# Law 3: Testing a Shuttle for Speed (BWF Laws of Badminton)

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The speed test: the stroke, where and how the shuttle is hit, and the landing zone that shows a shuttle of correct speed.

## 3.31 The Speed Test

The full underhand stroke from over the back boundary line and the 530-990 mm landing zone.

### Test 1: How a shuttle is tested for speed and how the result is read

- The tester uses a full underhand stroke. (Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.1)
- Contact is made with the shuttle over the back boundary line. (Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.1)
- The shuttle is hit in a direction parallel to the side lines. (Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.1)
- The shuttle is hit at an upward angle. (Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.1)
- A shuttle of correct speed lands between 530 and 990 mm short of the other back boundary line. (Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.2)
- Correct speed lands at least 530 mm short; 400 mm short means it carried too far. (Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.2)
- Law 3.2 sets the zone: no nearer than 530 mm to that line and no farther than 990 mm from it. (Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.2, Diagram B)
- Contact over the back boundary line, an upward underhand hit parallel to the side lines, then the landing is measured short of the far back boundary line. (Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.1, 3.2)
- The testing marks of Diagram B sit 530 mm and 950 mm in; the doubles long service line lies between them at 0.76 m. (Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.2, Diagram B)
- Landing more than 990 mm short of the far back boundary line means the shuttle is too slow. (Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.2)

Sources: BWF Laws of Badminton, V6.0 in force 4 January 2027, Law 3 and Diagram B (paraphrased in original wording; original questions authored from the Laws, not reproduced)

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