A paintball loader, also known as a paintball hopper, is attached to the top of most modern paintball guns to feed them consistently with paintballs. Ranging from inexpensive, gravity-fed paintball hoppers holding approximately 200 paintballs and opening and closing with a flip-lid to electronic, tournament-level paintball loaders feeding in excess of 15 paintballs per second to supply even the fastest paintball markers, a quality paintball guns will greatly benefit from the use of an electronic paintball loader or hopper to ensure consistent, jam-free feeding.