I come to understand what you were trying to say, that's really good amount of steps from a 66yo man/woman, hope not be impolite.. ... View more

I'm not defending Samsung, I'm not kind of fanboy with gears and other stuff or that kind of pseudo-health fanatic.  I'm just defending my idea that comparing yourself to the first players, those fist 10 runners, is just useless for the main purpose of an health lifestyle.. I have been a swimmer, besides other sports, for 10 years, a true athlete for 4 years and I'm now turning 19, I know which is the real meaning of sport and healty lifestyle. Bytheway, the amount of steps from the top runners is just inhumane but as I told before there are some jobs that require constant walking activity, it's not the case of our cheaters but also normal-looking people could achieve amazing distances.. ... View more

Did you accomplished the same amount of steps of January on November and on December?  If you walked the same distances in the 3 months and if, on November and on December, there were less cheaters, that would mean that cheaters do not only change the podium but also change the percentage positioning. But probably it wouldn't, as the percentage, as I understood, is calculated on the steps of every runner not on the top and lowest steps of the whole comunity.. ... View more

I totally agree with the fact that cheating just ruins every game and every challenge, sport included. I was just saying that is useless to compare ourselves to the top ones, even if they weren't cheaters. The samsung Health app and challenges are made to encourage people walk, breath fresh air, look around their normal day-life environment and maybe meet new healty support people. It's an app that helps us to track our physical activities, our diet and our psychophysical status.  Compare our steps and our improvements with friends and the percentage of the worldwide users is a more useful way to see the challenges.. Btw, that's all about my opinion. ... View more

I understand the fact that there are a lot, a lot, of cheaters that just ruin the challenge for the first 1% places  and first places on podium, but in fact, cheaters are probably 0,0001% of the total runners who were 1 178 027 in numbers on January... I could easly place myself in the first 30% of the total runners only by walking back and forth to school 335 934 steps in 30 days on January.  That low number of cheaters does not unbalance the whole worldwide percentage. ... View more

Sorry, I was pretending to calculate the days passed by subtracting the days remaining by the standard number of days in a month, 30 days, but in fact February has 28 day, not 30. So the calculation is 28-26=2, 2 days passed since the start of the Spa challenge. My fault. ... View more

There are some types of job that just require to walk, think about mountain guides or just a common runner.. Bytheway, my Samsung Health app displays record in steps not in km or miles, how do you obtain those distances you are talking about? ... View more

For the challene that is now taking place I cannot see an cheating going on. I mean, the first player has done 242 460 steps since the start, almost 4 days ago, that's 242 460 ÷ 3,5 (days) = 69.274 steps/day. That's not too much. I usually take from 8000 to 12000 steps a day and I'm a sedentary which take a walk only to get to school 1km away from home.. ... View more