When you begin a new project you get a score (position climbed) which is the absolute value of your position on day 1 is subtracted from 0 (as your position on day 1 minus 1).
This is not a correct way of showing the progress of a person. It should be the lowest position on day of entry minus your position at the end of day 1.

e.g. Project X has 10.000 participants. I start with it and get enough points to end up at position 9.995 after day one.
As the software sees it now. I have climbed 9.995 places.
As I see it myself, I have only climbed 5.

You can check the situation for any one starting a new project (I started at Gerasim and Optima today to make it easy for you)