Your first 67 Speed score will be somewhere between 30 and 50. Ours were. We’ve watched hundreds of first-time players and the distribution is brutal: a few outliers land at 60+, but most people hit the low 40s and assume that’s their ceiling.
It’s not. After five or six deliberate attempts, the same player usually clears 60. Ten attempts and the right technique, 70. Here’s what to actually do between attempts to move the number.
Warm up first — always
Two ten-second bursts, two minutes before your real attempt, improves scores by about 10–15% in our internal testing. Your muscles have an activation tax on the first movement; the warmup pays it so your real round starts cold-free.
Don’t warm up by playing real rounds — you’ll just post low scores that bury your real attempt on the leaderboard. Mute the tab, pump in place for ten seconds, stop, breathe, and then start the actual game.
Pump from the shoulder, not the elbow
Short elbow pumps feel fast but don’t cover enough vertical distance — many of them fall below the 8% scoring threshold and get ignored by the game. Long shoulder pumps always score, and shoulders are surprisingly endurance-heavy. You can hold shoulder tempo for 20 seconds. You’ll gas elbows at 12.
Cue for yourself: elbows stay near your ribs, the motion is hand starting below your belt line and ending above your chin. Every pump travels a foot or more of vertical space.
Find your 95% and hold it
The most common failure pattern we see is the explosion: players start at 110% for five seconds, gas out, and slow to 60% for the remaining fifteen. Final score: 52. A steady 95% for the full round scores better almost every time.
On iOS, the haptic feedback gives you a tempo anchor — once you find a rhythm that taps nicely through the round, lock to it. On the web, use the on-screen counter: if it stops climbing for half a second, you’ve dropped below 8% range. Extend more.
Keep your shoulders down
Under physical effort, most people tense up and pull their shoulders toward their ears. That steals range of motion and adds co-contraction — muscles fighting each other. Your pumps slow down and it feels like you’re working harder for less.
Before the countdown, take one breath and deliberately drop your shoulders away from your ears. You’ll feel two extra inches of vertical range. Those inches are points.
Watch the screen, not your hands
Your hands don’t need supervision — your muscle memory has them. Your eyes need to be on the counter because the visual feedback is what tells your brain “faster” or “bigger range. ”
If you watch your hands, you lose the counter, and without the counter you don’t know whether your tempo is actually producing points or just burning energy. Eyes on the number, the whole time.
Camera placement matters
Put your phone or laptop so the camera is level with your chest and three to four feet away. Too close and your pumps go off-frame at the top. Too far and the model has trouble picking up the wrist against the background.
A bright, uncluttered background helps. The pose model was trained on indoor scenes; it loves a plain wall. It hates motion behind you and it especially hates other people walking around.
When to stop for the day
Forearm burn stacks fast. If your score drops three rounds in a row, it’s not a technique problem — you’re fatigued. Come back tomorrow. Our best scores come at the start of a session, not the end.
Once you consistently clear 70, the path from 70 to 100 is mostly stamina. 100+ requires dedicated conditioning of the shoulder stabilizers. At that point you’re training for a sport, not chasing a meme score. Good luck.