How points add up
- Each day gets its own score. Your total is the sum of your daily scores across the competition dates.
- A day runs midnight to midnight in your own time zone.
- Scores are calculated on MoveTogether’s servers from what your phone syncs from Apple Health (iPhone) or Health Connect (Android).
- Steps, workouts, and sleep typed in by hand never count.
- With Best days on, only each person’s best days count toward their total.
The methods at a glance
The host picks one on How are points scored? when creating a Compete competition. A Collective competition has no scoring method.
After a competition is created, a Head to Head competition is named by its metric: Step Count, Calorie Burn, Exercise Minutes, or Sleep. A Workout Count competition with a workout goal is called Workout Goal. On iPhone, the competition info screen calls Total Activity Raw Numbers. It’s the same method.
Ring Close Count
Each day, you score 1 point for each of your own daily goals you reach: Move (active calories), Exercise (minutes), and Steps. The most is 3 points a day. Reaching a goal exactly counts. Going far past it doesn’t add more. Each person is scored against their own goals. If someone has no goal set, MoveTogether uses 500 Move calories, 30 Exercise minutes, and 8,000 steps. To change yours, see setting goals. Example: your goals are 500 calories, 30 minutes, and 8,000 steps. You burn 520 calories, exercise for 25 minutes, and walk 9,000 steps. Move and Steps are reached, Exercise isn’t, so the day scores 2 points.Head to Head
Head to Head races on one number. The host picks it on Pick the metric: Steps, Calories, Exercise, or Sleep. Highest total wins.
Sleep has its own rules about which night counts, naps, and which devices count. See Sleep competitions.
Example over a week: in a Steps race, you walk 9,000, 6,500, 11,200, 8,000, 7,300, 12,000, and 10,000 steps. Your total is 64,000 points.
Workout Count
You score 1 point on any day with either:- one recorded workout longer than 15 minutes, or
- more than 15 exercise minutes in total.
Add a workout goal
The host can turn on Set a workout goal and answer How many workouts? Everyone who reaches that number finishes, and the leaderboard keeps running underneath. Points don’t change. It’s free to host. The number can’t be more than the number of days in the competition.Percentage of Goals
Each ring scores the percentage of your own goal you reached, up to 100. The three are added, so a perfect day is 300 points. Scores keep two decimal places. Example: you reach 50% of your Move goal, 100% of Exercise, and 75% of Steps. The day scores50 + 100 + 75 = 225 points. Reaching 150% of a goal still adds 100, not 150, so nobody runs away with the board on one ring.
Total Activity
Every active calorie, every exercise minute, and every 100 steps is worth 1 point. Steps are divided by 100 and rounded to the nearest whole number (a half rounds up). Example: 420 active calories, 35 exercise minutes, and 8,250 steps scores420 + 35 + round(82.5) = 420 + 35 + 83 = 538 points.
Personal Goal
The host picks Steps, Calories, or Exercise Minutes and sets a range. Each player then picks their own goal inside that range and taps Set my goal. Your daily score is the percentage of your goal you reached, up to 100, with two decimal places.- Your goal locks once you set it.
- Until you set a goal, you score 0.
- The top of the range can be at most 3 times the bottom. For example, 5,000 to 15,000 steps is allowed, and 5,000 to 20,000 isn’t.
Stick To It
The host sets one daily goal for everyone (Hit this every day) on Steps, Calories, or Exercise Minutes. Reaching it scores 1 point for the day. Missing it scores 0. Reaching it exactly counts. Going over doesn’t earn extra. The host also answers On how many days? That’s the group’s headline target, such as 20 of 30 days. It doesn’t change points. Example: in a 7-day competition with an 8,000-step daily goal, you hit at least 8,000 steps on 5 days. You score 5 points.Distance
Distance scores 1 point per meter in recorded workouts. The host picks Runs or Runs and walks. Everyday steps don’t add distance, and a workout saved by two apps counts once. Results show in miles or kilometers if the host chose that. Example: in a Runs and walks competition, a 5 km run and a 2 km walk on the same day score 7,000 points. In a Runs competition, the same day scores 5,000. Distance also has an optional target to qualify. See Distance competitions.Best days
Best days isn’t a scoring method. It’s an option on Total Activity and on Head to Head with Steps, Calories, or Exercise. It drops each person’s worst days from their total. See Best days competitions for the rules and an example.Older and retired methods
- Move Ring Close scores 1 point on a day you reach your Move goal. You may still see it on older competitions.
- WHOOP Strain is retired. You can’t create one. One that already exists keeps scoring until it ends, and if it was set to repeat, it doesn’t start another round.
- Competitions made before the Compete and Collective choice existed may have a race and a shared goal at once. They keep working that way.
Fairness across devices
Every device’s data reaches MoveTogether the same way, through Apple Health or Health Connect. Most methods score the same Move, Exercise, and Steps numbers you see in the app. Two read more:- Workout Count also checks recorded workouts.
- Distance reads only the distance in recorded workouts.
Something not right?
- Points seem low: open the app so it syncs, then compare your day with the method above. See competition issues.
- Your numbers don’t match your tracker’s app: see why numbers differ from your tracker.
- Scoring changed mid-competition: see changing competition scoring.