Challenges not Based on Steps, eg. Sports, Stairs, Active Mins

[Lianne393]

It would be nice to have different types of challenges that aren't solely based on getting our steps in. 

For instance, the number of active minutes in a day, loss challenge, calories, water consumption. Some activities don't count steps such as cycling, skiing or skateboard.  I would like to be able to compete against my friends while doing other activities.  

Moderator edit: Word choice

[Latauti]

I really hope fitbit developers see all this feedback & do something soon!

[KellyM58]

It would be cool if we could challenge others for the mos active minutes per week or day instead of total steps all the tine

[Diodes123]

I think that's a great idea! But I would also like stuff like floor challenges and distance challenges

[hottpepper]

Active minutes, distance, calorie burn all options for new challenges - this is an APP upgrade, not a device upgrade and should be rather easy to accommodate.

[Heidididid]

This idea is backed by so many users is the fitbit team hearing this? I love the fitbit charge 2 i recently bought but i feel the challenges have so much more potential im a little dissapointed even though i know i set my personal challanges i love the competing element.

[EricJRW]

Great idea and this is no April Fools!

[hjm76]

I like this idea, although it would be useless if it's the same as the new format analysis for sleep....

Please bring back the old version so we can see % analysis and be able to hover over the times of asleep / restless / awake as I like to read these statistics. It is useless now, and doesn't even look pretty. Then having a sleep challenge would be great!

I will stop wearing mine at night if it stays like this, it will only be used for exercise / steps, and I will look at getting something different that isn't FitBit.

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[rrtrrrrrr]

As a college student, I am surrounded by people who are sleep deprived. 

I think adding a sleep competition feature would be a great way to incentivize users to get the necessary amount of sleep and to encourage them to live a healthy lifestyle.

[princessmom64]

I would also like to see a full week challenge

Everyone's work week is not Monday thru Friday and so everyone's weekend is not Saturday and Sunday.

Thanks! ♥

[Bailey87]

Are any of these ideas being acted upon?  I think a lot of people want this to happen.  Chasing steps seems to be the only way to compete with friends and discourages fitbit users to other types of exercise.

[marcin_kempka]

Any updates on this guys?

I see only step challenges and since I do a lot of kickboxing I would prefer something with calories. Endomondo has some cool challenges but it does not read Fitbit heart rate data so I cancelled my premium subscription there.

Hope Fitbit will come up with something.

[yuukirey]

I've gotten used to being destroyed in weekly challenges by people who just walk a lot. That may be shopping, partying or just work (some of the doctors log crazy steps due to all the walking in the hospital). My 3/week bouldering gym and 2/week regular gym are as good as worthless when it comes to competing against friends in FitBit.

[SunsetRunner]

Yes please add a stair challenge I would love it!

[Sarcastagirly]

My mother has a much lower goal than me normally but is motivated by my steps, it would be nice to have a Goal Challenge rather than step.

I currently have a broken ankle and my daily goal has dropped from 15k to 3k and I also would like to feel motivated with friends who are trying to reach higher step goals.

This seems like a no brainer, please add this option. 

[Jstake]

Yes! Sleep challenges, please!

[DFragmentor]

has a Sleep Challenge been added yet?

[ChrisBoBMMS]

+1 for different types of challenges.  I have friends that are much more active or that can devote more time to walking/running.  Personally, I've found the activity hours very helpful and would like to challenge others.

I think it would also be helpful to have challenges based on percentage of goals.  I am older and more out of shape than a lot of my fiends so reaching their step goals is near impossible for me.

[Resing]

Wow! Suggested in 2014 with almost 300 votes. Hope this gets added soon. 

[Gusmouse]

I came here to post this suggestion as well. I'm hoping to see it soon. 

[ViLLa]

I would love to have a sleep challenge! It's as important as step challenge! If you're working out you DO have to have a good sleep to recover 😃👍🏽

[Sodium]

2 1/2 years after it was suggested there's still nothing. Seems like it should be really easy to create too.

I guess the devs were too busy creating those two new clock faces for the blaze... 😕

[AtticusK]

I'm wearing my strategist hat here, I suspect they can do it easily but
they probably think it isn't congruent with their product positioning as a
fitness brand. Its sad because countless studies have shown that sleep is
the best thing you can invest in to acquire health and fitness gains. Also,
if they're pursuing this line of thinking they aren't strongly
differentiated from the other fitness options out their, Garmin has a more
detailed heart/mileage app. The Fitbit app already has the metric for
measuring sleep, it should be easy peasy to create the sleep challenge and
get more users to migrate to their brand, not everyone wants to measure
fitness in steps. Those in the intermediate/advanced level of fitness know
that counting steps isn't the most efficient way to better fitness and
health, sleep and resting heart rate is the way to go. (diet is the
priority but that doesn't apply here)

[Steppin_UP]

A sleep quality challenge would be fantastic. Having sleep quality techniques would be beneficial to overall health quality. We have step ones so why not another aspect for overall fitness.

[tcornsimp]

Agreed!!!!



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[burnt-barn-moon]

This has a lot of votes. Has it been reviewed recently for consideration? I'd love to have this feature as a lot of my activity is not step based. Thanks!