Best Time to Post: free game to schedule posts by time zone

What is Best Time to Post?

Ten made-up audience charts show how many of your followers are online at each hour of the day. Find the peak, convert a chart from your followers' time zone into yours, spot the slot they'd sleep through, and finally split a post between two cities. Every answer is computed from the chart on screen.

Best Time to Post is a free game about timing. Each round shows a made-up audience chart: 24 bars, one per hour, showing how many of your followers are online. You pick the time slot that reaches them best, from four options.

It starts simple, with a chart in your own time. Then the charts switch to your followers' city, a few hours ahead of or behind you, so you have to convert before you schedule. Next you spot the slot most of them would sleep through, and the last rounds split your audience between two cities, where the best time is a compromise. Every answer is worked out from the chart.

At a glance

Category

Social Media

Difficulty

Easy

Play time

2–3 min

Price

Free, in your browser, sign-up optional

How to play

Read the chart

Each bar is one hour. The taller the bar, the more of your followers are online.

Check whose time it is

Some charts are in your followers' time. If they're 3 hours behind you, add 3 to get your time.

Pick a slot

Tap a time or press 1 to 4. The last charts split followers between two cities: weigh each group by its share.

Score

100 per right slot, +10 per right answer in a row (up to +50). A wrong slot costs one of 3 lives.

Scoring

Each right time slot scores 100 points, plus 10 for every right answer in a row before it (up to 50).

A wrong slot costs one of your 3 lives. A run is 10 charts, from finding the peak to splitting a post between two cities.

What it trains

Reading activity charts

Finding when most of your followers are online.

Time zones

Converting a chart in your followers' time into your own before scheduling.

Split audiences

Weighing two groups by their share to find the best compromise slot.

Strategy and tips

Find the tallest bar

The peak is when most followers are online. Posting then gives your post the best start.

Read the chart's time zone

"Their time" and "your time" can be hours apart. Scheduling tools usually work in your own time.

Ahead means subtract

If followers are 5 hours ahead of you, their 21:00 is your 16:00.

Weigh split audiences

With 60% here and 40% abroad, multiply each group's bar by its share and add them up.

Test your own data

Every audience is different. Charts like these come from your own insights page, and they change over time.

Why play Best Time to Post?

A great post published while your audience sleeps starts with almost no one seeing it. Reading an activity chart and converting time zones are small skills that make every post work harder, and they matter more as audiences spread across countries.

Frequently asked questions