:Sortname | 5 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 197" /> | |
| Template:Sortname | 5 | Template:Dts | <ref name="Max 217" /> |
See also
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- Nine-dart finish in darts
- Hole in one in golf
- Perfect game in bowling
- Perfect game in baseball
- Golden set in tennis
Notes
References
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