The Learner's Handbook

🎉Before and after each session

1. Ready to start?

   Most sessions open by asking Sound on or Sound off, plus treble or bass clef for Chain, 5-Note Range and Chord Inversions.

2. Session complete

   A popup shows your first-try score (in Game Mode, the level result). View score breakdown opens a table of what you got right, weakest first; Hide folds it away.

3. Review your mistakes

   Under the breakdown, Review mistakes replays the intervals you missed as a quick drill. Guide Notes and chord misses have no interval to replay, so they’re left out.

🔓Unlocking it

App score opens when all three are true. Until then, a countdown on Home shows what

App score opens when all three are true. Until then, the Leaderboard’s App score side shows what’s left.

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App score opens when all three are true. Until then, the Leaderboard’s App score side shows what’s left.

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1. Finish Game Mode

   Every level passed, all seven.

2. Put the hours in

   5 hours of practice, or 2,500 questions answered.

3. Read well

   A Reading Level of 8.5 or more (see My Progress).

1. The offer

   The moment you qualify, this popup appears: Turn it on or Not now. Change your mind any time with the switch on the Leaderboard’s App score side.

   

⏱How points work

With App score on, a clock counts up in the top-left of the staff on every question. Answer right first time and your points appear beside it, like ⏱ 3.4s +16. A wrong first try or Show Answer scores 0, and the clock pauses while a popup covers the question.

1. The timer

   Find the Start answered in 2.2 seconds: full marks, +20.

   

Most modes means 5-Note Range, Chain, Guide Notes and Chord Inversions. Play the Note and Find the Start score double: you find the key, or count from a guide note, before you answer. Checkpoint, the Challenge tab and mistake reviews don’t score.

⚡Where you see it

Weeks run Monday to Sunday (Malaysia/Singapore time). Points and bests start fresh each Monday, and last week’s stay on show to beat.

1. During a session

   A ⚡ Points card under the staff keeps the running total.

2. At the end

   The session popup shows your points out of the maximum, this week’s total, and your best for that mode this week and last week.

   

3. On Home

   This week’s points beside last week’s, with the difference.

   

4. In My Progress

   A ⚡ App score tab under Progress over time: points per day for each mode, this week against last week.

   

5. On the Leaderboard

   The App score side ranks opted-in players worldwide on this week’s points, and lists your best session in each mode (10, 20 or 50 notes). Switch it off and you leave that side; your points are kept.

   

☰Where they are

Open the menu and the four items sit together, right under Game Mode.

1. Open the menu

   Tap the three-line button at the top right, then any of the four ringed items. A locked item shows a padlock: that account needs Pro.

   

📊My Progress

A record of every finished session, updated the moment it ends. Reading Level and the skills breakdown are Pro; the rest is on every account.

1. The summary

   Six figures: Reading Level out of 10, first-try accuracy, total questions, sessions, day streak and average response time, plus one line of advice on what's next.

   

2. Your reading skills

   Three groups — Intervals, Guide Notes, Chord Inversions. Tap one for a bar per interval size, landmark or inversion (needs 5+ first-try answers to count).

   

3. Progress over time

   One chart per mode, one bar per practice day, switching between Accuracy, Response time and, once unlocked, ⚡ App score. Tap a bar for the exact figure and date; below is a worst-first table and a day-by-day log.

   

🏆Weekly Challenge

One fixed, server-graded question set each week, identical for everyone, one attempt Monday to Sunday. The format rotates through four: Sprint (2 minutes, most correct wins), Speed 30 (30 questions, fastest time: a wrong answer adds 5 seconds and, from 12/10/2026, a right one takes 1 second off, shown beside the clock), Sudden Death (first mistake or 10 minutes ends it) and The Full Sweep (40 questions across everything Game Mode has taught).

1. Read the rules, then Start

   The first open each week shows this card. Nothing starts until you tap Start — that's your one run for the week.

   

2. Play it

   Looks like normal practice, clock/streak/count along the top. Only the first tap counts — no retries here.

   

3. Your result

   One go a week, so warm up with normal practice first. Your result goes straight onto the leaderboard's challenge tab.

   

🎯Ranked Practice

Ordinary practice that counts: 1 point per correct answer toward the week's leaderboard, plus a bonus for 75%+ or 90%+ sessions. Capped at 60/day — three short sessions beat one long one, and the board rewards the habit, not the binge.

1. Pick a mode

   Chain, Guide Notes, Find the Start or Chord Inversions, 20 questions each.

   

2. Answer 20 questions

   Same screen as the Weekly Challenge. Points bank only when question 20 is answered. Closed early? Pick the same mode again the same day to carry on where you stopped, or tap Resume on Home.

   

🥇Leaderboard

As a solo learner, your board is the global one: every opted-in player, this week only. It has two sides: Ranked, with the two tabs below, and ⚡ App score. Your own row is highlighted, showing the top three plus the players around you.

1. Players worldwide

   The Practice points tab, ranked by this week’s Ranked Practice.

   

2. This week’s challenge

   The second tab ranks the Weekly Challenge, in that format’s own units.

   

3. App score side

   Tap ⚡ App score at the top to rank this week’s App score points instead. It also holds your on/off switch and your best sessions. See App score.

   

🏆Checkpoints

A short check-in the app sets for you every so often: 50 mixed questions in 18 minutes, one go. Not a test you can fail — a snapshot across the three skills that matter most for reading at the piano. Checkpoints need Pro.

When one comes up. The first unlocks once a sub-level is passed in each of Guide Notes, Play the Note and Chord Inversions. After that, every 5 further sub-levels — or every 5 sessions once Game Mode is finished. Questions are always set at the hardest sub-level passed, so it's always on material actually learned.

1. The announcement

   Appears on Home when a Checkpoint becomes available. Let me practice more puts it off with no penalty.

   

2. The Home card

   Shows what's needed before the first one, or how long until the next. When ready, tap Start Checkpoint.

   

3. Taking it

   13 Guide Notes, 10 Find the Start, 13 Chord Inversions, then 14 Play the Note questions, one 18-minute clock. Each section starts on a clean staff, the numbering carries on, and the question you’re on is the blue note. Only the first answer counts, and the score is kept whether time runs out or not.

   

🏅Ranks

Your rank shows how your reading is going overall, from 🌱 Interval Rookie to 👑 Interval Maestro — worked out from lifetime accuracy, questions answered, and practice streak. Keep all three moving and you climb; let the streak lapse and you can slip back. Unlocks once Levels 1–3 are passed.

1. The badge

   Sits in the header next to the app name once unlocked. Tap it to open the ladder.

   

2. The ladder

   All five tiers, current one highlighted, with the exact numbers still needed for the next: green if met, red if not.

   

⚙Opening it

Tap Settings in the header, between the menu button and the theme toggle. Tap again, or anywhere outside, to close it — or press S on a keyboard.

1. The Settings button

   Always in the header, in every mode. It lights up while the panel is open.

   

🎵What the panel shows in each mode

The top changes per mode; Playback, Difficulty and Display at the bottom stay the same everywhere.

1. 5-Note Range

   Clef: treble or bass. Starting Note: Random or a fixed landmark. Session Length: 10, 20, 50 or Unlimited.

   

2. Chain

   Interval Range sets the smallest/largest interval (default Unison–5th); Direction limits jumps to Up, Down or Both. Same two controls apply in Play the Note when using Chain.

   

3. Chord Inversions

   Chord Type switches triads to 7th chords (adds a 3rd inversion). Guide Notes has no controls of its own beyond Session Length.

   

4. The shared controls

   Playback: untick Play sound to silence auto-play and the ▶ button — clicking a note on the staff still plays it, since that's a deliberate check, not the app giving away the answer. Difficulty: Adaptive asks more of the sizes you get wrong most. Display: untick Show notes on staff to answer from sound alone (needs Play sound on) — a reading drill becomes ear training.

   

✅Apply and Cancel

A changed control doesn't take effect until Apply, which only lights up once something's changed.

1. Change, then Apply

   Tap Apply: the panel closes and a fresh session starts on the new settings. On Challenge, Apply just sets the values — press Start when ready.

   

2. Or Cancel

   Reverts every control and leaves the current session untouched. Tapping outside with unapplied changes asks first, so a stray tap can't lose or apply them by accident.

   

During a timed run (Challenge or Checkpoint), Apply stays off until you finish or end it.