Competition
The three boards you can appear on, how the monthly season resets, what finishing in the top 10 pays, and why your rank sometimes lags behind.
There isn't one leaderboard, there are three, and they rank completely different things, which is good news if you've only been here a week.
Three tabs: Seasons, Leaderboard and Gear.
Only the points you've earned this calendar month. A newcomer can win this
The all-time board: total points and total sessions, since the day you joined
Nothing to do with practice. Ranks players by the strength of the gear they've equipped in the Arsenal
A season is one calendar month. Seasonal points are kept in their own pile, separate from your all-time total, so on the 1st everybody starts from zero again. Nothing carries over, and nothing you've earned is lost from your all-time score.
A season counts your practice time, healthy habits, daily quests and challenge recordings. It leaves out the one-off rewards — learning a song and clearing a Scale Map box — because those can only be collected once each, and a month should rank what you practised that month.
Finish in the top 10 of a season and you get a one-off Fame payout when it ends: 2000 / 1200 / 800 / 500 / 350 Fame for 1st through 5th, then 250 / 220 / 200 / 175 / 150 down to 10th.
Next to each board you'll see where you stand. It's simply the number of players with a higher score than you, plus one.
The boards and your position are refreshed periodically rather than the instant you save a session, so a big evening of practice can take a while to show up. Your points are already counted; only the display is behind.
I practised a lot and my rank didn't move
Give it a little time. Boards refresh on a schedule; nothing is lost
Can I be top of one board and nowhere on another
Absolutely. The gear board rewards Fame spent in the Arsenal, the season board rewards this month's practice, and the all-time board rewards years of it
Do season rewards arrive automatically
The Fame is paid out when the season closes