| Prompt | Tier you landed |
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0 points
0 metres of depth — nothing logged yet.
The depth zones your score maps to
| Score | Depth | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 m | Every answer rejected — the boat, basically |
| 1–99 | 10–990 m | Surface waters — a few safe picks |
| 100–299 | 1,000–2,990 m | Twilight zone — a solid daily dive |
| 300–499 | 3,000–4,990 m | Midnight zone — strong run with rare finds |
| 500–699 | 5,000–6,990 m | The abyss — rare answers everywhere |
| 700 | 7,000 m | The trench floor — a perfect run, one in a Krillion |
Every tier is fixed — the full scoring breakdown explains why a rejected answer scores 0, and One in a Krillion covers the 100-point tier. Want to read the pools before you type? Start with how pool sizes work.
A worked example, from a real dive
Say you played "Name an app or program that comes built into Windows or macO…" from Dive #101 — a 1,931-answer pool: three answers everyone thinks of (Plankton, 10 each), two decent mid-shelf picks (Schooler, 30 each), one genuinely uncommon find (Rare, 60), and one answer almost nobody typed (Deep Cut, 85). Punch those tiers into the table above and the math settles instantly: 30 + 60 + 60 + 85 = 235 points — 2,350 metres, solidly in the twilight zone. That's what a "pretty good Tuesday" actually looks like when you stop guessing and start counting.
Now the interesting part. Swap just one of those Planktons for a One in a Krillion and the run jumps 90 points — from 2,350 m to 3,250 m, from twilight into midnight. One rare answer is worth nine safe ones. That asymmetry is the whole reason this calculator exists: it turns "I did okay, I guess" into a number you can chase tomorrow.
The two-minute post-dive routine
- Pull up your recap. After the seventh prompt the game shows each answer with its tier — screenshot it before it scrolls away.
- Enter the tiers here. Seven dropdowns, ten seconds. The depth number is your honest position, not a vibe.
- Compare against yesterday's depth. Players who track depth daily improve roughly twice as fast — not because the number is magic, but because you stop repeating the same safe picks when you can see they're holding you at 1,200 m.
Keep the screenshots in an album if you're the type who likes graphs; the depth zone you live in moves slower than you feel, and the history is the proof.
Reading your zone honestly
Surface waters (under 100): happens to everyone on a brutal dive — five narrow pools in one day is a boat day. Check whether the prompts were genuinely tight before you self-diagnose.
Twilight (100–299): where most players live, most days. The reliable exit is one deliberate Rare-tier answer per dive — you don't need seven, you need one you chose on purpose.
Midnight (300–499): you're already going specific on several prompts. The gap to the abyss is consistency — one lazy Plankton per dive is usually what's holding the number down.
The abyss (500+): rare answers everywhere. At this depth the calculator is just confirming what you already know; the next frontier is the perfect 700.
Questions people ask about the calculator
How do I know which tier each answer hit?
The game stamps the tier on every answer in your post-dive recap — the same six tiers this calculator uses. If you closed the recap too fast, today's dive sheet lists the pool sizes, which tell you how risky each prompt was.
Does the order of my answers matter?
No — the seven dropdowns are interchangeable. Prompt 1 is only first because the game asked it first; a point is a point wherever it lands.
What counts as a good score?
It moves with the day's pools — a 260 on a narrow day can outclass a 400 on a wide one. The honest answer lives in our good-score zones guide, which anchors the benchmarks to real dives instead of round numbers.
Tier math you can do in your head
You don't always need the calculator — the tier values are spaced so a few anchors cover most situations. Seven Planktons is a 70, the floor of "played, at least." Swapping any one Plankton for a Schooler is +20; for a Rare, +50; for a Deep Cut, +75. So a run that feels "two answers better than usual" is, in points, usually forty to a hundred better — the kind of gap you can feel in the zone table but never in your gut.
Two more anchors worth memorizing: 238 is five Planktons plus two Schoolers — the "did everything safely" run. And 595 is seven Deep Cuts, the highest score that contains no 100-point answer at all. Between those two numbers is where almost every dive of your life will land, and knowing the boundaries makes today's number mean something the moment you see it.
What the calculator can't tell you
Honest limits, so you use it for what it's good at: it knows the arithmetic of tiers, but not the story of your dive. It can't tell you that your Rare came from a lucky autocomplete and your Planktons from fatigue — only your own recap memory can. It can't tell you which answers were rejected for fixable reasons; the game stamps rejections, and the troubleshooting guide exists to turn those zeroes back into points. And it can't compare you fairly across days — for that, read the day's pool sizes first. What it does, it does instantly and correctly: it converts seven tiers into one honest depth. The rest of the improvement lives in the reading, not the arithmetic.