What should I know about Fitbit challenges?

Choose from five races:

• Daily Showdown—Who can get the most steps today?
• Weekend Warrior—Who can get the most steps over the weekend?
• Workweek Hustle—Who can get the most steps Monday through Friday?
• Goal Day—How many participants can reach their daily step goal?
• Family Faceoff—Which member of your Fitbit family account can get the most steps Monday through Friday?
• Adventures—Choose between non-competitive solo journeys or challenge friends to the finish line across real life locations.

1. In the Fitbit app, tap the Discover tab Challenges & Adventures.
2. Swipe to see the challenge types, and tap to choose a challenge.
3. Find the option to invite other players and choose among your Fitbit friends, Fitbit family account members, and contacts. You can see your phone contacts and any Facebook friends who are Fitbit users but not yet your Fitbit friends. Any person from these lists that you invite to the challenge will also be added as a Fitbit friend.
4. If you'd prefer to compete against yourself, skip the step for adding friends, or start a solo adventure instead of a non-competitive journey.

Up to 30 people can join an adventure race. For other challenges, a maximum of 11 people can participate depending on the challenge type.

Challenge participants can see each other's profile image, posted messages, total steps in the challenge, personal stats, and achievements.

Invitees have 24 hours to accept an invitation. If people join after the challenge starts, their step data for the entire length of the challenge will count towards the challenge.

After a challenge is begins, you can still invite other Fitbit friends. Open the challenge and find the option to invite other people.

People who don't have a Fitbit device can still participate in a challenge using MobileTrack. For more information, see How do I use Fitbit MobileTrack?

Earn trophies by coming in first place in a challenge or completing your goal. You can also earn trophies for achieving a personal best in a challenge or for achieving your step goal for each day of the challenge.

After a challenge is over and all participants have synced their data, you'll see the challenge results. You can share your trophy or badge with friends and family. For instructions, see What should I know about my Fitbit badges?

At this time, only steps from your Fitbit device or MobileTrack count towards a challenge. That means manually logged activities and activities tracked through third-party apps aren't included in your challenge total.

If you track a GPS activity using your phone and the Fitbit app (called a MobileRun) during a challenge, be sure to bring your Fitbit device along; as long as you have your device with you, those steps will count towards your challenge totals.

If your Fitbit device offers GPS, steps from GPS activities and non-GPS activities are both counted towards a challenge because you're wearing your device.

Fitbit keeps you updated on the challenge by sending push notifications or email.

1. Log in to your fitbit.com dashboard and click the gear icon  Settings Notifications.
2. Find Challenges, and adjust your notification preferences.
3. Click Save.

1. Tap the Today tab Edit.
2. Tap the X icon on the challenge you want to quit Yes or OK Done.

Note that at this time, you can only quit an active challenge. Finished challenges will remain visible for two days.

The challenge begins and ends in the challenge owner's time zone, so if you're in a different time zone than the challenge owner, you may notice that your challenge leaderboard stats do not always match your dashboard stats.