personal bests

Your top performances

Personal bests are an individual's best performances in a particular activity, especially athletic events with measurable outcomes: She set three personal bests at the track meet.

The term emphasizes improvement against one's own record rather than competition with others.

Often abbreviated PB: I'm hoping to beat my PB in the marathon.

achievement

record

Preserved account or achievement

triumph · peak · pinnacle · success · goal · improvement · progress · excellence · feat · fulfillment

athletics

training

Developing abilities through practice

fitness · pacing · technique · form · split · repetition · workout · regimen · discipline · dedication

measurement

benchmark

Standard for comparison

gauge · yardstick · criterion · reference · marker · threshold · comparison · tracking · improvement · target

competition

leaderboard

Ranked list of competitors

podium · championship · tournament · race · event · qualifier · finals · opponent · rivalry · victory

Categories
Opposites
performance level

personal bestsfailures

Unsuccessful attempts or outcomes

disappointments · setbacks · off days

record ownership

personal bestsworld records

Documented supreme human achievements

national records

temporal direction

personal bestsstarting points

Where something originates

baselines

Family

best, personal, personality, persons, personally, impersonal, personable, person's, personhood

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