Doom Score is a 300-900 adaptive rating designed around the same basic principle as competitive rating systems like chess Elo:
You don't simply collect points forever. Your score continuously adjusts based on your recent behavior and current rating.
⚙️ How the Rating Works
Your Doom Score is calculated from four core inputs:
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Screen Time How much time you spend on your device.
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Focus Sessions Completed periods of intentional, focused work.
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Distraction Time Time spent on your Hitlist: Shorts, Reels, endless feeds, and other distractions.
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Intentionality Whether you consciously identify why you're opening a distracting app.
Additional behavioral signals, including late-night usage and your Clean Browsing Ratio, also influence your rating.
📈 Why You Don't Just Keep Gaining Points
Doom Score uses diminishing returns.
At a lower rating, positive behavior can produce relatively large gains. As your rating gets higher, the same behavior produces a progressively smaller increase.
For example:
| Current Score | Completing a Focus Session |
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| 350 | Large improvement |
| 500 | Moderate improvement |
| 650 | Smaller improvement |
| 750 | Small improvement |
| 850 | Very difficult to climb |
This prevents someone from reaching 900 simply by farming Focus Sessions.
🧮 The Core Model
Conceptually, each behavioral event produces a rating adjustment:
New Doom Score = Current Score + Behavioral Adjustment × Difficulty Factor
The Difficulty Factor decreases as your rating increases.
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Low Score → Easier to recover
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Mid Score → Progress requires consistency
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High Score → Every improvement is harder-earned
Negative behavior can also reduce your rating, meaning a high score isn't something you can permanently bank and forget about.
What Moves Your Rating?
🏆 The 900 Club
750+ isn't simply a reward for accumulating enough points.
It's a signal that you've maintained consistently strong attention habits at a rating where further improvement becomes increasingly difficult.
900 = theoretical ceiling. Getting there should be rare.