Earning badges and climbing the Leaderboard

RidePal rewards your riding with badges (one-time achievements), rank / level (ongoing points from rides and reviews), and a friend leaderboard so you can compare stats with people you follow. The same ideas apply on iOS and Android; distances and elevation follow your unit settings in the app.

Where to find everything

  • Badges: Open your Profile, then open Badges. You’ll see every badge, which ones you’ve earned, and progress bars for progressive badges (distance, elevation, ride count, consistency streaks, and trail contributions).
  • Leaderboard: From Profile, open Leaderboards. You’ll see a ranked list built from people you follow plus you—not a worldwide public leaderboard.
  • Rank / level: Your rank badge and level reflect total rank points on your profile and in the feed; tiers progress from entry levels up through the top tier shown in the app.

Badges: types and requirements

Badges are grouped into Distance, Elevation, Activities, Consistency, and Special. Each has a tier (Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum) for display. When you qualify, the app records the badge in your account and you may get a new badge notification.

Exact mile, foot, ride-count, and streak targets match what you see in the Badges screen—they can be tuned over time, so use the in-app progress bars as the source of truth.

Distance (total distance over your RidePal history)

Cumulative distance across all saved rides—not a single ride (unless a badge description says otherwise). Examples include your first ride, century-style lifetime mileage milestones, and larger lifetime totals.

Elevation (total elevation gain)

Total climbing across your rides. Requirements are shown in the units you use in the app.

Activities (ride count and trail contributions)

Badges for ride count milestones and for approved trail contributions that go live on the map. Contribution counts update when the app refreshes your stats.

Consistency (riding streaks)

Streaks are based on consecutive calendar days with at least one qualifying ride; thresholds are listed on each streak badge.

Special (one-off achievements)

Examples include hitting a high max speed on a ride, riding very early or late in the day (local time), or completing a long ride by elapsed time. The Badges screen states the exact rules.

Rank points and levels (separate from badges)

Badges and rank are different systems:

  • Rank points accumulate from your rides and from community actions such as trail reviews. How many points a ride earns depends on how demanding the effort was, using a model inside the app—not a single fixed number every time.
  • Levels and rank tiers unlock as your total points cross thresholds defined in the app.

So you can level up from challenging rides and participation even when you are not unlocking a new badge.

Friend leaderboard: metrics and time ranges

The leaderboard compares you and people you follow on distance, elevation, and ride count (labels follow your unit settings).

You can switch All Time vs Monthly. All time uses lifetime totals. Monthly focuses on the current period; how stale or partial data is handled is managed in the app so the list stays fair.

The list shows a capped number of top entries after sorting. If you don’t follow anyone yet, you’ll see a prompt to follow friends first. Pull to refresh (iOS) or use the refresh control (Android) to reload; results may be cached briefly for performance.

Jump airtime and other jump stats are not leaderboard metrics today—only distance, elevation, and rides.

Tips

  • Finish and save rides so stats, badges, and rank updates can run.
  • Follow your crew to populate the leaderboard; tap a row to open their profile (iOS).
  • For Trail Contributor badges, focus on submissions that pass admin review and go live.
  • If a badge looks stuck, confirm your latest rides are synced and check again after your next save.

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