# Points, streaks and your figures

> How points are earned, how a streak and its freezes work, what your level means, and what impact and contribution count.

Section: Your account · Updated: 2026-10-08
URL: https://commonyard.app/guides/points-and-streaks/

Your profile shows how many **posts**, **yards** and **points** you have, then two tiles: your streak and your level. Tap **How points, streaks and levels work** under them for the same explanation in the app.

![The page that explains your figures: points and what each act earns, level, impact and contribution](https://commonyard.app/guides/img/figures-help.webp "The app explains every figure too.")

## Points

Points are credits for taking part. They are not cash. Each act earns once:

- Post — 20
- Finish a game — 15
- Join a yard — 10
- Sign a petition — 8
- Vote — 5
- Answer a question — 5
- Reply — 4
- React — 1

This week's points climb your yard's ladder. The ladder starts over every Monday.

## Streak

Do one thing a day and your streak grows. The streak tile on your profile says how many days in a row, or what keeps it going today. Every seventh day in a row banks a **freeze**, which covers one missed day, so a single day off doesn't break your streak. On your profile, each freeze you have in hand shows as a small blue disc on the streak tile.

## Level

Your level is how the Yard sees you — never a score, never cash. Every act moves it up: a post most, a reaction least. Leaving a yard or muting takes a little back, and a confirmed report against you puts it on hold.

## Impact and contribution

- **Impact** is what other people did with the things you made: reacting, taking part, finishing, replying. Your own acts don't count, each person counts once on each thing, and a reply only counts after a day.
- **Contribution** is what you did with things other people made. Only the first few of each kind a day count.

Both start again on the 1st of every month. They are not points and buy nothing. They are no longer on your profile; **How points, streaks and levels work** still explains them.

## Hearing about your points

Points are added up and sent as one summary — at most about once a week, in the evening, Accra time — instead of a message for every vote. A big game win is told straight away.