How Scoring Works
Denkard Games is a study competition for Anki. The Denkard Games add-on sends the times of your Anki reviews to Denkard, and they earn points on two leaderboards: team events and the Daily Leaderboard. Here's exactly how they're counted, and what makes the biggest difference.
What matters most
Open Anki every day
Your streak multiplies your whole day's points, from ×1.25 at 7 days in a row up to ×2. Missing a single day resets it, so a short session beats skipping.
Your first 100 reviews count most
Each day, reviews 1 to 100 are worth 3 points each. After that they're worth less in steps, but every review still earns at least 1 point.
Longer sessions pay off
Every active minute also earns time points, climbing from 1 to 10 a minute the longer you keep reviewing without a break. Your first 10 active minutes of the day earn double.
Two leaderboards
Events are team competitions: only reviews during the event count, and everyone's event streak starts at zero. The Daily Leaderboard runs every day and rewards your study streak from your whole Anki history.
Events vs. the Daily Leaderboard
Both use the same review and time points (below). What differs is which reviews count, which streak multiplies them, and how long the scores last.
| trophyEvents | todayDaily Leaderboard | |
|---|---|---|
| Who | Teams (everyone's on one) | Every player, individually |
| When | Between the event's start and end dates | Every day, resetting at 4am Eastern |
| Reviews that count | Only ones made during the event | All of today's reviews |
| Streak used | Event streak, which starts at zero on the event's first day, so nobody gets a head start | Study streak, counted from your whole Anki history, so long-time streaks pay off here |
| Score | Adds up over the whole event | Today only; everyone starts at 0 each morning |
| Badges | Event badges from your event points, plus exclusive badges for specific events | Daily Leaderboard badges |
Your study streak uses the same 4am-Eastern days as everything else, so it can differ slightly from the streak Anki itself shows if your Anki day starts at a different time or you're in another time zone.
How your points add up
Each day you earn two kinds of points from Anki: review points for every card you review, and time points for every minute you spend reviewing. They're added together, multiplied by your streak, and rounded to a whole number. Both reset every day.
1. Review points
Every review is worth at least 1 point, with a bonus based on how many reviews you've already done today. Each review gets the bonus for its own position: review #105 is worth 2 even though your first 100 were worth 3.
| Review # today | Bonus | Worth |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 100 | +200% | 3 each |
| 101 to 500 | +100% | 2 each |
| 501 to 1,000 | +50% | 1.5 each |
| 1,001+ | +0% | 1 each |
2. Time points
An active minute is any clock minute in which you did at least one review. Each active minute earns time points, and the longer you keep going without a break, the more each minute is worth (see the table below). One slow card is fine: the run keeps going through one empty minute, but a longer break starts it over at 1.
| Active minute today | Time points |
|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | ×2 |
| 11 to 30 | ×1.5 |
| 31+ | ×1 |
Time points per minute
What each minute of an unbroken run earns, before the multiplier above. Reviewing faster never costs you time points: a minute is worth the same whether you do 1 review in it or 10.
| Minute in a row | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time points | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
Streak multiplier
A streak is how many days in a row you've done at least one review. It multiplies your whole day's points once, at the end of the day, and today counts: if yesterday was day 6, your first review today makes it day 7 and today's points get the higher multiplier. Both leaderboards use the same tiers, each with its own streak:
- Event streak (events): starts from zero on an event's first day, even if you studied the day before.
- Study streak (Daily Leaderboard): counts back through your whole Anki history, so the longest tiers are within reach.
- Miss a day and a streak goes back to zero.
- Days run from 4am to 4am Eastern time, so a late-night session after midnight still counts toward the day before.
| Streak | Multiplier |
|---|---|
| 1 to 6 days | ×1 |
| 7 to 29 days | ×1.25 |
| 30 to 179 days | ×1.5 |
| 180 to 364 days | ×1.75 |
| 365+ days | ×2 |
A worked example
Say it's day 8 of your streak and you do 150 Anki reviews at about 6 a minute without a break, so they land in 25 active minutes in a row:
| Worth | Points | |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews 1 to 100 | 3 each | 300 |
| Reviews 101 to 150 | 2 each | 100 |
| Active minutes 1 to 1055 time points from the ramp | ×2 | 110 |
| Active minutes 11 to 25150 time points from the ramp | ×1.5 | 225 |
| Day total before streak | 400 + 335 | 735 |
| Streak: day 8 in a row | ×1.25 | |
| Final points for the day | Rounded | 919 |
When reviews count
- Events: only reviews made while an event is running count, never ones from before it was announced.
- Daily Leaderboard: every review counts toward that day's score, event or not. When you first connect the add-on, it tells Denkard which days you've studied in the past (not your individual reviews) so your study streak is right from day one.
- Everyone's on a team. Your team's score is the total of its members' points during the event.
- Reviews from any device count once they reach the computer running the Denkard Games add-on (for example, phone reviews after an AnkiWeb sync). Nothing is counted twice.
- Only real reviews count. Rescheduling or resetting cards in the browser doesn't earn anything.
Badges
Badges are permanent. There are three kinds: event badges from your points across every event, exclusives you can only earn during one particular event, and Daily Leaderboard badges. The organizers may also hand out special badges now and then.
Event badges
From your event points, across every event.
Warm Up
Earn 100 event points
Thousand Club
Earn 1,000 event points
Scholar
Earn 2,500 event points
High Scorer
Earn 5,000 event points
Five Figures
Earn 10,000 event points
Legend
Earn 25,000 event points
shieldFair play
Points are calculated by the Denkard server, never by the add-on, and review patterns that look automated or implausible are flagged for the organizers. They may warn, mute or ban players. A mute or ban can also cancel points earned while cheating. Study honestly, and the scoring will reward you for it.