Halfsies Scoring Explained: How to Read Your 300

Three cuts, one hundred points each. Here is what the number is actually measuring.

THE LEDGER  ·  AUGUST 7, 2026  ·  2 MINUTE READ

Every daily run is three cuts. Each cut scores up to 100, so a perfect day is 300.

How a cut becomes a number

After you cut, both halves go on the scale. The score compares the lighter half to the heavier one:

precision = lighter รท heavier

Two identical halves give 1.0, which is 100 points. A 60/40 split gives 0.667, which is 67. The scale reads grams, so the number reflects mass, not how straight the line looked.

This is why a cut can look perfect and score 71. A straight line through a lopsided object produces lopsided halves.

What the bands mean

ScoreWhat happened
90 to 100You found the mass centre, not the visual centre
75 to 89A good line on a shape that hid its weight
50 to 74Cut on eye alone, no correction for the fat side
Under 50The object had a hidden core, or the mode caught you out

Most people land in the 60s and 70s in their first week. Getting into the 80s is a matter of aiming fat rather than aiming middle.

Why the last twenty points are the hard ones

Going from 200 to 260 is mostly one habit: stop cutting where the object looks halved and start cutting toward the wider end.

Going from 260 to 290 means judging mass distribution rather than width, on an object you have never seen before, in a mode that might be reversing your controls or hiding the shape. There is no general rule left to learn. It is per-object judgment, and the scale is unforgiving because it reports grams rather than intent.

Both halves, weighed. The gap is the score.

The modes change the problem, not the maths

The cut mode rotates daily. Quick Draw puts a clock on you, Blindfold hides the shape before you cut, Mirror Duel reverses your input. Scoring never changes: lighter over heavier, out of 100.

That means a low score in a hard mode is not the game being unfair. It is the same measurement taken under worse conditions.

Reading your own history

Watch the spread across your three cuts rather than the total. Three scores of 80 mean a consistent eye. An 96, 51, 84 means one object beat you, and it is usually the one with a hidden core or an extreme taper.

The archive keeps your past days. Replaying an old day is the cleanest way to test whether a habit actually stuck, because the object is the same and only your judgment changed.

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