Example usage #
Create a 15 minute sprint:
/sprint You and other participants can join:
/join One minute after creating the sprint, time begins.
Now do some writing!
… 15 minutes later …
Enter your word count at the end: (It’s on the honour system)
/words
count:
442 Sprinto will congratulate all the sprinters and show a scoreboard.
Congratulations! You’ve written some words! Start again and write some more!
With a starting word count
/sprint
/join
count:
1000 ... 15 minutes later ...
/words
count:
1442 Here the starting 1000 words are automatically deducted from the final tally, so Sprinto will treat this as 442 words written.
Without slash commands
You can also @Sprinto:@Sprinto#2517 sprint
@Sprinto#2517 join
... 15 minutes later ...@Sprinto#2517 442
Sprinto accepts fairly flexible input, so try commands you think ought to work, or see the docs for more things.
Some variations
Other ways to create a sprint:
/sprint
options:
at :30 for 45 The above will create a 45 minute sprint which starts at the half hour. For example, if it's 2:26pm in your time zone, then it will start at 2:30pm. Don't write the whole time, just write ":30" as Sprinto doesn't know your time zone.
/sprint
options:
until :00 now The above creates a sprint which starts immediately and runs until the end of the hour.
/sprint
options:
for 20 soon This creates a 20 minute sprint, which will start in 2 to 3 minutes. Sprinto will pick a starting time which with 00 seconds.
/sprint
options:
hel iab Sprint for "however long" (a random length of time) "in a bit" (in 2½ to 7½ minutes. Sprinto will pick a nice start time)
/join
count:
1000 Join the sprint with a starting count of 1000 words. These words will be deducted from your final count.
/same Join with sprint with however many words you had last time.
/words
count:
1442 final Give your final word count early (before the sprint ends) so Sprinto (and other participants) won't wait for your count after the sprint ends. You can use this if you need to rush off in the middle of a sprint.
/words
count:
+102 Adding a plus sign means you don't rememeber how many words you said you joined with, but you've written 102 more.
See the docs for many more ways to use Sprinto.