Swift Zwift Tip: Reset Personal Best Power Numbers

Editor’s note (Dec 26, 2022): the method described in this post no longer works. Our hunch is that Zwift is now storing your power PBs on their servers, so deleting them from your device has no effect.

Your personal best power numbers for 5 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, and 20 minutes are stored in Zwift and can be viewed from the menu screen while in game. Occasionally, riders want to reset these numbers for any number of reasons:

  • A temporary calibration problem which bumps their power up incorrectly
  • A new smart trainer or power meter which reads lower/more accurately than a previous setup
  • A friend who “borrows” their Zwift account and puts out higher power numbers
  • Recovering from injury and wanting to show current power levels instead of old PBs

Whatever your reason, we’re here to help. Here’s a quick video explaining how to reset the personal best power numbers in Zwift:

Shane Miller
Shane Miller
aka GPLama. Husband. Internetwork technology expert. Cyclist. Traveller. Bone breaker. Llama enthusiast. Shane has been creating online content for years with race reports, rides, travel, everything Australia. Now days it's mostly bikes and technology as there's been a huge convergence of the two. On the road Shane has won 15 National age group championship titles and 29 State age group championship titles. And if he was to stop breaking indoor trainers, his collection of those would match those numbers too.

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dustin
dustin
5 years ago

why isn’t Zwift displaying my “your best” 5 seconds and 1 minute wattages?

Erik
Erik
5 years ago
Reply to  dustin

I am having almost the same issue. My 5s wattage isn’t showing.

Cat
Cat
5 years ago

my Numbers keep resetting and I don’t want them to I keep loosing my data?

M Holden
M Holden
4 years ago

Can you DQ yourself from a single ride?

Markus
Markus
3 years ago

How can one Reset the total km
i would prefer to measur km per season
thx

Robert van Elst
Robert van Elst
3 years ago

My personal best numbers seem to sometimes randomly reset themselves to previous values (usually a few days after achieving new PBs), which is a bit demoralising.
I have used the same setup (PC/Trainer) for years, only installed the usual regular updates (no full reinstall). Likewise, Zwift seems to suddenly “forget” my progress on a training plan and having me re-roll, which is a bit of a pain as well but that’s obviously not related to PBs

Steve Cambria
Steve Cambria
3 years ago

Thanks for the Editor’s note update on the resetting of power numbers. Been trying to do so for the past week to no avail. Please advise if you hear anything further- Thanks!!!

Minyana NEO
Minyana NEO
3 years ago
Reply to  Steve Cambria

Y yo intentandolo una y otra vez

Dan
Dan
3 years ago
Reply to  Steve Cambria

The Editor’s Note needs to be in BOLD font, to make it stand out more.

Oddrain
Oddrain
3 years ago

I have power figures from a previous wheel on mag drive trainer that was giving nonsense power numbers. After I got a Kickr Core I deleted the CP file to make sure the data was realistic. Now the old data has come back and is complete nonsense. It would be great if Zwift would give us back a mechanism to fix this

m hutchinson
m hutchinson
2 years ago

if this method doesn’t work, is there one that does

Terry
Terry
11 months ago

Have followed the steps 3 times but pbs are not resetting to 0. On windows pc

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