Each day, any member of the site can take part once in the Daily Challenge.
They must complete one training session in each of the six categories (they just need to finish all of them during the day — it’s not mandatory to do them all at once).
What makes it special: all athletes receive the same set of data — as if it were a giant match where everyone competes against each other (but not at the same time!).
In other words: the same cards, same numbers, same international names, and the same images. For national names and words, the same set of translations is provided to all players using the same language.
Each event earns points (the scoring system still needs to be defined to take both speed and accuracy into account), and a global leaderboard is published every day showing everyone’s scores.
Three key benefits in my opinion:
New players can track their progress by seeing their ranking improve week after week.
It encourages players to train in all categories whenever they join the Daily Challenge — and we know that success comes mainly from consistent practice!
It keeps the site active during quiet moments, when a player might otherwise be waiting alone for a match.
I’d love to hear what you think of this idea!
Nathan
I’d love this idea! part of what i liked about USA championship qualifying on ML was that everyone played the same sets. it would be super fun to have a topic here where we could talk the next day about encoding techniques for specific names/faces or words or something like that.
In the absence of this being officially supported I’d still enjoy a topic where maybe we all play one set of 6 a day and post our scores whatever they are. It would be an honor system situation with no rewards (and i’m sure some folks would still cheat for the recognition, but who cares.)
First of all, thanks for implementing this! I wanted to report a potential small bug: I tried cards, got distracted during memorization and quit the event. After doing that, the system allowed me to retry it (with the same card set). I think this should not be possible, otherwise players can read the set a first time, exit the game, and re-try it again (with the added value of a “pre-read” set). If you exit the event, I think this should count as 0.
It’s a very creative idea, whoever is behind it, kudos to them. @Simon, is there a way to sort the leaderboard by a specific game type as well, just like there is overall score sorting in the daily challenge?
Very brilliant idea, Nathan. It encourages people to at least give one shot at each event, even when we don’t find any competitors.
This one would be nice and it would be really nice if we could see the best of the week / month / Year. Because here you do your daily challenge and it is like your scores disappears ( that’s not the case but no one is watching the previous days / weeks ) that’s just an idea that could make this nice daily challenge ever better
