Overview of How Kaggle’s Competitions Work Join the Competition -> Read about the challenge description, accept the Competition Rules and gain access to the competition dataset. Get to Work -> Download the data, build models on it locally or on Kaggle Kernels (our no-setup, customizable Jupyter Notebooks environment with free GPUs) and generate a prediction file. Make a Submission -> Upload your prediction as a submission on Kaggle and receive an accuracy score. Check the Leaderboard -> See how your model ranks against other Kagglers on our leaderboard. Improve Your Score