Maybe I'm gettin' the wrong jist here but it seems to me that OP's objective was to set a high score as was mentioned in the original post. Yall's gonna have to forgive me if I'm misguided but...
I just shrug it off. Water off a duck's back as they say. But some people have this need to hold on to stuff and let it bother them for eons. It's more efficient to brush it aside.