PolyTrack Track Numbers to Names: All 17 Tracks

Why "PolyTrack Track 9" Does Not Match Any Track in Your Game

If you have searched for a PolyTrack Track 9 world record, a Track 12 time, or a Track 4 shortcut, you have probably hit the same wall everyone else does: open the game, and there is no Track 9 anywhere. You see Summer 1, Winter 2, Desert 3 instead.

Both names are correct. They are simply from two different eras of the game.

Early PolyTrack numbered its official tracks sequentially in the order they were added: Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, and so on. When Kodub expanded the campaign into three themed environments, those tracks were regrouped and renamed by theme. Speedrun leaderboards, older YouTube videos, and years of Reddit threads still use the old numbers, so the two vocabularies now live side by side.

The catch is the part almost nobody explains: the numbers and the names are interleaved, not sequential. Track 1 is Summer 1, but Track 2 is Winter 1. Track 9 is Winter 2, not Summer 9. If you assume the numbering runs Summer 1-7, then Winter, then Desert, every lookup you do will be wrong.

This page is the reference map. Below you will find every official track under both names, the current world record for each, and which ones have a recognised shortcut route.

PolyTrack Track Number to Name Chart

There are 17 official tracks: seven Summer, five Winter, and five Desert. Thirteen of them carry a legacy number. The four newest tracks (Winter 4, Winter 5, Desert 4, Desert 5) were added after the renaming, so they never received a number at all.

The rows in bold are the ones that trip people up most often. Track 2, Track 5 and Track 9 are all Winter tracks despite their low numbers, and Track 7 is a Desert track sitting in the middle of the Summer run.

The same chart, the other direction

Looking up a track you already have open in the game:

• Summer 1 = Track 1 · Summer 2 = Track 3 · Summer 3 = Track 4 · Summer 4 = Track 6 · Summer 5 = Track 8 · Summer 6 = Track 10 · Summer 7 = Track 13
• Winter 1 = Track 2 · Winter 2 = Track 9 · Winter 3 = Track 5 · Winter 4 and Winter 5 = no legacy number
• Desert 1 = Track 7 · Desert 2 = Track 11 · Desert 3 = Track 12 · Desert 4 and Desert 5 = no legacy number

Current World Records for Every Official Track

These are the standing records on the community speedrun leaderboard at the time of writing. Times are for the Normal category, which means no shortcut route.

Records move, so treat these as a snapshot rather than a live scoreboard. The useful part is the shape of the list: Winter 1 at 8.2 seconds is by far the shortest official track, while Summer 5 at nearly 50 seconds is the longest single lap in the campaign. If you are hunting your first sub-world-record-adjacent time, Winter 1 and Summer 2 are where the gap between a good run and a great run is smallest.

Which PolyTrack Tracks Have Shortcuts?

This is the other half of the number confusion. Searches for "PolyTrack Track 4 shortcut" or "Track 9 shortcut" are extremely common, and the honest answer is that only some tracks have a shortcut route worth running.

The speedrun community tracks shortcut runs as a separate category, which is the clearest signal of where real skips exist. Tracks with an established shortcut category and record:

Two things stand out.

Summer 4 (Track 6) is the biggest skip in the game. Cutting a 34.9-second lap down to 15.8 seconds is not a tidier racing line, it is skipping a large portion of the layout outright. If you have ever seen a Summer 4 time that looked impossible, this is why.

Summer 3 (Track 4) is the exception that ends a lot of searches. Its shortcut record is slower than its normal record. In other words, the route exists but is not actually faster in practice. If you came here looking for a Track 4 shortcut, the useful answer is that you are better off perfecting the standard line.

For every other track, including Winter 2 (Track 9), Desert 2 (Track 11), Desert 3 (Track 12) and all four unnumbered newer tracks, there is no established shortcut category. Time on those comes from cleaner cornering and better landings, not from a skip.

If shortcut hunting is what you are after, our air control masterclass covers the mid-air techniques that most skips depend on, since almost every shortcut in PolyTrack involves leaving the track surface and landing somewhere the intended route does not go.

Where to Go Next for Each Track

We have written sector-by-sector speedrun guides for the seven tracks people ask about most. Use the number map above to find yours:

• Track 1 → Summer 1 speedrun guide — the tutorial track, and the best place to learn what a clean lap actually feels like
• Track 3 → Summer 2 speedrun guide — the first real multi-turn challenge
• Track 4 → Summer 3 speedrun guide — where precision starts to matter more than raw speed
• Track 2 → Winter 1 speedrun guide — your introduction to ice grip
• Track 9 → Winter 2 speedrun guide — extended ice sections and surface transitions
• Track 7 → Desert 1 speedrun guide — sand physics and desert jump geometry
• Track 11 → Desert 2 speedrun guide — elevation-and-jump combinations at speed

If you are new to the game entirely, start with the complete beginner's guide and the controls cheatsheet before chasing records.

When You Have Finished the Official Tracks

Seventeen tracks is not a lot once you are running competitive times, which is why most players move to community maps. Every track on our track library is a player-made layout with a working import code, and many of them are built specifically as training tools for the skills the official campaign only touches on.

Three directions worth taking:

• Technical practice. Community technical maps isolate one skill (tight cornering, narrow platforms, elevation control) and repeat it, which the official tracks never do.
• Kacky-style challenge. If Summer 5 felt long, Kacky tracks are a completely different kind of difficulty. Worth understanding before you load one.
• Build your own. Once you know why a corner feels good or bad, the track editor guide walks through making a layout other people actually want to drive, and you can submit it here when it is ready.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is Track 9 in PolyTrack? A: Track 9 is Winter 2. The current world record is 26.727 seconds, held by xtuov. The number is a legacy label from before the campaign was reorganised into Summer, Winter and Desert themes.

Q: What is Track 12 in PolyTrack? A: Track 12 is Desert 3, the fastest of the numbered Desert tracks with a world record of 20.519 seconds by Geor11.

Q: Why does the game show Summer 1 instead of Track 1? A: The official tracks were renamed when the campaign was split into three themed environments. Track 1 became Summer 1. Speedrun leaderboards and older videos kept the original numbers, so both names remain in circulation.

Q: How many official tracks does PolyTrack have? A: Seventeen: seven Summer, five Winter and five Desert. Thirteen have a legacy track number; Winter 4, Winter 5, Desert 4 and Desert 5 were added after the renaming and never had one.

Q: Which PolyTrack track has the biggest shortcut? A: Summer 4, also known as Track 6. The normal-route world record is 34.860 seconds while the shortcut record is 15.817 seconds, a saving of roughly 19 seconds.

Q: Is there a shortcut on Track 4? A: A shortcut route for Summer 3 (Track 4) has been recorded, but its best time of 19.958 seconds is slower than the 19.441-second normal-route record. In practice the standard racing line is faster.

Q: Which official track is the easiest to get a fast time on? A: Winter 1 (Track 2) is the shortest track in the game at just over eight seconds, so a competitive time takes far less practice than the longer Summer tracks. It is also unforgiving, since a single mistake costs a large percentage of an eight-second lap.

What to Read Next

• PolyTrack Complete Beginner's Guide — everything about the game in one place
• PolyTrack Air Control Masterclass — the mid-air physics behind most shortcuts
• PolyTrack Controls & Keyboard Shortcuts — the full input reference
• Browse community track codes — player-made maps once the official 17 run dry