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[paddy0ne]

Need more creative badges and trophies rather than just the lifetime records... that could be more motivating.

Here are a few ideas:
- Badge for reaching 10000 steps for 7 days in a row, 15 days in a row, 50 days in a row...
- Badges based on active minutes/calories/kilometers
- How about some more crazy/funny badges like "night owl" for someone who regularly achieves a lot of steps at night, "out of bed" (same principle but for early morning), etc.
- Badges that reflect poor activity; for instance a badge if you don't reach 10000 steps/day once in 7 days, ...

I think that these are all ideas that could really enrich the experience of fitbit users by increasing motivation and I believe they are all relatively simple to implement in the Fitbit system!!

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[BAlien]

Hi - I agree with these guys - I do a lot of climbing and have been maxed out at 35,000 for some time now - maybe a moon ? comet ? mars.... sun ?

[Darladou]

Need a badge for 85,000 steps and 95,000 steps

[Delbert]

Now the Fitbit community has grown and a lot of users of the surge use it for cycling is it possible to create challenges and rewards for bike related exercise like you do for steps. Example, distance challenge/awards, speed & time related challenge/awards.
Also is it possible to stop the surge from counting steps when bike mode is used as steps have no relevance to cycling and surely the above suggestions would be more rewarding and motivating for us cyclists.

[MikeS1971]

Something that would be nice would be badges for personal goals. Weather its for steps, miles, floors or weight. The badge could have a similar design to current ones, but with a star in the middle. I'm sure there are countless ways users could use this. Everyone has their own personal goals they'd like to reach. For me, I'd use it to track the life of my shoes. I had suggested in a past feature request a "gear" tracker, it got plenty of thumbs up and support, buy sadly its has never been implemented. With this new idea, I can set a personal goal to 400 miles, when I reach it, I get a 400 mile badge, then I know I should start looking into buying new shoes. 

[Mslady]

If possible could there be more badges that can be warmed fkr diffrent type of exercisestuff besides your floors and steps? I live the challenges that we have but can there be more people added to the challenges instead of just ten people?

[stephen01]

Great idea. I am on 40,000 plus 'lifetime floors', and last one i received was 35,000. 

Seems very simple to implement.

Go on Fitbit...act with haste on this please.  

does seem strange that badge run currently ends at 35,000.......

[zacchaeusn7]

Hey FitBit Community~

It takes a village, right? Well on that same note I think it would be awesome if we all made Fit-a-Bit brighter! Here's my idea:

Award users badges, points, or rewards when they upload new food products via barcodes to the FitBit database. Think of Gowalla (old location social networking app) or Foursquare's Superusers, or Google Maps' Google Local Guides (Levels 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). It would create more incentive to grow the database and that is so important for customer engagement.

It would also be great because the experience of manually scanning a food item is tedious and having a larger database would make being healthier, easier.

Thanks for reading my idea! Feel free to contact me.

Respectfully,
Zacchaeus

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[Hwy12]

I agree with many on more frequent lifetime miles.  If it takes a year to get to the next one, there seems to be no excitement to get there.  The 50 or 100 mile immediate incentives would work for me, just so it shows we are still making progress.  I do not agree to the frown badges for not making a goal.  The whole purpose is to feel good about it and WANT to do better.  No one needs reminded that they didn't make it.  Everyone goes on a trip, is sick, forgets to put it on, or loses their fitbit.  Penalizing for not making it seems to be counter productive to the whole concept. But please make more lifetime badges, even if it is a Sahara Desert plus a Yellowstone Park to your next badge.  Thanks

[LVinLA]

Count me in as another "Satellite" lifetime floors achiever who would love to have some new lifetime floor badges to extend the range beyond 35,000.  I'm an avid hiker, and made the 7,000 floors from "Astronaut" to "Satellite" is just 40 days.  

I'm also an engineer, recently retired from CalTech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where I worked for 32 years designing and building airborne & spaceborne science instruments, mostly under NASA sponsorship. (Yep, got my Fitbit when I retired last fall, so, finally, plenty of time to spend hiking in the peacefulness of the mountains.)

I have some specific space-related ideas for new loftier lifetime climb badges that I hope the developers at Fitbit will consider:

* 52,493 floors (160 km) is the bottom end of the range of "Low Earth Orbit" (LEO), where most Earth-observing scientific satellites fly, and would make a challenging next step beyond 35,000.

* 76,476 floors (233.1 km) is an altitude that is relevant to hikers, and anyone who clicks on the little mountain to turn on the topography on the Fitbit map page. The Digital Elevation Model (database used to generate the topo map) for Earth was created in an 11-day Space Shuttle mission that flew in Feb 2000.  This "Shuttle Radar Topography Mission" (SRTM) orbited at this altitude.

* 121,391 floors (370 km) is the altitude where the International Space Station (ISS) flies.

I know these three will keep me busy for about a year.

Another relevant altitude would be Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, but at over 6 million floors (20,230 km), it would take 125 years to get there at a rate of 1,000 floors per week!

[MrFurious]

I came to the forums hoping to either find that this already existed somewhere, or was in development, but your post seems to be the most relevant one.

I want this feature as well - while your reasons for it are logical and practical, mine are about motivation.  I want to set a series of goals that correspond to the distances walked in Lord Of The Rings - here.  But, that would be dozens (hundreds?) of badges.

[MikeS1971]

The Lord of the Rings idea sounds fun. That's the great thing about this idea. The types of goals people could set for badges would be endless.

[AlMerrickrider]

I think it would be great if there were calling cards in addition to badges. For example, if someone were to reach 1M lifetimes steps they would be rewarded with a calling card everyone would recognize. People would see that calling card and know what they accomplished. There could be a bronze ring around their profile picture. And then a silver and gold for 2M and 3M steps reached. Or perhaps some kind of clip art that identifies some achievement each person has accomplished no matter how large or small it was. And we would be able to decide what calling card to use. The more rewards there are to be earned the better. Love my fitbit Surge by the way!! 

[Darladou]

Very cool idea

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[Darladou]

Cool idea! I agree

[Davefh]

Currently max daily total for badges is 100,000 steps and 700 floors.  I'm a recent member but have already achieved 100,000+ steps 3 times.  It would be nice to have an incentive to go further.  Same for floors.

[SunsetRunner]

100,000 steps ?

really ?

my better number is 45,000 steps, for 41.50 km

did you walk around 100 km a day ?

[Davefh]

I don't do km. Were 50ml plus a day.

[huskythai]

I would love to see badges for lifetime and daily increase. Soon I will have received all badges that fitbit provides. I know lots of people that have blown the currant badges out of the water. I have walked more then 100K steps and would love new badges. 

[kaisle]

Hi!

I suggested this via email and they told me to post it here. I recently hit my 10,000 step goal 57 days in a row and I thought that it would have been cool to have gotten a "50 day streak" badge.

Other badge ideas:
Perfect month - hit your step goal every day in a month
Perfect week - hit your step goal every day in a week
Consistency - average 10,000 steps (or your goal) for a month
50 day streak
100 day streak
and so on.

I only have the Fitbit Zip so I only suggested step related goals, but these could easily apply to stairs, etc. too.

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[Kellykk]

More friend challenges would be fun. Can we get a sleep challenge?!

[SunsetRunner]

Yes please

[walksalot]

Fitbit has always said "every step counts". Why then do they stop giving mile badges? And why aren't they giving lifetime step badges? Some people need to take a lot more steps to get in their miles and this accomplishment should be recognized.

[Colinm39]

Here is a list of badges and many of us have been pushing for years...

See this link... But alas no Lifetime steps.. Which is odd when they have Lifetime miles which can be manipulated by stride length.

Steps are real

[rem810926]

Maybe someone has already suggested that idea. Hopefully Fitbit will get
their act together and implement it soon.

[Shamim]

We have steps and floor based badges, but it would be useful and fun to have calorie based badges. It also makes sense to have them because it is possible to burn calorie with certain exercises without gaining steps or floors, such as cycling.

I also have ideas about some of those badge names, for example,

Dynamite: Energy (Calorie) released by a dynamite explosion.

Since we are biologically limited to how much we can burn a day, it would be appropriate to have these badges on cumulative basis only.

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