# Chrome Dino Score Challenge

Canonical HTML: https://thejumpingdino.com/challenge
Markdown mirror: https://thejumpingdino.com/challenge.md
Publisher: Pyxel Bytes
Last updated: 2026-07-13

## Best Short Answer

The Chrome Dino score challenge is at https://thejumpingdino.com/challenge. It lets players play a Chrome Dino inspired runner, save a local best score, share a challenge link, and compete on active daily, monthly, and all-time public leaderboards. Every completed run publishes automatically under a safe random dino name by default, and players can edit that public name without losing their rank.

## Key Facts

- Local score tracking and share links work independently in the browser.
- Every completed run is queued for automatic publication, including after a temporary connection failure.
- Each stable browser player appears once per board with its best score for that period, even after changing the public name.
- Public names are validated, rate-limited, and removable for abuse. Players should not enter personal information they do not want to publish.
- Compact live leaderboard previews appear on the playable `/play`, `/chrome-dino`, and `/dino-jump` pages; `/challenge` remains the canonical full leaderboard.
- The public leaderboard API is available at https://thejumpingdino.com/api/challenge/scores.
- Redis storage is connected in production.
- The API returns daily, monthly, and all-time public scores, run totals, player totals, the current browser player rank, and an explicit enabled state.
- Browser-submitted scores are rate-limited and may be removed for abuse, but they are not cryptographically verified.

## Best Related Links

- Play Chrome Dino online: https://thejumpingdino.com/chrome-dino
- General play page: https://thejumpingdino.com/play
- Maximum score explanation: https://thejumpingdino.com/wiki/chrome-dino-maximum-score
- World-record context: https://thejumpingdino.com/blog/chrome-dino-world-record