The Juggler
How to unlock The Juggler in Cheevos. Switch between tabs 20 times within a single minute. Worth 15 XP.
The story
Partner. Twenty switches. Sixty seconds. Cache counted every one.
Most tab-switching has a rhythm to it. Read, switch, read, switch. Yours did not. Cache tracked the sequence and found no clean path through it, no calm back-and-forth between two tabs. You were bouncing between several, checking one, comparing it to another, doubling back to a third.
He replayed the log more than once. It reads like a pinball machine: fast, glancing contact, one tab to the next to the next, with no obvious destination. That is not a criticism. Cache finds this kind of session genuinely fascinating to watch unfold.
The turn: Cache expected chaos to mean carelessness. Instead, watching the pattern closely, he saw something more like triage. Twenty switches in a minute is what it looks like when someone is juggling several things that all matter at once, and refusing to drop any of them.
The catalog entry
TWENTY TAB SWITCHES IN ONE MINUTE Acquired: Switched between browser tabs 20 times in a single minute. Condition: Active. Possibly frantic. Rarity: Common. Cache's Notes: Twenty switches in sixty seconds. Cache tracked each one. The pattern is nonlinear. You were not following a path. You were bouncing. Checking. Comparing. Re-checking. Cache finds this kind of session interesting to replay. The log looks like a pinball machine.
Spoiler: how to unlock it
This one rewards the kind of session where you have several tabs open and genuinely need all of them.
- Have multiple tabs open at once.
- Switch between them using
Ctrl+Tab(next tab),Ctrl+Shift+Tab(previous tab), clicking tabs directly, orCtrl+1throughCtrl+9to jump to a specific tab position. - Rack up 20 total switches within any single 60-second window. Cheevos watches the timing between switches, not just the count.
Tab switching itself is nearly instant because a background tab's page is usually already loaded and sitting in memory, unless it has been discarded to save resources, in which case the browser silently reloads it when you click back to it. This is what makes rapid-fire comparison shopping, multi-source research, or juggling a group chat alongside a document possible without waiting on each tab to catch up.
Where it fits in the Stash
The Juggler is filed alongside the Stash's other records of fast, nonlinear browsing, the sessions that move sideways instead of forward. For the story of the raccoon who replays every pinball run, read the story.