# Ramping up \<something\>: how do I set a goal which is not a straight line?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ramping-up-something-how-do-i-set-a-goal-which-is-not-a-straight-line/4037>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [July 1, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ramping-up-something-how-do-i-set-a-goal-which-is-not-a-straight-line/4037 "2018-07-01T11:17:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![dimrub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@dimrub](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dimrub)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ramping-up-something-how-do-i-set-a-goal-which-is-not-a-straight-line/4037/1 "2018-07-01T11:17:17Z")

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Hi Beeminder folks!

I would like to be able to set up a goal that is not “do a given amount of X per unit of time”, but rather “do more and more of X as the time goes by”, such as, “ramp up my pull-ups to 15 per set till EOY”. This sounds like a common enough thing, yet I wasn’t able to find a way to achieve that. Am I missing something?

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**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ramping-up-something-how-do-i-set-a-goal-which-is-not-a-straight-line/4037/2 "2018-07-01T14:50:57Z")

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Does this visual road editor help? [http://road.glitch.me/login](http://road.glitch.me/login)

Adam

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**Author:** ![dimrub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@dimrub](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dimrub)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ramping-up-something-how-do-i-set-a-goal-which-is-not-a-straight-line/4037/3 "2018-07-01T16:46:51Z")

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I’m not sure it does. It still only allows me to define the road as a straight line, whereas I want it to curve upwards, to reflect not constant, but ever rising velocity. Or am I missing something again?

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**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ramping-up-something-how-do-i-set-a-goal-which-is-not-a-straight-line/4037/4 "2018-07-01T17:31:40Z")

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Maybe, maybe not. I have a weekly review where I adjust rates and safety buffers on my goals. I don’t know how a goal that adjusted its own rate everyday would help me, but there are a lot of different kinds of people 🙂 to

I suspect I dont quite get what you’re asking.

If you preloaded the road editor to have an increasing slope everyday, beyond being tedious and non-automatic :), is that different than what you’re looking for?

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**Author:** ![dimrub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@dimrub](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dimrub)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ramping-up-something-how-do-i-set-a-goal-which-is-not-a-straight-line/4037/5 "2018-07-01T17:38:11Z")

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The tedious part is the key here. What I would have liked is to say something like “Increase the amount of pull ups I do daily by 1 every other week, up to a ceiling of 30”, or something along these lines.