Completing public rooms gets you a certain number of points.
The room's difficulty will increase or decrease the points rewarded respectively. However, "challenge" rooms award more points than "walkthrough" rooms.
Walkthrough Rooms:
Completing "walkthrough" rooms within the same month that they are released will still award you 25% of the available points to your account, but the points will be counted in both the "Monthly" and "All-time" leaderboards. However, completing "walkthrough" rooms not released within the same month will still award you 25% of the available points. The points from this will only go towards your account and the "All-time" leaderboard - not the monthly leaderboard.
Challenge Rooms:
Completing "challenge" rooms within the same month, they are released will award 100% of the points available to your account and both the "Monthly" and "All-time" leaderboards. Completing "challenge" rooms not released in the same month will still grant you 100% of the available points as before; only 25% - not 100% - of the available points will be included in your score on the "Monthly" leaderboard.
Leaderboards:
Monthly:
The monthly leaderboards are calculated from the points given above. Monthly points reset to 0 on the last day of the month at 23:59 GMT.
The #1 ranking at that time will receive a badge on their THM profile and a random security gift.
All-time:
Here is where you fight for your place on the wall of fame. You are ranked with the value of your account points against every TryHackMe user. Your prize is #1.
Summary:
Only the points from "public" rooms will increase your rank and level.
First, to first blood (complete), a box will gain more points than the rest of the users.
Challenge rooms released this month give you 100% of the points (to your all-time and monthly scores).
Old challenge rooms (not released this month) will give you 25% of the points to your monthly score and 100% to your all-time score.
Walkthrough rooms released this month give you 25% of the points to your all-time and monthly scores.
Old Walkthrough rooms (not released this month) only give you 25% of the points to your all-time score, none for your monthly score.
The "Monthly" leaderboard resets to 0 on the last day of the month at 23:59. #1 will receive a badge on their profile and a random security gift.