Rules & Fair Play
Clickboard has one rule: click for real. Everything else follows from that.
How a session works
You type a name, hit "Start clicking," and the counter starts at zero. Every click you make adds one to your count, and your session — its name, its id, its running total — is saved to that browser's local storage as you go. Close the tab, close the browser, or refresh the page, and nothing is lost: come back in the same browser and Clickboard picks the same session back up automatically, right where you left it, ready to keep clicking.
That also means the score belongs to that browser, not to an account. Open the site in a different browser, a private or incognito window, or a different device, and you'll get a fresh entry form and a brand-new session starting at zero — your earlier score keeps its place on the leaderboard, but the two aren't linked. There's no button to intentionally start over in the browser you're already playing in; the only way to do that is to clear that browser's stored site data for Clickboard.
How fast you can score
The server, not your browser, decides how many of your clicks count. Your browser sends its clicks in small batches about once a second, and the server accepts them at up to 15 clicks per second, averaged over time. A session builds up allowance while you click below that rate, so a short burst above it still counts in full, but over a longer stretch the total can't grow faster than 15 per second. Clicks above that are dropped, and the counter on screen corrects itself to the server's number at the next sync.
Most people click well under that rate, so for ordinary play nothing is ever dropped. The fastest techniques, like butterfly or drag clicking, can go above it in short bursts. The Click Speed Guide explains why.
Be clear about what this does and doesn't do. The cap limits how quickly any session can grow, which stops an autoclicker from adding thousands of clicks a second. It doesn't detect whether a person or a program is doing the clicking. A script running at or below the cap would still be counted. That's why automation is against the Terms of Use, and why entries that are clearly automated, such as a score that kept rising at the maximum rate for hours on end, can be removed when reported.
The Today board
The Today view lists sessions that were started since midnight UTC, ranked by their total clicks. Because a session carries on for as long as you keep using the same browser, a session you started on an earlier day stays on the all-time board but won't appear under Today, even if you're clicking in it right now. Think of Today as "today's new players".
One name, one best score
If you end up with more than one live session under the same name from the same connection — say, one in your regular browser and another in a private window or a different device — only the best score is kept. The lower one is cleared off the board automatically, usually within moments, and if it's the session you're actively clicking in, it'll stop counting and let you know. Playing under a different name always starts a fresh, separate entry with no link back to your other scores.
Why we don't let you edit or delete a score
Every click that reaches the board is part of the historical record of who reached what. Letting people edit scores after the fact would undermine the one thing a leaderboard is supposed to guarantee — that the number next to a name is what actually happened.
The one sanctioned exception is the Store: spending clicks there — for example, on a new name — really does lower your total, on purpose and by a fixed, published price. That's a deliberate trade you choose to make, visible to everyone as part of what happened, not a retroactive edit to hide a lower score or inflate a higher one.
Reporting a problem
If you think a score on the board is the result of cheating rather than a false positive on your own end, or you've found a way to trigger a bug, use the Contact page to reach the site operator. Include the name on the board and roughly when it appeared.
Names on the board
The leaderboard is public, so names are filtered for obvious slurs and profanity when a session starts or is renamed. Some will always slip through a simple filter. If you see a name that is offensive, hateful, or uses someone else's personal information, report it through the Contact page and it will be removed.