You’re checking your score against someone playing a totally different game on a different difficulty.

Comparison assumes a shared scoreboard, and there is almost never one. You cannot see their starting resources, their help, their setbacks, or what the thing is costing them privately, so you end up comparing your full interior with their visible result. The numbers look comparable because they are both numbers. Very little else lines up underneath.

When you catch yourself measuring, ask what you would need to know for the comparison to be fair. The list gets long quickly, and working through it usually ends the urge. Then go back to what you were actually doing.