Here are Steve and Tim winners of Gold Medal and “Golden Ticket to Nationals” at the 2023 Newport Beach Qualifier tournament,
wearing their PickleTime Scorekeepers, an award they repeated at the 2024 and 2025 Newport Beach Qualifier tournaments.
Hi, I’m Tim, one of the co-founders of PickleTime. My first time playing pickleball was in about 2012 when I visited my cousin in Las Vegas, who lived in a retirement community with pickleball.
I loved pickleball from the first time I played it.
I started playing regularly in 2015 when an athletic club in Portland to which I belong started a program. But I found it was harder to keep track of the score than it was to play the game.
Thus the idea:
A scorekeeper for pickleball
I started with a crude prototype composed of a rotatable bottle cap that pointed to segments of a circle drawn with a marking pen on a piece of plastic cut out of a one gallon milk carton. All of that strapped to my wrist. Now I could keep track of who was serving and whether the server was the first or second server.
Then I finally convinced Steve, my long-time table tennis and tennis friend to give pickleball a try. He too loved it from the beginning and saw some ways to improve my mechanical scorekeeper and a way to make it digital. Then we joined with Markus, who has an electronics background and the three of us co-founded the company.
Now, more than three years since my first idea, we have both a mechanical and digital pickleball scorekeeper.
PickleTime PTDS-1 Digital Scorekeeper Watch
They’re not much bigger than a wristwatch and tell you the score, the server, the server number, and the correct position of every player.
All of this on the digital unit by pressing one of two buttons after each rally and on the mechanical unit by turning one of three dials after each rally.
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Our PickleTime™ Digital Pickleball Scorekeeper offers Doubles, Singles, Side out Scoring, and Rally Scoring.
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The PickleTime™ Digital Scorekeeper includes an easy to replace, commonly available CR2032 button battery; on-screen low-battery warning, and game-memory when changing batteries; typically months between needed battery replacement.
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Our PickleTime™ Mechanical Pickleball Scorekeeper offers Doubles/Side out Scoring.
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The PickleTime™ Mechanical Scorekeeper is ready to use with no battery necessary.
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Unique Features
Shared Features
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Both our PickleTime™ Pickleball Scorekeepers display score, server, server number, and player positions. These features provide players with an easy way to keep track of the score while keeping your head in the game.
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Both our Digital and Mechanical PickleTime™ Pickleball Scorekeepers feature an adjustable size stretch wristband to provide a comfortable fit for small to large wrists.
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All of our PickleTime™ products are proudly designed and engineered in the USA by actual pickleball players.
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We stand by our PickleTime™ Pickleball Scorekeepers quality and offer a 12 year limited warranty with every purchase.