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# Create your own Challenge

## Read this article to learn how you can create your own challenge for a small group or just for yourself as well as set your own goals.

**Article content:** 

**1. Friend challenges**

**2. Personal targets** 

 

In HeiaHeia, every user can now create their own challenges. Challenges can be created for friends to foster friendly competition, or they can be set as personal goals for individual tracking. Starting a challenge is easy, and you can track exercise hours or times, distance, amount of activity types, or steps.

In the HeiaHeia Pro version, you can start your personal challenges alongside company-wide challenges, as these are designed for small groups (1–200 members). In our free version, challenges can be started for 1–4 participants.

You can define the challenge yourself or choose a challenge from our pre-made selections.

![Lets start](https://support.heiaheia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Lets%20start.jpeg?width=417&height=300&name=Lets%20start.jpeg)

### 1. Friend Challenges

Friend challenges are ideal for small to large groups and offer fun, playful competition. You can engage in friendly competition by tracking who accumulates the most steps, explores the highest number of different activities, or achieves e.g. the longest skiing or running distances.

### Creating a Challenge

Challenges can be created from the '**Select one or many challenges to follow**' banner on the HeiaHeia app's homepage banner carousel (or from the 'My Challenges' section, on the 4. page of the app)

Choose '**Friend Challenges'**: Here you can start a ready-made challenge or create your own challenge.

#### ![Challenge type](https://support.heiaheia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Challenge%20type.png?width=266&height=465&name=Challenge%20type.png)![Your own or ready-made challenge](https://support.heiaheia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Your%20own%20or%20ready-made%20challenge.png?width=248&height=462&name=Your%20own%20or%20ready-made%20challenge.png)

#### Ready made challenges

- Choose a challenge of your choice.
- Select challenge participants, and adjust the challenge dates if needed.
- Finally, tap on 'Create'.

#### Define your own challenge: ![Create challenge](https://support.heiaheia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Create%20challenge.png?width=300&height=527&name=Create%20challenge.png)

Tap on 'Start' on the challenge wizard and fill in the following details:

- **Challenge title**
- **Challenge description** (optional)
- **Participants** 
    - **Friend challenge**: Invite up to 200 participants who are members of the same (organization) community. Invited participants will receive a notification in the HeiaHeia app.
    - **Individual challenge**: If you want to create a challenge just for yourself, simply do not invite anyone to join.
- **Start and end dates**
- **Challenge unit** (choose one): 
    - Exercise hours
    - Distance (kilometers/miles)
    - Number of different activity types
    - Steps
- **Activity types** 
    - Select which activity types you'd like to include in the challenge (only applicable if you have selected 'Exercise hours' or 'Distance' as a unit.)
- **Finally**, choose the background colour for the challenge and press "Create."

 

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### Useful Tips

- **Admin rights**: The creator of the challenge acts as the admin and can make changes or delete the challenge.
- **Editing**: The admin can edit the challenge by opening it and selecting "Edit." You can edit the same details as when creating the challenge.
- **Deleting**: The admin can delete the challenge by opening it and pressing the three dots icon in the top right corner.
- **Top list**: While the challenge is running, participants will see themselves and four other participants in the front-page top list. The full leaderboard is available by pressing the "Open" button on the challenge card.
- **Challenge participants**: Every participant in a challenge can see how many people have accepted the invitation to join the challenge. The admin, however, can see who is yet to accept.
- **Challenge participants:** The challenge is only visible to the invited participants once they accept the invitation.
- **Multiple challenges**: Users can create multiple challenges, however only up to 10 challenge cards will be visible on the screen at a time. In our Free version, you can create up to three challenges.
- **Challenge end**: A completed challenge will remain visible for a week before being removed.

 

 

### 2. **Personal targets**

Challenge yourself and set your own personal target. Tap on **Let's Start** on the '**Choose one or more challenges to follow'** banner within the homepage carousel  (or navigate to 'My Challenges' on the  4. page of the app) and select **Personal targets** as challenge type. 

Here you can define your **individual challenge** or set the following **ready-made target**s:  

- **Recurring weekly goal** 
    - Your personal weekly goal for hours, distance or number of workouts.![Personal targets](https://support.heiaheia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Personal%20targets.png?width=310&height=566&name=Personal%20targets.png)
    - Tap on **Select** and set as home page card.
    - Open the front page card by tapping on the question mark and set a goal. Or remove from front page.
- **Me vs. recommendations** 
    - Weekly target divided into two categories: Endurance OR Strength & Mobility.
    - Track your activity levels compared to common healthy lifestyle recommendations.
    - Tap on **Select** and set as the home page card.
- **Collect Step streaks** 
    - Track on how many days you can beat your own daily step target.
    - Tap on  **Select** and set as home page card.
    - You can edit the step target in the Settings of your profile.

  

 

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