It's like the 4 minute mile, once you conquer it, it'll be a piece of cake the next time. Nug set a high score on Asteroid Annie, and I played the thing for weeks and couldn't quite make it. Then that one good ball and I did it easily. Topped it a number of times after that pretty quickly.
So don't give up - it's all in the mind (unless you're our "The game went into ball search" friend).