Archery GB renamed your rounds
Biggest addition
If you shoot a Long Metric this season, it's got a new name. Archery GB has released updated classification tables for 2026, which they describe as "minor updates which cover" some new World Archery Under-15 rounds, a tidied-up gender label, and a handful of corrections. Minor on their side, a bit of work on mine to keep up. The renames you'll spot first:
- Long Metric (Men) → Long Metric (90m)
- Long Metric (Women) and the old Long Metric I → Long Metric (70m)
Same arrows, same distances, a name that finally says what it is.
Search for a Long Metric now and you'll find it under its 2026 name, with the distances spelled out.
Here's the bit that matters: your old scores didn't go anywhere. If you've got a stack of Long Metrics in your history under the old names, Fast quietly maps them onto the new ones when it loads them. You won't see a gap, a broken round, or a score that suddenly can't work out what it was. Open any old shoot and it reads exactly as it always did.
Archery GB also retired the "Male" label this year in favour of "Open". So the gender chip on your profile now reads Open rather than Male. Nothing about your stored profile changed, and your classifications are still worked out against the same table they always were. It's the wording on the screen catching up with the wording on the official paperwork.
There's a little more under the surface too: a set of new Under-15 Prestige rounds (the WA 30m Barebow, and the 40m rounds for compound, recurve and longbow) so younger archers shooting those rounds get a classification out of Fast instead of a shrug.
Worth being honest about where this comes from: I don't work these tables out by hand. The numbers behind every classification in Fast are built on archeryutils, an open project run by Jack Atkinson, and he did the work of folding the 2026 changes in. Fast stands on that, and it's the reason the new tables showed up here quickly and correct rather than after a winter of me squinting at spreadsheets.
Take your diary into a spreadsheet
Your diary in Fast is where the useful, awkward-to-quantify stuff lives. The note you made about relaxing on the draw, the location, the weather, the reflection after a shoot that went sideways. There's now an Export button on the Diary page that hands all of it back to you as a CSV, ready to open in a spreadsheet.
Tap Export and every note comes out as a row, sitting next to the shoot it belongs to.
Each note becomes one row, joined up with the shoot it sits against: the date, the round, the score, the location, the conditions, and what you wrote. Per-end notes from a shoot and standalone diary entries both come along. Once it's in a spreadsheet it's yours to slice however you like. Do you score worse in a headwind? Did that week you spent fixing your bracing height actually show up on the scoreboard? Fast doesn't answer those for you yet, but now it'll hand you the raw material so you can go looking. It's a plain CSV, so it opens in whatever you already use, a spreadsheet on your laptop or something cleverer if that's your thing. Your notes, your data, no lock-in.
The smaller things that add up
- One tap to install Fast. If your browser supports it, you'll now see an Install button right in the navigation. Tap it and your phone adds Fast to your home screen, no fishing around in browser menus. After that it opens like any other app.
- Hiding your totals is obvious now. If you turn off your running totals to keep the pressure off mid-shoot, the total cell shows a dashed placeholder instead of just vanishing, so you can see at a glance that it's switched off on purpose. The "Show totals" button is highlighted too, so getting them back is easy to find.
Bug fixes
- Scores sent to Golden Records now carry the right details. When you upload a score, Fast now tells the records system whether the shoot was qualifying and record-qualifying, which it needs to file the score correctly. Before, those went missing and the upload couldn't be slotted in where it belonged.
- Old records open without a fuss. Opening a shoot whose round had since been renamed or retired could crash the app. It now heals the name and shows you the shoot like nothing happened, which is exactly what you'd want the week a pile of rounds got new names.
What's next
Most of this fortnight went on keeping Fast in step with Archery GB, so the numbers you see match the numbers everyone else is working from. That's worth doing quietly and getting right.
If a round looks wrong, a classification doesn't match what you expected, or you spot something I've missed, let me know on Facebook. Thanks, as ever, to everyone testing.