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Educating Gen Z Broadly


chess.com, and how it succeeded in educating gen z

Gen Z understands competitive gameplay. Chess should be a nerdy game, however chess.com made it cool by adding competitive tracking.

  1. Where are you relative to other people?
  2. Where are you relative to yourself?

where are you relative to other people?

Chess.com answers this question with the chess.com leaderboard.

https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/rapid

Chess.com makes it clear where your rating puts you relative to other people.

where are you relative to yourself?

Chess.com answers this with the chess.com stats.

by giving you statistics, chess.com makes it addictive for you to constantly try to get better at the game and 1 up yourself.

Trying to do the same for math

https://mentalmath.io

A leaderboard for timed performance in multiplication (1 digit x 1 digit)

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