How does Sleep score work?

[IKICan]

Can someone please explain Sleep Score to me

Moderator edit: Updated subject for clarity.

[MamaDog48]

Wow - that’s just crazy!  The old Timex is looking better and better - LOL.    Well this is interesting. I hope Fitbit is listening - can’t post due to “errors” but nothing is highlighted. Just says to try later. So, this might never may never make it to the forum ( five tries so far). Way to go, Fitbit. You’re on my last good nerve - still LOL...

[laurala84]

Haha yeah. Hey I figured out if you click on any of the “REM, deep, light” etc buttons there it takes you to the old layout 👏👏👏👍🏽👍🏽 So it it still there.

and I ended up cancelling my fitbit premium

attached is a screenshot of the old layout. (Was a good sleep last night!)

[Diane968]

This has always been there.  It still does not provide the average weekly time 

[ZeeDub]

I don't want your arbitrary sleep score. You can't know better than I do if I slept well. I have to sleep in shifts and I get poor sleep scores because there was 4 hours between to 2 4-hour sleep cycles?! Sometimes I get the best possible sleep that way and you're grading me?!

Bring back weekly averages and at least allow to turn off scoring. I hate this feature; it actually undermines my goals!

[ZeeDub]

I don't care for fitbit scoring. Bring back averages. Sleep feature is one of my most valuable tools and you have ruined it. 

[Diane968]

I completely agreed.   I just had surgery on the 17th so I’m constantly taking naps at doctors orders and I’m getting nailed by these scores for it.  

[hmc71]

I am not seeing an average of the hours I sleep per week... this sleep score thing is stupid. not everyone sleeps the same or have the same things going on in their lives... my husband is terminally ill, I already know I don’t sleep well so seeing 70 & Fair or 59 & Poor just adds more unnecessary stress to an already stressful life. Please bring back the averages

[MamaDog48]

I totally agree with you. There’s enough on your plate without adding more. Bless you and stay strong. I’ve been in your situation and know how hard it is. 

[bryrock]

I agree, if we must have Sleep scores, please make them optional.  I don't find the information at all useful, in particular when looking back at the week's average; I'd much rather see how much sleep I got on average, not a nutty score.

[Broncoquen007]

You can still get your average sleep score if you sign up to receive weekly Fitbit Progress emails from Fitbit. It gives you your average hours of sleep your average calories Burned, Your average heart rate your average steps and everything.

[bryrock]

Yes, I am aware of that.  I've received the weekly report for years.

[MamaDog48]

Me too

Sent from my iPhone

[aquariusrick]

THERE IS A SOLUTION IN THE APP!!

@Dominique wrote:

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Average time asleep IS still there. How you get to it is documented (complete with screenshots) in this very topic.

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https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Sleep-Better/Score-Sleep/m-p/3741784/highlight/true#M7931

[RhiannonMari]

I've gotten just under 4 hours sleep at least 3 nights this week, and Fitbit scores them as "fair". I never get restful sleep....and when the goal is 8 hours and you're getting barely more than half...that hardly seems "fair" to me. And I too have had some nights of more sleep that score less...I get it's about more than duration, but as far as I can tell, the amounts for each stage are not much different each night. Sighs. I don't like this.

[ZeeDub]

I don't want to have to track down info outside of app. I don't want to see the grading at all. It is counterproductive to grade my sleep. Just what I need is to be tested every night. I was much more encouraged by the way sleep was before this unnecessary "upgrade".

[ZeeDub]

I get those weekly emails. I want to be able to track on a DAILY basis within the app itself like it was before this "upgrade". Question: do you find the score useful to you and why? I have yet to see the pluses.

[mlaureti]

Hello again. the whole sleep score thing made me question de validity of my sleep cycle times. I did a test: I slept with 2 fitbit hr 2 on the same arm.  My son and I have the same model.

I have 3 days worth of data and I am very surprised at the results. They are both accurate on the sleep total time, on the number of sleep stages but... The sleep stage values are very different. The results are all over the place and obviously I am getting very different overall results scores.  Which one is more accurate? 

Wednesday:

Rem sleep: 59mins vs 1h29

Deep sleep: 1h27 vs 1h43

Thursday:

Rem sleep: 1h40 vs 1h06

Deep sleep: 1h22 vs 54mins

Today:

Rem sleep: 1h01 vs 38min

Deep sleep: 1h40 vs 1h40

Moral of the story... The way we feel is way more accurate than the watch. When I wake up refreshed but the report gives me bad sleep cycle numbers, the watch is definitely wrong. I wonder how many times those results probably negatively affected my day?

My oldest son also has an hr2... I might continue my test I write a little blog post. TBD

[philchenevert]

I am repeating myself but I never lost any of the information that as available before the 'score' u pdate.  I still have a hypnograph of my night showing all the stages I went through: NREM 1, 2,and deep sleep NREM3 as well as my REM sleep.  Everything is still there including the nifty ability to compare my results in all areas with averages for men my age.   Just glad I can still check everything.  I have not bought the Premium offer, it doesn't seem beneficial or to add anything.  

EDIT: my sleep score is vaguely representative of what happens each night but I don't really look at it. 

[ElllTeee]

Please let users opt out of this meaningless and arbitrary numbering called Sleep Score. 

[JerrytheK]

  I have the same problem I think it's a bunch of nonsense. If you compare several days the scores often make no sense. I really wish you could get the total hours slept each week back on the display.