1500 Trailhead Badges

I’ve reached the milestone of 1500 Trailhead badges. This should represent the half way point to the next major milestone of 3xAll Star Ranger. But as we’ll see I’m not quite there yet and it’s looking like reaching that milestone will be a bit harder than the first 2 All Star Ranger ranks was.

So, what’s the issue. Well as you can see I’ve overshot the 1500 badges slightly - I’m at 1504. However to be half way to 3xAll Star I’d need to be at 750,000 points. But I’m slightly under 740,000. Somewhere around 1400 badges I reached an inflection point. Up to there I was consistently above the 500 points per badge average required to keep track with the ranking system. However as I’ve completed so many badges on Trailhead now I am finding it harder to find badge I am interested in completing that score 500 points or above.

This is compounded by the fact that most new badges are worth under 500 badges. Let’s take a look at the last 10 new badges (which I’m working through completing)

Out of these badges only 1 is worth over 500 points. They average 310 points only. Not nearly enough to keep that all important 500 point average. I currently expect I’ll need to get to over 1900 badges to actually reach the required 900,000 points for 3xAll Star. Which is the vast majority of the remaining badges available in Trailhead today!