Classic is the standard Twenty Peaks event format, and the one most events use. You have a set of official routes and a season to ride them in: complete as many as you can, as fast as you can, in any order you like.
Is this your event?
You're on a Classic event if it lists several routes you can ride in any order, over a season rather than a single day, and the leaderboard ranks riders by score rather than by time. If your event instead repeats one loop against the clock, fixes the order of its routes, or ranks purely on time, see Timed Loop, Stage Race or Fastest Time.
What counts as a result
Each route is scored on your fastest attempt of it. Ride a route once and that ride is your result; ride it again and only the quicker of the two counts.
A slower repeat never costs you anything — your existing result simply stays. So there's no risk in going back to a route to try to improve it.
Route difficulty
Every climb is rated for its average slope, its length, and its type (road or off-road). That rating is the route's difficulty — it comes from the route itself, not from how hard you pushed, so it's the same for everyone who rides it.
In short: long, steep and off-road routes are worth more than short, flat, paved ones. You don't have to work it out — each route shows its own difficulty.
How your Score is built
Your Score is where finishing quickly pays off. Think of each route as giving you a time budget, sized by its difficulty — the harder the route, the more generous the budget. Your actual time on that route is subtracted from it, and every minute you come in under budget becomes a point.
If you finish a route slower than its budget, it simply scores 0 — it never goes negative. Your event Score is the sum of these route points across all your completions. So a hard route gives you more room to earn points, and going faster keeps more of it.
How the leaderboard is ordered
The Classic leaderboard shows three values next to your name:
- Total time — your route times added together.
- Routes — how many official routes you've completed.
- Score — the points described above.
Places are decided by Score, highest first. If two riders finish on the same Score, the one with the lower total time is placed ahead. The Score column is the ordering key, so you can read your standing straight off the table.
Becoming a Finisher
You become a Finisher by completing at least the number of distinct routes the event requires. That number is set per event. Once you've earned it, it stays.
Worth knowing
Because Score rewards speed and difficulty together, completing a hard route steadily can be worth more than rushing an easy one. Riding more routes almost always helps — every completion adds its own points, and none of them can subtract.
Other event formats
Not the event you're in? See Timed Loop, Stage Race or Fastest Time.
Related: Categories (gender & age) · Becoming a Finisher · Mountain Master ranking · Following the official route · Did my activity count?
