What Is a Snapchat Score, and Should I Care About It?

You may have heard about Snapchat scores and are now wondering if you need to care about them. The answer to that question is it depends.

Snapchat scores are fun to keep track of, and for some users can climb into the millions.

But what exactly is a Snapchat score and can you raise it?

A Brief Overview of Snapchat Score

First, the basics about your Snapchat Score.

A Snapchat score is the sum total of all of your activity on Snapchat.

Those with a lot of posts, a lot of activity, and a lot of users added will have higher scores than those with less activity or activity in only one of those areas.

You also get extra points for creativity.

What?

Yep.

Sending a snap versus sending a direct message or sending images versus sending plain text will get you a higher score.

But what else will get you a higher score?

How Can You Raise Your Snap Score?

Honestly, the best way to raise your score is simply to spend more time in the app, playing with the features, making friends, and sharing photos and videos.

Tips for raising your snap score include:

• Adding more friends to your account
• Sending more snaps
• Getting more snaps from others
• Posting stories to your account
• Maintaining a snap streak with friends (a Snapchat streak begins when you send and receive snaps with a friend every 24 hours for three consecutive days).
• Getting bonus points when you return to Snapchat after having been away for a while.

As you can see, the trick is to spend a lot of time on the app. It becomes a game of sorts to see how high you can get your score to go, how many people you can pull into your snaps, and how active you can remain over an extended period of time.

But be careful not to fall prey to third-party companies promising to raise your Snapchat score for you.

They are all scammers.

The entire point of the score is to have fun on Snapchat. The score does not actually do anything for you. You can’t buy anything with it or trade anything for it.

It’s just a visual of how much time you spend playing on the app, so there’s no need to cheat your way to the top.

How Is Your Snap Score Calculated?

So, how exactly is your Snap score calculated?

Well, as noted above, Snapchat uses a mysterious calculation that includes the number of snaps you have sent, the number of snaps you have received, how many streaks you have kept with friends, how often you have posted to your stories, how many new friends you add, and whether you start using the app again after not using it for a while.

However, the way the score is calculated isn’t clear to the user. Actions don’t necessarily directly correlate to a certain point increase.

For example, if you add a friend and post a story, your score will not go up by 2 points. It’s not that direct.

The score is simply (or not so simply) an amalgamation of all of your Snapchat activity.

It’s important to note that to increase your score, you need to actually post photos and videos, even in the case of messaging. Simply texting will not increase your score and sending the same snap to multiple users will also not raise your Snap score. 

What Is the Highest Snap Score You Can Achieve?

Even though Snap scores don’t have any tangible value, they can appeal to your inner competitor. If you’ve been competitive over scores since you played Sonic the Hedgehog as a kid, you might not be able to keep yourself from aiming for the high score.

But how high can you go?

Well, in this case, the sky is the limit.

It really is like those old pinball machines where a new person is constantly competing for the highest score, just for bragging rights.

As of this writing, the current “winner” of the highest score is a user named Dion with a score of 237 million plus.

Of course, we have no way of knowing how he got that score or how long Dion has been on Snapchat.

Snapchat has been around since 2011, originally called Picaboo. So, Dion could have been growing his score since shortly after that launch.

They could have taken years to get to that score with mere daily check-ins and activity posts.

Or they may be a serious Snapchat addict, hanging out all day every day on Snapchat.

Not everyone has that kind of time.

Can you aim to beat Dion?

Sure.

Do you really want to? Do you really need to?

Probably not.

It’s likely more fun just to maintain streaks and compete for highest score within your own circle of friends.

What Activities Improve Your Snap Score?

If you’re hoping to increase your score quickly to gain bragging rights among your friends, the fastest way to do it is to send regular, unique photos to a large group of friends.

This approach will kill several birds with one stone: you’ll find yourself seeking new friends to grow your group, you’ll step into a creative space wherein you continually come up with new and unique ways to make snaps, you’ll be sending those snaps to an increasingly larger group, and you’ll be receiving snaps in return in the form of feedback.

Add to that your close friends will likely end up in multiple streaks with you.

Before you know it, you’ll have a high score, and you’ll be snapping that to people!

In the end, the point of Snapchat score is just to enjoy yourself, engage with others enjoying themselves, and have lighthearted competitions.

Now that you know all about the Snapchat score, you can enjoy treating it like a game – or ignoring it altogether. Do you have any tips or tricks for increasing your Snapchat score? We’d love to hear about them in the comments!