Keep your challenge fair, fun, and competitive for everyone
The Daily Activity Cap is an optional setting you can add to any challenge mode in SuperDash. It’s designed to prevent outliers (like your marathoners or ultra-hikers) from unintentionally overwhelming the leaderboard — while still giving them full credit for their activity in their personal profile.
If your group has a wide range of fitness levels, using a daily cap is one of the best ways to keep things balanced.
💡 What is the Daily Activity Cap?
The Daily Activity Cap limits the maximum amount of activity that can count toward your challenge score in a single day.
Participants can still sync their full activity to the Stridekick app — nothing is hidden or removed.
But for the challenge itself, only the activity up to the cap will be counted.
Think of it as a friendly fairness filter.
🏃 Example
If you set a cap of 75 active minutes/day:
Someone logs 120 minutes of activity
Their profile shows the full 120 minutes
Their challenge score only counts 75 minutes toward the leaderboard
This keeps competition fun and fair — especially in step-heavy or highly competitive groups.
🧠 Why use a Daily Activity Cap?
Keeps the leaderboard competitive
Prevents a few high-volume users from unintentionally dominating.
Encourages healthy pacing
People stay motivated without feeling like they have to “catch up” to extreme numbers.
Levels the playing field
Great for groups with mixed ability levels or varying activity styles.
Works across all major modes
Leaderboard, Target, Streak, Stick To It, Virtual Race, Team modes, Group modes — anywhere scoring is based on totals or daily performance.
🔧 Where to find it in SuperDash
You’ll see the Daily Activity Cap option appear when configuring each challenge mode. It will look like a simple on/off toggle with a field to enter your cap value (steps, minutes, or distance depending on the mode).
⚠️ Daily Activity Cap Limitations
To keep your challenge logic consistent, SuperDash enforces a few important restrictions:
1. Your daily activity cap cannot be lower than your daily goal.
This applies to:
Streak daily goals
Stick To It daily goals
Any mode where participants must hit a minimum daily target
Personalized goal ranges
Example:
If your Streak goal is 6,000 steps/day, your cap must be 6,000 or higher.
Why?
If your cap is lower than your daily goal, participants wouldn’t be able to achieve the goal — which would break scoring and streak tracking.
2. Your cap cannot be lower than what a participant must complete to reach the challenge goal.
This applies to:
Target mode total goals
Virtual Race individual distance goals
Group/Team Target goals
Example:
If your Target goal is 200,000 steps in 30 days, that averages to ~6,700/day.
Your cap must be ≥ 6,700/day, or participants physically wouldn’t be able to reach the total.
3. Caps must use the same metric as the mode
You can’t set a minute cap in a step-based mode or vice versa.
4. Caps apply moving forward (not retroactively)
If you adjust or remove your cap mid-challenge, the update applies from that day onward. Existing scores remain based on prior settings.
✏️ Can I change the Daily Activity Cap later?
Yes! You can add, edit, or remove a cap:
Before your challenge starts: full flexibility
After your challenge starts: still editable at any time, with changes applying going forward
This gives admins the freedom to adjust based on engagement, feedback, or unexpected activity spikes.
🎯 Recommended caps (if you’re unsure)
Here are some starting points:
Active minutes: 60–90 minutes/day
Steps: 20,000–30,000 steps/day
Distance: 10–15 miles/day
These keep things challenging but fair for most groups.