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\section{Introduction}  Paintball has beeng gaining significant ground in popularity in Canada, the US and around the world. In 2010, it was estimated that over 15 million people play paintball every year in the United States\cite{EmpirePaintball}. States \cite{EmpirePaintball}.  It is a sport in which players attempt to eliminate their opponents by tagging them with paintballs. The capsules filled with dye are fired through paintball markers powered by compressed air. In light of the popularity of the sport, this paper seeks to examine the relationship between shooting distance and shooting speed, and shooting distance and shooting accuracy. In this experiment, participants were asked to fire five paintballs at a target at 10, 20 and 30 m, and accuracy and shooting time was recorded. Accuracy was determined by measuring the distance from the centre of the paintball mark to the centre of the target. Speed was measured as the time between the first and last shot being fired.