Hall of Champions
Weekly competition winners across download, upload, and ping categories. Scores are finalised at midnight UTC every Sunday.
No Champions Yet
The first weekly competition is underway. Create an account, run a verified speed test, and you could be the first champion recorded here.
How to Earn a Champion Title
Create a free account
Sign up and verify your email address. Verification is required before test results enter the competition pool.
Run verified speed tests
Every test you complete while logged in is automatically evaluated and checked against our fraud detection system.
Post the highest score by Sunday
The weekly competition runs Monday to Sunday. Only your best eligible result in each category counts.
Earn your place in the Hall
The #1 result in Download, Upload, and Ping each week earns a permanent record here.
Competition Rules
- Verified accounts only — email verification is required
- Results must pass automated fraud and anomaly detection
- Only real user tests count — scripted or emulated tests are disqualified
- One best score per user per category per week
- Decisions by moderators are final
What It Means to Be a Champion
A Hall of Champions entry is a permanent public record of the fastest verified speed test result on Speedtest.now in a given week. These aren't self-reported numbers or marketing claims — every result in this list passed our automated validation pipeline before being entered.
Independently Verified
Every speed test runs directly between your device and one of our distributed test servers. Results are recorded server-side, not reported by the client. There is no way to manually enter or adjust a score.
Fraud Detection Applied
Results are screened for anomalies: implausible speeds for the detected connection type, repeated identical values, test-server proximity manipulation, and patterns consistent with automated tooling. Only clean tests make it to the competition pool.
Real Infrastructure Required
To reach the top of these categories, you need a genuinely fast connection — typically a fibre or cable plan with high contracted speeds and a well-configured local network. Champions tend to be on dedicated gigabit or multi-gigabit residential or business broadband.
Speed Milestones Worth Chasing
Whether you're aiming for the #1 spot or just improving your own connection, these milestones give you a sense of where top-tier performance begins.
Residential gigabit fibre is now available in most urban areas in the US, UK, EU, and East Asia. Multi-gig plans are beginning to appear for premium users.
Symmetric upload is less common than download speed. Achieving 500+ Mbps upload generally requires FTTP or a business broadband plan rather than typical cable.
Sub-3ms ping requires a wired connection, a nearby test server, and extremely low overhead in your local network stack. Achievable in some metro areas with local test nodes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a previous champion win again?
Yes — there's no limit on how many weeks a user can hold a champion title. Each week is an independent competition. Back-to-back wins show up as separate entries in the Hall of Champions table.
What happens if the top result is disqualified after the week ends?
If a winning result is later found to be fraudulent or in violation of competition rules, it is removed and the next eligible result from that week's final leaderboard is promoted. The Hall of Champions is intended to be a trustworthy historical record.
Do champions get any reward or recognition?
Beyond the permanent public record in the Hall of Champions, winning users receive a Champion badge on their profile page. There is no monetary reward — the competition is purely about bragging rights and demonstrating what's possible with world-class internet infrastructure.
Why are there three separate categories?
Download speed, upload speed, and ping measure fundamentally different aspects of a connection. The fastest downloader often has asymmetric cable or DOCSIS broadband with limited upload. Ping champions typically live close to a test server node on very low-latency fibre. Separating categories means each dimension of quality gets recognised independently.