# When is an exercise done?

You decide: after how many passes, whether a pass with a mistake counts, and what happens then — mark the exercise as done, or move on to the next key.

## The loop counter

A pass is one full run through the exercise: the whole scale, or the whole progression. The **Loops** counter in the stats row counts the passes you finish without a miss. A mistake sets it back to zero, so the number says how many clean passes you have in a row.

![The practice screen after a clean pass of the C major scale in triads, with the Loops counter at 1 in the stats row.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/done/pass.webp)

## Choose when it counts

The Scales and Progressions tabs in [Preferences](https://pianokitty.com/preferences) each have an **After repeats** section, with separate settings for each tab:

- **After N repeats**: how many passes it takes, for example 5.
- **Only after correct**: ticked, only clean passes in a row count; unticked, every finished pass counts, mistakes or not.
- **Then**: mark the exercise as done, or move on to the next key.

![The After repeats section on the Scales tab: after 5 repeats, only after correct ticked, Then set to Mark as done.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/done/settings.webp)

## Marked as done

With **Mark as done**, the app saves the exercise as completed once you reach the number of passes, as long as your accuracy in that session is at least 99%. You see “Nice! Repeats done — saved as completed.” and can keep playing; nothing interrupts you.

If your accuracy is lower, the app says so, for example “Repeats done — 94%, 99% needed to complete”, and a later clean pass can still complete it. Completed exercises count toward your [badges](https://pianokitty.com/features/badges) and your progress in the [course](https://pianokitty.com/features/course).

## Or move on to the next key

Pick a direction under **Then** instead, and after the set number of passes the exercise moves to the next key: round the circle of fifths either way, or chromatically up or down. That is how you practice something [in all twelve keys](https://pianokitty.com/features/all-keys).

## Set when it counts

- Try it: [C major, five clean passes](https://pianokitty.com/app?subject=scales&key=C&mode=major&voicing=triads&seq=inOrder&safn=5): Then it is marked as done.
- Try it: [ii–V–I, three passes a key](https://pianokitty.com/app?subject=progressions&prog=ii,V,I&key=C&seq=inOrder&advrep=true&advrepn=3&advrepd=cofCW): Then on round the circle of fifths.
- Try it: [The After repeats settings](https://pianokitty.com/preferences): On the Scales and Progressions tabs.

Related: [“Now practice it in all twelve keys”](https://pianokitty.com/features/all-keys.md), [Play it in any key](https://pianokitty.com/features/any-key.md), [Play each chord three times](https://pianokitty.com/features/repeat.md)

Source: https://pianokitty.com/features/done