Mastery learning: how is your Claude level measured?

This is mastery learning, which means a level is something you qualify for rather than something you accumulate. Every check is per concept, the learning analytics behind your score are shown rather than implied, and time spent counts for nothing.

Two numbers, two questions

Your grinds (#) answer "how much work have I put in?" You earn one ClaudeGrind for every piece of work you complete — a coach turn, a card graded, a note read, a quiz round finished — scaled by how hard that piece of work was. Getting it wrong still counts. A quiz round you failed was still work, and pretending otherwise would punish exactly the people who are pushing at the edge of what they know.

Your score (%) answers "how much of this level do I actually own?" It reads as how far you have come on your current level, and it moves only when you in some way have showed understanding. Colloquially: ClaudeGrinds are effort earned, your ClaudeScore is knowledge conquered.

They are separate on purpose, and neither converts into the other. You can put in a long session and move your score barely at all; you can move it noticeably with one well-reasoned response in a socratic session.

How is a Claude skills assessment scored?

The unit is the check — a single concept, confirmed.

• Every concept in the curriculum has a named slug of its own. When you demonstrate it, the check clears. Tracks are not the same size: some hold more concepts than others, because some parts of this take more ground to cover than others.
• A partial demonstration counts as half a check. You showed something; you did not show all of it.
• Two surfaces clear checks: dialogue with your coach, and quiz rounds — and they count exactly the same, so either one is enough. Cards and notes carry the learning itself, and they help the coach judge what level to pitch at, but they never grade you. See many ways to learn for why we refuse to rank the routes.
• Cleared checks do not evaporate. Your score on a level moves upward only — but the level above always starts from zero, because even if the areas are similar, the questions there are new with more depth and/or complexity.

Your score is simply the share of your current level's checks you have cleared, expressed as a percentage — cleared checks divided by the checks that exist. The badge requirement is shown next to it as a goal, never as the denominator, so every percentage on the site means the same thing. That percentage is the only progress figure we will ever show you, on purpose: a raw count invites you to grind toward a number, and the number was never the point.

How do you qualify for a Claude skill level?

Reaching a level is not an average you can game by mastering two tracks and ignoring four. There are two conditions, and you need both:

• A floor in every single track — no track may be left behind.
• A total across all six — the overall bar, which sits higher than the floor.

The levels on both fluctuate due to the data driven design, so see the below merely for illustrative purposes.

Both columns count a partial as 0.5, per the scoring rule above. A dash means that level carries no per-track floor.

Which is why your page shows you a bottleneck rather than a comfortable average: the track furthest below its floor is the only thing standing between you and the next badge, and it is the useful thing to point at.

The four Claude levels

ClaudeCapable is the first badge you earn — it is not the label you start with. Everyone starts at zero, and Capable is what you have once you have put in enough work to have genuinely earned it. Then ClaudeFluent, ClaudeAdvanced and ClaudeMaster, each with its own floors, its own totals, and questions that get harder rather than merely more numerous.

What never counts as evidence?

• Time spent. Not a factor, not a tiebreaker, not a nudge.
• Sessions completed. Attendance is not evidence.
• Grinds accumulated. A high grind total is a story about your persistence, and we like it — but it is never a level requirement.

It follows current evidence rather than your best day. If a concept stops holding up when it comes back around, that shows — and we would rather tell you something has gone soft than hand you a number that flatters you.

Common questions

What is the difference between grinds and my score? Grinds count the work you have put in, scaled by difficulty, and include work you got wrong. Your score is the percentage of your current level's knowledge requirements you have cleared. Neither converts into the other.

What are the four Claude levels? ClaudeCapable, ClaudeFluent, ClaudeAdvanced and ClaudeMaster. Each is qualified on named per-concept requirements, with a floor in every track and a higher total across all six.

Can I lose progress? Cleared checks do not evaporate, and your score on a level only moves upward. But the record follows current evidence — if a concept stops holding up when it comes back around, that shows.

What the record behind these numbers holds is set out in what personalization actually means.

Start with the coach