# Why does the hook trick always score so high?

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**Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks\
**Created:** [December 13, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-does-the-hook-trick-always-score-so-high/390185 "2023-12-13T21:22:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![BART1208](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@BART1208](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/BART1208)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-does-the-hook-trick-always-score-so-high/390185/1 "2023-12-13T21:22:25Z")

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The “Hook” trick always scores so high, and hooks are in almost all routines these days. How did it score so highly?

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**Author:** ![fradiger](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/fradiger/32/66850_2.png) [@fradiger](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/fradiger)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-does-the-hook-trick-always-score-so-high/390185/2 "2023-12-13T21:42:27Z")

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not a clicking expert by any means but to me it’s just kind of an iconic trick at this point, and I think it’s REALLY easy to see as a judge and recognize/score accurately

bullet point reasoning:

- super obvious when someone is doing a hook, it’s a very well recognized trick and literally impossible to miss it when judging
- variants that are all difficult (positive, negative, horizontal, zoning-based catches like over the head or something idk)
- has a certain level of risk
- 1.0 hook is a pretty understandable element and the difficulty ramps up from 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc.
- trick is approachable to learn, can start with 1.0 and work your way up. lots of other high clicking whip/laceration elements are by comparison much harder to approach/learn (iwasawa tower for example)
- also just since it scores high, more people put it in routines, and so we just see it everywhere now

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**Author:** ![GTDropKnot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gtdropknot/32/212400_2.png) [@GTDropKnot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GTDropKnot)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-does-the-hook-trick-always-score-so-high/390185/3 "2023-12-13T22:55:56Z")

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In addition to what frad said,  
Clicks = difficulty (and variety bc repeats get less)

High hooks are really difficult and also efficient bc they take like no time.