Understanding Mentor Score
The Mentor Score is a measure of your contribution to the Frontend Mentor community. Unlike simply completing challenges, the Mentor Score specifically tracks how much you help other developers by providing valuable feedback on their solutions.
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What is the Mentor Score?
The Mentor Score measures your contribution to the Frontend Mentor community. It reflects both your challenge completions and how much you help other developers through feedback.
How the Mentor Score works
You earn mentor score points through two activities:
Completing challenges
When you submit your first solution to a challenge, you earn points based on the challenge difficulty:
- Newbie (1): 10 points
- Junior (2): 25 points
- Intermediate (3): 50 points
- Advanced (4): 100 points
- Guru (5): 200 points
Points are only awarded for your first completion of each challenge. Submitting additional solutions to the same challenge doesn't earn extra points.
Providing helpful feedback
When you leave feedback on another developer's solution and they mark your comment as helpful, you earn points based on the challenge difficulty:
- Newbie: 3 points
- Junior: 5 points
- Intermediate: 10 points
- Advanced: 15 points
- Guru: 20 points
Providing feedback on harder challenges earns more points, reflecting the greater expertise needed to review complex solutions.
Time periods
Your score is tracked across multiple time periods:
- Weekly - Your contributions for the current week
- Monthly - Your contributions for the current month
- Yearly - Your contributions for the current year
- All-time - Your total contributions since joining
Weekly, monthly, and yearly scores reset at the end of each period, while your all-time score continues to grow.
Progression Levels
Your Mentor Score feeds into a progression level system that reflects both your points and your challenge experience. There are five progression levels:
| Level | Points Required | |-------|----------------| | Level 1 | 10 | | Level 2 | 50 | | Level 3 | 200 | | Level 4 | 600 | | Level 5 | 1,500 |
Your actual level is determined by whichever is lower — your point total or the highest challenge difficulty level you've completed. This means that points alone aren't enough to progress. You must also complete increasingly harder challenges to advance.
For example, if you have 250 points but have only completed Newbie and Junior challenges, your level will be capped at Level 2 regardless of your point total. To reach Level 3, you would need to also complete Intermediate challenges.
Where your Mentor Score appears
Your Mentor Score and progression level are displayed on your profile page. You'll see your Mentor Score (points) in the stats section of your profile, and your progress level both on your avatar and in the Progress tab.
Why reputation matters
Building your Mentor Score comes with several benefits:
Recognition
A high Mentor Score signals to the community that you're an active and helpful member. Other developers can trust that your feedback is likely to be valuable based on your track record.
Unlocking the Talent Profile
Once you reach 150 points, you unlock the ability to create a Talent Profile. This makes you discoverable to employers on the Frontend Mentor Hiring Platform.
Career opportunities
Employers and hiring managers who use Frontend Mentor can see your contribution history. A strong Mentor Score demonstrates soft skills like communication, collaboration, and a willingness to help others—qualities that are highly valued in professional development teams.