keep score

keep score (third-person singular simple present keeps score, present participle keeping score, simple past and past participle kept score)

1. (sports, games) To keep track of the score in a game.
2. (extended) To keep track of numbers in various other contexts.
   • 1998 August 19, rena, “what's the deal??”, in alt.support.depression.flame (Usenet newsgroup)‎:

     i never, EVER entered into a friendship with the idea that i was *owed* anything by that person. i never "kept score". not ever.

   • 2000 August 12, meg...@abacom.com, “Inner Voice”, in sci.philosophy.meta (Usenet newsgroup)‎:

     I've been praying on my own since very, very young [...] but it "degenerated" in me talking to God direct [...] and asking various things for others, sometimes for myself. It worked very often but I never kept score.

• scorekeeper