1. Read current progress
Use the visible in-game value before starting the sample.
Brush Angry Cat Brushing Session Planner
Choose a target, measure your current brushing pace, and estimate a realistic session — the method, the math, and a worked example below, with no guessed game constants.
The short version
A session plan is one division: minutes available × brushes per minute × progress per brush = the meter movement a realistic session can deliver. Both rate inputs come from your own 60-second sample, taken on the cat you intend to brush — the game documents no official rates, so your sample is the honest one. Set the target, play the session, then re-measure and let the next target move with your improving pace.
2. Measure brushing pace
Count progress per brush and brushes per minute during a consistent sample.
3. Estimate the target
Enter those observations in the estimator; treat the result as personal planning, not a guarantee.
Methodology
How the planning math works
Three multiplications and one honesty rule — everything is checkable by hand.
Strokes available
minutes × brushes per minute. Your one-minute stroke tally, extended to the session length you can actually sit. A 30-minute plan at a sampled 34 strokes per minute budgets about 1,020 brushes.
Meter movement
strokes × progress per brush. The stroke budget times the meter movement one brush produces on the sampled cat — 1,020 strokes at 25 per brush projects 25,500 meter points of session output.
The honesty discount
Plan at roughly 80% of the projection. The raw figure assumes your sample pace holds for the whole session; real sessions drift slower. The 20% margin absorbs cats that brush harder than the one you sampled.
Worked example
Planning a 30-minute session
Illustration arithmetic with example inputs — replace every number with your own sample.
You have 30 minutes tonight. Your sample on tonight's cat counted 34 brushes per minute, each moving the meter 25 points.
Raw budget: 30 × 34 = 1,020 strokes, projecting 1,020 × 25 = 25,500 meter points. Apply the honesty discount: plan around 20,000 and treat anything past it as a bonus.
Split it if you switch cats: two cats at half the time each, two samples, two movement figures added together. The plan follows the game's own description — every cat's fur is its own puzzle, so the budget should be per cat, not global.
FAQ
Session-planning questions
What is the difference between this planner and the main calculator?
Direction. The calculator asks how long a goal will take (gap in, minutes out). This planner asks the reverse: given the minutes you actually have and a measured pace, what target is realistic tonight? Same two observations — progress per brush and brushes per minute — opposite question.
How big should a session target be?
Sized to your sampled pace, then discounted for drift. Compute the raw figure at your measured pace, then plan for roughly 80% of it — attention fades, other players take cats, and thicker-fur cats appear. A target you beat 4 weeks out of 5 keeps the improvement loop motivating; a target you never hit just teaches you to ignore the plan.
Do I need the game's official rates to plan?
They would help, but they exist on no public surface as of 2026-10-03 — no stat table, no currency table, nothing on the official page. Your measured pace substitutes cleanly because it is the same quantity the game acts on: meter movement per unit time, observed by the only instrument that matters, which is you.
When should I re-measure my pace?
Three triggers: a new cat or fur (every cat brushes differently, per the official description), a week of layoff (rhythm decays), and any visible game update — the last recorded one was July 16, 2026, and our update watch flags the next. Between triggers, one fresh sample per session is plenty.
What counts as a wasted session?
One with no target and no measurement — you cannot feel improvement you never recorded. Even a five-minute session with a 60-second sample and one target beats an hour of aimless brushing, because the comparison is what compounds.
Keep the loop closed
Plan → play → re-measure → plan again. The progress notes explain why single-variable comparisons keep the loop honest, and the sources page records what the official surfaces do and do not document as of 2026-10-03.