Pinewood Derby Scoring Spreadsheet




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ScoutDB has developed a Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to automate Pinewood Derby scoring.  We're pleased to make this available to cub scout packs to help them hold a better Pinewood Derby  This spreadsheet handle up to 15 cars in three lanes or four lanes.  Each car races three or four times, once in each lane.

The races are based on the Young and Pope Pinewood Racing Charts. Instructions and derby tips are included with the spreadsheet.  This scoring spreadsheet is offered as is without warranty.  If you find any errors or have suggestions feel free to drop us a line at .

Download the Pinewood Derby scoring spreadsheet by clicking on the link below:

pinewood_scoring_3_lane.xls (17 Jan 2005)

pinewood_scoring_4_lane.xls (17 Jan 2005)

Other Pinewood Derby Scoring Resources

Young and Pope Pinewood Racing Charts - This is a really nifty site that generates Partial Perfect-N (PPN) Charts.  You enter the number of racers and lanes and it generates the proper forms for printing.  Neat!

Conducting Pinewood Derbies - This page has a lot of links to other sites with various scoring methods.

Pinewood Derby Spreadsheet - Another site with a pinewood derby scoring spreadsheet.  Includes a 4 lane version.

Race Track - "The Free Scout Race Management Software".  This is a race scoring application written in Java.  Cool!

Stearns Method Pinewood Derby - Free DOS software and spreadsheets for the Stearns method of organizing heats

Computerized Pinewood Derby Finish Line Detector - Plans and code for a simple home built finish line detector.

A Pinewood Derby Timer - Plans and code for a BasicX based race timer.

Fast Track from MicroWizard - Commercial pinewood derby finish line timer

RaceView - Pinewood derby manager software


Suggestions for more?  Drop me a note.


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