Questions, answered

Open the Steps tab, tap the day you want, and type the number in. That's it — it saves straight away and your dashboard, your team total and the leaderboard all update.

Yes. Any day from the start of the challenge up to today can be filled in at any point. Most people log in batches rather than every single evening, and that's completely fine.

Yes — your own days are always yours to correct, as many times as you like. Your team captain can also edit your days, which is mainly there so they can help someone who is stuck.

Future days are locked until they arrive. If you tap one you'll get told it isn't available yet.

Wherever you already track it — your phone's health app, a watch, a pedometer. There's no device to connect and nothing to sync; you read the number and type it in.

By average steps per day, not by total. Your score is your steps divided by the number of days the challenge has run so far. A team's score is the same idea one level up: the team's steps divided by the number of people who have logged, then by the days so far — which is the same as averaging its walkers' scores.

Because teams are scored on the average per person per day rather than the pile of steps. A team of four who all walk a lot will beat a team of forty who mostly don't — otherwise the biggest team would simply win every year.

Yes. Every day of the challenge counts whether you logged it or not, so a missed day pulls your average down, and your team's with it. The one thing that is not counted against a team is a member who never logs at all — they are left out of the team's average rather than counted as a zero, so nobody is dragging their team down by not taking part.

Roughly 2,000 steps to the mile. It's a rule of thumb for a sense of distance covered, not a measured route.

Everyone in the challenge. Individual and team leaderboards are visible to all participants, and daily activity shows up in the feed. It's a shared challenge, so treat your numbers as public.

The friendly bot in your feed. It posts when the challenge starts and finishes, marks milestones along the way, and nudges the team when things go quiet.

There's a short grace period so people can finish filling in their last days. After that the standings are frozen and a results page opens with the winning team, the top individuals and each team's MVP.

That usually means you aren't on a team yet, or your team hasn't been entered into a challenge. Ask whoever invited you — your team captain can sort out both.

Yes — there's nothing to pay to take part. It's built and run as a side project, and the running costs come out of the developer's pocket. If you'd like to chip in, there's a coffee link below. It's entirely optional, and nothing about the challenge changes either way.

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