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An all-time board with no accounts has one honest rule: one name, one spot

Nothing stops a player from posting under the same name twice except a server deciding not to let the second run sit next to the first.

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Right after the Daily Climb and Weekly Peak online boards shipped, two questions came back: is the ranking actually across every player, and — in the next message — what about all-time highs? The first was already true. The second wasn't: each period board only showed the window that was currently open (plus one period back), so a great run quietly aged out of view at the end of its own day or week. The only all-time list anywhere was private — the Top 10 kept on one device.

Fed by every run that verifies, not just the winners

Two new boards, ever-daily and ever-weekly, kept separate because the Daily and Weekly mountains aren't generated the same way and their scores don't belong on one scale. Every run that passes the server's replay check is offered to its all-time board, whether or not it placed in that day's or week's own top ten — a quiet Tuesday's tenth-best run can still be a good all-time score, and it would never have been considered under the old rule.

Why one name can only hold one place

There's no login. Nothing but a server-side rule stops one player from submitting the same strong run's name nine more times with small variations and occupying the entire board. The rule: a name is collapsed to one identity — case, spaces and a handful of punctuation marks ignored — and that identity gets exactly one row. A better run replaces its name's old entry; an equal or worse one changes nothing.

50 kept / 10 shownboth all-time boards, like the period boards before them — a run placed 11th through 50th is stored but never announced as a rank

It's an honest trade, not a perfect one. Without an account behind a name, a higher score posted later under the same spelling simply takes that name's place on the board — there's no ownership to defend. That's the cost of a leaderboard with no sign-up. The alternative, letting one name occupy the whole top ten, seemed like the worse problem to leave unsolved.