Which are the Best Striiv Challenges?

There are three categories of challenges: Easy (bronze), Medium (silver), and Hard (gold).  You can do a challenge either by waiting until they pop up, or spinning for them.  If you wait until they pop up, their payoff is triple the payoff if you spin.  Each day you can do 8 easy, 4 medium, and 4 hard challenges.

So which ones pay off the most energy points?   It's not necessarily the most difficult ones; the payoffs seem somewhat arbitrary.   Let's take a look at each category.

Easy:  The highest payoffs you can get are from the pop-up challenges:  Climb 25 Stairs for 12,000 energy, or Climb 15 Stairs for 7,200 energy.  You could keep turning off the Striiv and turning it back on hoping one of these will pop up.  If you spin for easy the top payoffs are Run 250 Steps for 5,000 energy or Climb 25 Stairs for 4,000.  So I ignore any pop-up easy challenge that is less than 3,000 points, knowing that I can spin for something better.

Medium:  The highest medium payoffs from spinning are all running challenges.  By the way, running challenges never pop-up so don't expect them.  You can do the Hit (+650) Running in 10 for 7,500 energy or Run 500 Steps for 6,000 energy.  If you are not a runner, you can spin for Do 7 min of activity for 3,000 energy, or Reach (+60) Stairs for 3,000 energy.  These two challenges will pop up at triple value, so you can get up to 9,000 energy for a medium challenge.

Hard:  If you spin, the best hard challenge is Run 5000 steps for 13,200.  However, unless you run more than 10 miles a day it's not really worth it.  Instead, be happy with either Reach (+1800) Steps in 15 for 12,000 or Do 15 min of activity for 12,000.  The theoritical high for a pop-up hard challenge is 36,000, but I've never seen it.  I have seen 18,000 for Reach (+180) Stairs.... that's a lot of stairs!

Want a simple rule?  Accept any pop-up that offers more than 5000 energy.  Towards the end of the day you may have to lower that minimum, or spin, to get them all done.