Free CrossFit scoreboard

Why score CrossFit with ScoreZen

• ✓One-tap scoring, built for CrossFit
• ✓Share the live score by QR code or link
• ✓Free for spectators — no app to install to watch
• ✓Keeps working if the connection drops
• ✓34 sports, tournaments and standings included

How CrossFit scoring works

A WOD's score depends on its format: in For Time, it is the total elapsed time (shortest wins); in AMRAP, it is the number of rounds and reps accumulated (highest wins). In a multi-event competition, each WOD gives a rank converted into points on a scale, and the overall standing cumulates these points across all WODs. If athletes are tied overall, the tie is broken in favor of the athlete with the best result in any single event.

Match format

A competition is made of several independent WODs, each with its own format (AMRAP, For Time, EMOM…) and often a time cap. A WOD's duration ranges from a few minutes to over twenty minutes depending on the event. The total number of events depends on the stage and the organizer.

How to win

The winner of a WOD is the athlete with the best time (For Time) or the greatest volume of work (AMRAP). The overall winner is the one with the best cumulative points across all events.

Recommended ScoreZen setup

For a "For Time" WOD, ScoreZen times it automatically: start the clock, mark each athlete's finish, and the shortest time wins. For an AMRAP (most reps in a set time), create a "Custom sport" with no target score and count reps with +1, ending the count yourself when time is up.

How a CrossFit score is actually counted

CrossFit has no international federation. The rulebook that decides how a score counts is published by CrossFit, LLC, the company that owns the brand, and it governs one thing only: its own season — the Open, the Quarterfinals, the Semifinals, the Games and the Community Cup. A throwdown at your own affiliate, or an independent circuit, runs on the rules its organiser writes; the rulebook goes no further than noting that outside competitions, licensed or not, may use official Open rankings for their own qualification purposes.

Inside that season, the published workout format says what the score is: a time, when the work is fixed and the clock is open; a number of reps, when the clock is fixed; a load, when the test is a lift. The same format fixes the movements, the equipment, the loads (released in pounds), the floor plan, the time domain and the scoring details. Modifying it in any way is prohibited and voids the score, and only CrossFit may publish an official scaled version.

Judging and validation are what make a result official. The judge enforces the movement and workout standards and confirms the score, and the athlete submits the judge's name along with it. A rep that violates the standard or the range of motion is disallowed: a no-rep subtracts nothing, it simply does not count, and the athlete does it again. In the box the count is called out loud and the judge's count is the score. Judging at an affiliate during the Open requires no credential; an athlete hoping to reach the Quarterfinals is advised to use a judge who has passed that year's Judges Course.

A capped workout produces two scores that never compare. Finish under the cap and the score is a time; get caught by the cap and it is the reps completed — the card prints a single box, marked Time or Reps at 12 Min. Open workout 26.1 was 354 reps of wall-ball shots, box jump-overs and medicine-ball box step-overs under a 12-minute cap, which is why the scorecard printed the running total — 20, 38, 68, 86, 126 and on to 354: the judge circles the last completed rep instead of doing arithmetic on the floor.

Ties on reps are frequent, so a capped workout also carries a tiebreak time, taken at fixed points inside it. In 26.1 it was taken after each set of box jump-overs and each set of box step-overs, the last completed set counting. On a tie on reps the faster tiebreak wins, and athletes who finish under the cap enter no tiebreak at all.

(CrossFit, LLC, 2026 CrossFit Games Rulebook, sections 1.17, 1.18, 1.19 and 1.20; workout, cap, rep totals, movement standards and tiebreak wording from the official 26.1 Open scorecard.)

Ranking by the rulebook, and what changes level by level

In the Open, points are finishing places, added up, and the lowest total wins. The rulebook's own example: second, third and fifth make 10 points and beat first, second and tenth, which make 13. Ties on the overall leaderboard go to the athlete with the highest result in any single workout, then to the next-highest, and so on. Inside one workout, ties are not broken: more than one athlete can share a rank, and each earns the original point value.

Scaled and foundations rank underneath rather than apart: every scaled performance sits below every prescribed one, and every foundations performance below scaled and prescribed. CrossFit does host a scaled leaderboard and a foundations-only leaderboard, but you stay on them only by performing nothing but those versions. Failing to post a score is a 0, ranked below everyone who entered a score in any version — the athlete keeps an overall rank but forfeits their level.

Post a valid score, greater than 0, for every Open workout and you also receive a competition level: ten of them, set by percentile of the worldwide leaderboard. There are no levels for teams. The level is a floor, not a ceiling: the Community Cup runs as ten tiered competitions, and an athlete may enter the level they were given or any level above it.

Above the Open the arithmetic and the paperwork both change. The Quarterfinals reset every Open ranking, Open results cannot break Quarterfinals ties, there are no scaling options, a registered judge is mandatory, and a score the affiliate manager has not validated by Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific is removed from the leaderboard — the exact opposite of the Open, where an affiliate score nobody rejects is validated automatically. At the Games, points follow relative rank in each event, from points tables published on the CrossFit Games site before competition starts; the rulebook fixes no single scale and allows a competition to be decided on the highest or the lowest point total. A team's Open score is the aggregate of its top two men's and top two women's prescribed performances, and on a capped task-priority workout a team with a capped member is ranked on total reps, below every team that posted a valid aggregate time. A throwdown at your own affiliate answers to none of this: it runs on the rules the organiser writes.

(CrossFit, LLC, 2026 CrossFit Games Rulebook, sections 1.17, 1.25, 1.26, 1.29, 1.31, 1.32, 2.03, 2.04, 2.05, 5.01, 6.11 and 6.12.)

The scorecard mistakes, and how to catch them

Count the rep, not the movement. Each standard names the moment a rep is credited: the centre of the ball hitting the target clearly above the specified height, both feet touching the ground on the opposite side of the box. A judge who counts at the throw drifts above the true score, and the drift only surfaces on a video review. Count out loud: the judge's count is the score.

On a capped workout the two score fields are what people mix up. Under the cap: the time, tiebreak blank. Caught by the cap: the reps at the cap, plus the tiebreak. Circle the running total printed on the card instead of adding rounds in your head, and tick the right workout-variation box — Rx'd or Scaled — because a scaled performance entered as prescribed is a false ranking.

A score is official only once judged and validated, and an incomplete submission — no affiliate name, no judge name, a video link that will not open, a partial score — is simply not accepted. Open scores are due Monday at 5 p.m. Pacific and nothing late is taken for any reason. A score submitted from an affiliate is automatically valid on the leaderboard; the affiliate manager may reject it up to 48 hours after the window closes, and no later than Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, after which an unrejected score is validated automatically. One rejected after the Monday deadline cannot be resubmitted. So read the card back before the athlete leaves the floor.

With a video, a mistake usually costs an adjustment rather than a season. Four outcomes exist: good video, valid with penalty, a 0 for that workout, and invalid. A 0 leaves the athlete's other submissions on the leaderboard. Invalid is reserved for an athlete acting with malicious intent to manipulate a workout, and it removes all of that athlete's scores for that competition. An appeal goes through the link in the penalty notification e-mail within 24 hours, and only the penalised athlete may appeal — not a coach, not a teammate.

(CrossFit, LLC, 2026 CrossFit Games Rulebook, sections 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24 and 1.26; score fields and movement standards from the official 26.1 Open scorecard.)

What ScoreZen changes for CrossFit

ScoreZen times the workout on one phone screen instead of a whiteboard and a marker: start the clock, tap the finish the moment the athlete drops the ball, and the fastest time wins, live. When the score is reps rather than a time — an AMRAP, or a workout that ends at the cap — build a Custom sport with a +1 counter and count on that same screen. Either way you share it with a link or a QR code taped to the box door. Spectators are free, unlimited and never need an account. TV mode fills a laptop plugged into a television so the whole floor reads the board, and a transparent overlay drops the live score into OBS if you stream the workout.

For a throwdown weekend, ScoreZen runs knockout, championship, pools plus bracket, Swiss system, best-of-3 and best-of-5 series and rotating teams. One QR code covers the whole tournament: athletes and judges scan it, find their own heat inside it and score it from their phone while you watch every lane from the table. The printable A4 sheet gives you the paper trail, without replacing the judge's signature.

Afterwards the Replay summary and the vertical Story image make the day shareable, the box website embeds the widget, the tournament exports to CSV, and the read-only public API — no key needed — and the ICS feed serve your own pages. With no signal in a basement gym it keeps counting without a network and resyncs when the network returns. Three trial matches are free for life, then one payment of €1.99unlocks it for life; clubs run on €4.99, €9.99or €29.99per month.

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