Thanks for playing!
It sounds like you hit R, making the ball restart at the beginning of the level, but I guess it could be some other bug too. It felt kind of scary to depend on physics simulation for gameplay to be honest.
I think the leaderboard is spreading in GWJ! I saw it first in GMTK23 I think, and used it for GWJ59, 60 and 61. Always forget to credit: http://dreamlo.com/