# Submission Scoring

**URL:** <https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-scoring/1170>\
**Category:** Random Walk of the Penguins\
**Created:** [May 24, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-scoring/1170 "2017-05-24T05:17:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ambarishg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@ambarishg](https://community.drivendata.org/u/ambarishg)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-scoring/1170/1 "2017-05-24T05:17:45Z")

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Hi,

How does Driven Data choose the best submission for the private leader board ?

The reason I ask this is because an individual’s submission which ranks high on the public leader board may not be the highest in the private leader board.

Thanks,  
Ambarish

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**Author:** ![bull](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/community.drivendata.org/bull/32/8_2.png) [@bull](https://community.drivendata.org/u/bull)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 5:45am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submission-scoring/1170/2 "2017-05-24T05:45:02Z")

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Every submission is evaluated against the public and private leaderboards. A user’s score on the private leaderboard is his/her submission with the _best_ score against the private leaderboard.