How to Reach the Top 10 Leaderboard

Only your single best run counts. Consistency does not move you up the board — one exceptional run does. That changes how you should practise: a player with a 45 average and an occasional 120 outranks a player who reliably scores 80 every time.

Scores are submitted at the end of a run and validated on our servers, not in your browser, so an edited page cannot inject a score. Runs that finish impossibly fast for the score claimed are discarded.

Your leaderboard name is chosen once and reused for every run and every 1v1 duel. Names pass through a profanity filter that also normalises letter-for-number substitutions, so disguised spellings are rejected too. Pick something short — long names get truncated in the ranking rows on small phones.

You can play the whole game without an account. A name is only needed if you want to appear publicly on the board.

Top-10 runs are usually not made of better reflexes. They are made of two things: entering the speed ramp with a calm rhythm, and refusing to take any risk that is not required. Every gem detour, every ceiling hug and every panic tap is a percentage point off the chance of a record run.

• Week 1 — position. Every session, five runs where the only objective is staying in the middle third of the screen.
• Week 2 — rhythm. Count a steady beat out loud, one tap per beat, one extra tap only when you drop low.
• Week 3 — vision. Look at the next gap, never the beast. This is the change that unlocks the late game.
• Week 4 — record attempts. Warm up with two runs, then take ten serious attempts. Stop when you feel tired rather than when you feel annoyed.

Extra lives and Phoenix Revive extend a run, so yes, they raise the ceiling of a single attempt. They do not raise your skill level, and a player who leans on revives usually stalls once the speed ramp outpaces their rhythm. Treat them as a way to see the late game more often while you are learning it — the detail is in the upgrades guide.

A 1v1 duel puts a real opponent on the same pipe layout. Nothing exposes a shaky rhythm faster than watching someone else clear the gap you just clipped. Try a duel once a session.

Compare your best run with the world records page, read the 100-point guide, then check today's top 10.