Global Leaderboard
Top players from around the world
Top Solvers
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About the Leaderboard
Rankings are based on completion time. Complete puzzles in Daily Challenge or regular play mode to see your ranking!
What Is a Sudoku Leaderboard?
A Sudoku leaderboard is a competitive ranking system that tracks and displays the best solving performances from players worldwide. It creates a competitive environment where players can compare their solving times, accuracy, and skill levels across different difficulty levels. The leaderboard transforms individual puzzle solving into a global competition, motivating players to improve their skills and achieve faster completion times.
Our leaderboard tracks performances from both daily challenges and regular play sessions, providing comprehensive rankings that reflect the diverse solving approaches and skill levels of our global community. Players can filter rankings by time period (daily, weekly, monthly, all-time) and difficulty level to see how they compare in specific categories.
The leaderboard serves multiple purposes: it provides motivation through competition, helps players gauge their progress relative to others, creates a sense of community among Sudoku enthusiasts, and demonstrates the active, competitive nature of our Sudoku platform. It's not just a ranking system—it's a dynamic showcase of the global Sudoku solving community.
How Rankings Are Calculated
Rankings on our Sudoku leaderboard are calculated based on several key factors that ensure fair and accurate competition:
Completion Time (Primary Factor)
The primary ranking factor is completion time—how quickly you solve the puzzle. Faster completion times rank higher. Times are measured from when you start the puzzle until you complete it correctly.
Mistakes (Secondary Factor)
When completion times are similar, rankings consider the number of mistakes made. Fewer mistakes result in better rankings. This encourages accuracy alongside speed.
Difficulty Level (Context)
Rankings are separated by difficulty level, ensuring fair competition. Solving an Extreme puzzle in 20 minutes ranks differently than solving an Easy puzzle in 2 minutes. Each difficulty level has its own leaderboard.
Time Period Filters
Rankings can be filtered by time period: daily (today's performances), weekly (this week), monthly (this month), or all-time (all performances). This allows players to see both recent achievements and historical records.
The ranking system ensures that every player has opportunities to compete and improve, regardless of their current skill level. By separating rankings by difficulty and time period, we create multiple competitive categories where players can excel and track their progress.
Why Daily Challenges Improve Ranking
Participating in daily Sudoku challenges is one of the most effective ways to improve your leaderboard ranking. Here's why daily challenges provide unique advantages for competitive players:
Consistent Practice
Daily challenges provide consistent practice opportunities that build solving speed and accuracy over time. Regular practice improves pattern recognition, technique application, and overall solving efficiency—all factors that directly impact leaderboard rankings.
Fair Competition
Daily challenges use deterministic puzzle generation, meaning everyone solves the same puzzle on the same day. This creates fair competition where rankings reflect true solving ability rather than puzzle difficulty variations.
Multiple Difficulty Levels
Each daily challenge offers six difficulty levels, allowing you to compete in multiple categories simultaneously. This increases your chances of achieving top rankings across different skill categories.
Progress Tracking
Daily challenges help you track improvement over time. As you consistently solve daily puzzles, you'll notice faster completion times and better accuracy, which directly translate to improved leaderboard positions.
Community Engagement
Daily challenges create shared solving experiences with the global community. Competing on the same puzzles as thousands of other players adds motivation and makes leaderboard achievements more meaningful.
The combination of consistent practice, fair competition, and multiple competitive categories makes daily challenges the ideal path to leaderboard success. Players who participate regularly in daily challenges typically see steady improvement in their rankings over time.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get on the leaderboard?
Simply complete any Sudoku puzzle on our platform—either through the Daily Challenge or regular play mode. Your completion time and accuracy will automatically be recorded and added to the leaderboard rankings.
What determines my ranking position?
Rankings are primarily based on completion time (faster times rank higher). When times are similar, the number of mistakes is considered (fewer mistakes rank higher). Rankings are separated by difficulty level to ensure fair competition across all skill levels.
Can I improve my ranking by solving easier puzzles?
Rankings are separated by difficulty level, so solving easier puzzles won't directly improve your ranking in harder difficulty categories. However, practicing with easier puzzles can improve your overall skills, which may help you achieve better times in harder puzzles. Each difficulty level has its own leaderboard, so you can compete in multiple categories.
How often are leaderboard rankings updated?
Leaderboard rankings are updated in real-time as players complete puzzles. When you finish a puzzle, your performance is immediately added to the leaderboard and rankings are recalculated. You can filter rankings by time period (daily, weekly, monthly, all-time) to see different competitive categories.
Why should I participate in daily challenges for better rankings?
Daily challenges provide fair competition (everyone solves the same puzzle), consistent practice opportunities, and multiple difficulty levels to compete in. Regular participation in daily challenges builds solving speed and accuracy, which directly improves your leaderboard rankings. Additionally, daily challenges create shared experiences with the global community, making achievements more meaningful.