Are they cheating?

Mattz

The player ahead of me on Sams sweet streak was at 225 then they suddenly jumped to 431.

How can that happen?

Anyone else seen this happen?

uptodate

I also saw such a strange thing

ctsnow

I think that the server syncs up and updates.

Xxander

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/391153/are-they-cheating

Hello and welcome to the Community!

I can find a decent topic. If i'm correct, when you get a streak, you get 25 points for the ranking. So if you win 8 levels you jump 200 point in the general competition. And as @ctsno said: i could take a while for the server syncs up.

So in my vision, this is very well possible and no cheating.