How to track your progress in Run Game
Run Game tracks what you give it, so the habit that matters is simple: log every approach right after it happens. Everything else here, from the success rate to the funnel, is built from those small entries. This guide covers what you can log, what Stats shows back, and a short weekly routine that turns the numbers into a decision.
What you log
You log an approach in Run Game as one of two outcomes, Success or Rejected. Both count as approaches, and you decide which fits. Each entry can carry an optional note. There's no Pass button in Run Game anymore, so a moment where you wanted to approach and didn't isn't a logged approach. If you want to track those hesitations, write them in a session's notes or your own notes app.
Keep the note to one line while it's fresh: where you were, your opener, and one thing you'd change. "Gym, asked about her playlist, I rushed the follow-up" is enough. Notes are what you'll actually read later, so a specific one beats a long one.
Logging works offline and syncs when you have signal, so a basement bar or a train tunnel doesn't stop you. For more on why logging helps, see why tracking your approaches makes you better at them.
Sessions
A session groups a night out or a daytime outing into one block. You can give it a name and add notes. A name like "Saturday, downtown" or "campus, week 3" makes it easy to find later, and the notes are a good place for the things that aren't a single approach: how you felt walking in, what you skipped, and who you went with.
If you go out most weekends, naming sessions the same way each time makes comparing them easier.
What Stats shows
Stats turns your logs into four things:
| Stat | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Totals | How many approaches you've logged |
| Success rate | Successes divided by successes plus rejections |
| Streaks | Your streaks |
| Outcome funnel | Where your conversations go afterward |
Two details worth knowing. The success rate uses only Success and Rejected. And the funnel has stages: got number, texted, date set, went on a date, dating. It shows how far your conversations get, not only whether the first one went well.
A low success rate with a healthy funnel could mean many of your approaches don't land but the ones that do go far. A high success rate with a thin funnel could mean the first conversations go fine and the follow-up needs work. Those are possible readings, not verdicts, and the numbers get more useful the more entries sit behind them. Ten approaches is a small sample. Fifty tells you more.
Friends and the board
The Friends tab holds your friends, a weekly board of their approaches, and a leaderboard. If comparing yourself to others motivates you, it's there. If it doesn't, ignore it. Comparing this month's numbers with your own last month's is another option.
A 15-minute weekly review
Pick one day, like Sunday evening, and put it on your calendar. Then:
- Open Stats and write down your totals. Note approaches, successes and rejections on paper or in a note, with the date.
- Compare to last week's numbers. Did the count go up, hold or drop? A common rule of thumb is to look at the count first and the rate second, since a rate built on two approaches says little.
- Read your notes from the week. Underline anything that shows up twice, such as rushing the follow-up or opening with a question you didn't care about.
- Check the funnel. Did anyone move from number to text, or from text to date? If numbers are piling up with no texts, that's the stage to work on. What to text after you get a number is the place to start.
- Pick one change for next week. One. "Ask a second follow-up question before anything else" is a good one.
What to do next
- Log your next approach within five minutes of it ending, success or rejection, with a one-line note.
- Name your next session before you head out. Use a pattern like day plus place.
- Set a count goal, not an outcome goal. For example, 5 approaches this week. Dating goals you can control explains why counts work better than results.
- Put the weekly review in your calendar for the same time each week, 15 minutes.
- After 4 weeks, look for patterns. Which places, times and openers produced your best conversations? Sticking points helps if you find the same problem repeating.
- Turn one good night into a field report on the forum. It starts from a short template: where, what happened, what worked, and what you'd do differently. How to write a field report walks through it.
- Install Run Game on your home screen so it opens fast and offline logging is ready. Here's how.