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# Day Streaks

How day streaks work, what keeps one alive, and how to rescue a day you missed.

Maintaining a day streak is a cornerstone of learning a language. It uses the power of habit to turn an overwhelming task into a manageable daily investment of time and effort.

## How it works

* **Show up every day.** Simply opening LangX credits the day and keeps your streak alive. A day with nothing to say should not cost you two hundred of them.
* **Do something that counts, to earn the bonus.** The milestone rewards at 7, 30, 100 days and beyond are paid for a day you actually practised — send a message, write a correction, or answer a pronunciation request. Open the app in the morning and write a correction that evening, and the bonus is paid then. The streak is about showing up; the tokens are about practising.
* **One increment a day.** A streak grows by +1 per day, no matter how long you stayed. Consistency is the thing being measured, not session length.
* **Your day, not a server's day.** The streak runs on your own local day, which is why the timezone on your profile can only be changed once a week — an unrestricted timezone field would be a streak-repair button.

## Rescuing a missed day

A broken streak used to be gone for good. It is not any more: a [**streak freeze**](/litepaper/token/utility.md) costs 200 tokens, and if you miss a day, one is spent automatically and the streak survives.

You can bank two at a time. Enough for real life, not enough to make the streak meaningless.

A freeze covers the **next** day you miss — it does not reach back. For a day you have already missed, you can still [**buy it back**](/litepaper/token/utility.md) for 600 tokens: from the store in your wallet, which offers the most recent day you missed, or by tapping the empty square on your activity map. Within the last 14 days, twice a month, and never today. If the day you fill sat between two runs, they join and your streak becomes the whole length.

## Milestones

Reaching a milestone pays a bonus:

| Streak     | Bonus  |
| ---------- | ------ |
| 7 days     | 50     |
| 30 days    | 250    |
| 100 days   | 1,000  |
| 180 days   | 1,500  |
| 365 days   | 5,000  |
| 730 days   | 12,000 |
| 1,095 days | 25,000 |

Beyond the bonuses, showing up daily is also the surest way to a share of the [daily pool](/litepaper/token/distibution.md), since the pool is worked out from what you actually did that day.

## Leaderboards 🏆

The streak page carries its own table, ranked by days. Two tabs: **Now**, the run each member is holding at the moment, and **Longest**, the best they have ever held. A streak has to be alive to appear under *Now* — somebody who stopped weeks ago keeps their number in *Longest* but drops off the current table, so it is a table of people who are showing up, not of people who once did.

The token leaderboards — **weekly, monthly, yearly and all-time**, ranking tokens **earned** — live in your wallet under your balance.

Your own rank is always shown on both, even when you are outside the top of the table.

## Coming back after a break

If you had a streak in an older version of LangX, it was **frozen** rather than lost. You can spend tokens to bring it back when you return. See [LangX Token](/litepaper/token/token.md).