Glossary · Scoring method
Ring Close Count
Definition
A MoveTogether competition scoring method that awards a fixed number of points each time a participant closes an Activity Ring (Move, Exercise, or Steps). Three rings closed in a day = three ring closes. Simple, binary, derived from Apple's ring model.
How MoveTogether uses it.
Ring Close Count is one of seven MoveTogether scoring methods. It's the most accessible, anyone who can read Apple's rings can read the leaderboard. It rewards consistency over volume: closing your rings every day at modest goals beats closing them once at heroic goals.
Ring Close Count works best when everyone in the competition has roughly comparable daily goals. For mixed-fitness-level groups, Percentage of Goals tends to be fairer.
The scoring is deliberately coarse: a ring either closed or it did not, and closing it by one calorie counts the same as doubling it. That is the point. It keeps the leaderboard readable at a glance and it rewards turning up daily rather than one heroic Saturday. It also means the method is only as fair as the goals behind it, and those goals are personal and adjustable. Percentage of Goals inherits the same dependency, since it also scores against your own targets. If a group would rather leave goals out of it entirely, Step Count, Calorie Burn and Raw Numbers score the absolute figures instead.
See ring close count in action.
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