Focus leaderboard

How the board works

The leaderboard ranks people by effective focus minutes — the total length of the work sessions you actually finished. A session only counts once the timer reaches zero; sessions you skip or abandon are ignored entirely. That is deliberate: the board is meant to reward finishing, because finishing is the habit the Pomodoro technique is built around.

Each individual session counts for at most 60 minutes. That cap exists so a single very long block cannot outrank a week of consistent work. If you prefer 90-minute deep-work blocks, they still count — just capped at 60 apiece — so the fastest way up the board is more sessions rather than longer ones. A second ceiling caps any one person at 12 hours of effective focus per day, which exists purely to keep bad data from distorting the standings.

Ties break on session count first, then on who reached the total earliest. Every window is measured in UTC — days reset at midnight UTC, weeks on Monday, months on the 1st — so that the podium is the same fact for everyone, regardless of timezone.

Getting on it, and getting off it

Sign in and complete one focus session. You will appear under a randomly generated nickname like Quiet Otter — assigned automatically, not derived from anything about you. Your email address, Google account ID and the task names you type are never published. If you would rather show the display name you set in Preferences, you can switch to it; the nickname is the default precisely so nothing personal is published by accident.

Don't want to be listed at all? Open Preferences → Account and turn off Show me on the leaderboard. You are removed from the public board within a minute, and your own history and statistics are unaffected.

Questions

How is the ranking calculated?

By effective focus minutes: every completed work session counts toward your total, up to 60 minutes per session. If two people tie, whoever completed more sessions ranks higher, and if that also ties, whoever got there first. Skipped sessions never count.

Why is one session capped at 60 minutes?

So the board rewards showing up repeatedly rather than one very long block. If you run 90- or 120-minute deep-work sessions, they still count, just capped at 60 each. There is also a 12-hour daily ceiling, which no honest day of focusing gets near.

How do I get on the leaderboard?

Sign in and complete one focus session. That is the whole requirement. You appear under a randomly generated nickname such as 'Quiet Otter'.

Is my real name or email shown?

No. Your email address and Google account ID are never published, and neither are your task names. You are shown as a generated nickname unless you explicitly choose to display the name you set in Preferences.

How do I remove myself from the leaderboard?

Open Preferences, go to Account, and turn off 'Show me on the leaderboard'. You disappear from the public board within a minute.

When do the daily, weekly and monthly boards reset?

Days reset at midnight UTC, weeks on Monday at midnight UTC, and months on the 1st. Everyone shares the same reset time so the board shows the same winner to everyone, wherever they are.