There are four strokes that you can swim at a swim meet. These strokes are butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. There is one other kind of race you can swim at a meet though. This race, the IM, is mixture of all the strokes. You swim a lap or more of every stroke. There is a certain order you need to swim them in though. This order is butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and then freestyle.
People have argued over which stroke is the easiest and which stroke is the hardest. To tell you the truth, there’s not a right answer. Everyone has a different stroke that they struggle with and a stroke that they do really good in. For some people they might have difficulty with butterfly and be great at breaststroke, meanwhile it might be the exact opposite for one of their friends. The strokes you are the best at can change as you improve the other strokes to though. For example, when I first started swimming my best stroke was backstroke, but now that I have improved my techniques my best stroke is freestyle. Freestyle is the one stroke that just about everyone is good at. Some people have a better freestyle than others though.
