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# Drop your worst days with Best days

> How a Best days competition drops each person's worst days, which scoring methods it works with, how many days you can drop, and a worked example.

**Best days** is an option a host can turn on when creating a competition. Each person's worst days stop counting toward their total, so one sick day or travel day doesn't decide the race. Hosting it needs a Membership or Pro. Anyone can join. It works on iPhone and Android.

## Turn it on

1. Start a new competition and pick **Compete**.
2. Pick **Total Activity**, or **Head to Head** with Steps, Calories, or Exercise.
3. Pick dates. The competition must be at least 3 days long.
4. On **Public or private?**, turn on **Best days**. Its note reads "Only each person's best days count toward their total."
5. Set **Days to drop**. The preview reads, for example, **Drop each person's worst 2 days**.
6. Finish and tap **Create competition**.

If you're on the Free plan, **Best days** shows a **MEMBER** label, and tapping it opens the upgrade screen.

## Rules

| Rule | Detail |
| - | - |
| Works with | Total Activity, and Head to Head on Steps, Calories, or Exercise |
| Doesn't work with | Ring Close Count, Workout Count, Percentage of Goals, Personal Goal, Stick To It, Distance, Sleep, Collective, or team competitions |
| Days you can drop | At least 1, at most half the competition's days, rounded down. A 7-day competition can drop up to 3. |
| Monthly repeat | A monthly round can be as short as 28 days, so it can drop at most 14. |
| Starting number | When you turn it on, it starts at 1 day per full week. |
| Repeating competitions | The same number of days is dropped in every round. |
| After creating | Best days and the number of days can't be changed. |

## How your total works

Your total is the sum of your best days. The number of days that count is the competition's length minus the days dropped. A day with no synced data at all isn't one of your days, so nothing is dropped until you have more days of data than the number that count.

**Example:** a 7-day Steps race drops 2 days, so your best 5 days count.

| Day | Steps | Counts? |
| - | - | - |
| Mon | 10,000 | Yes |
| Tue | 2,000 | No (one of your worst) |
| Wed | 12,000 | Yes |
| Thu | 8,000 | Yes |
| Fri | No data | No |
| Sat | 9,000 | Yes |
| Sun | 11,000 | Yes |

Your total is `12,000 + 11,000 + 10,000 + 9,000 + 8,000 = 50,000` points. Without Best days it would be 52,000.

Partway through, after Thursday, you'd have only 4 days of data. That's fewer than the 5 that count, so all 4 count: 32,000 points.

## What you'll see

* The leaderboard shows a chip such as **Worst 2 days dropped**. Tap it to see an explanation.
* In the daily breakdown, a day that doesn't count is marked **Not counted**.
* Which days count can change as new days sync. A great day later in the week can push an earlier day out.

## Something not right?

* The app says "Best days doesn't work with team competitions yet.": turn off **Team competition**.
* The app says "Best days needs a competition of at least 3 days.": make the competition longer.
* The app says you can drop at most a number of days: lower **Days to drop** to that number.
* You can't find **Best days**: it only appears for Total Activity and for Head to Head on Steps, Calories, or Exercise.
* A day shows **Not counted**: it's one of your lowest days. That's expected.
* More help: [competition issues](https://docs.movetogetherfitness.com/troubleshooting/competition-issues.md) and the [scoring reference](https://docs.movetogetherfitness.com/competitions/scoring-reference.md).


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