Speed up game after every 50 points - ios

I am making a 2D reaction game with sprite-kit and I am having the same problem again. I already asked this question once and had good answers and everything worked finde but now I am stuck again.
Like the title says I want to speed up my game every 50 points, but it just speeds up when I get the right point number like 50, 100, 150.. The problem is that I have combo points and its always some points more. For example from 48 to 51 points, so it never speeds up. How can I speed up the game even its some points more ? I mean from 50 to 100 one speed up and from 100 to 150 and so on. Here is my code so far:
if (points % 10 == 0) {
if (readyToSpeed) {
speed++;
NSLog(#"speed up");
readyToSpeed = NO;
}
}
Thanks for the help ! (code in objective-c please)
EDIT: Works perfectly using both answers combined.

Instead of incrementing your speed you could do it like so:
speed = baseSpeed + (points / 50);
Where baseSpeed is the speed at the start of the game.

Don't worry about the exact 50x multiple points, keep track of the current point "group" via modulo to derive your speed value
cur_speed = points - (points % 50);
e.g. if they're at 203 points, then cur_speed is 203-(203%50) -> 203-3 -> 200. If they suddenly jump to 308 pts because they hit an insane points combo, then the speed becomes 308-(308%50) -> 308-8 -> 300

if you want just between 50-100 and 100-150 do something like this:
If points > 50 && points < 100 {
//speedup code
}else if points > 100 && points < 150 {
//speedup code
} //etc
Update: if you want this to be endless do this:
var speednumber = points/50
speednumber = speednumber-decimal //some code to cut of the decimals
setSpeedTo(speednumber+1) //you got to make a function for this
setSpeedTo(1) will be normal
2 will be from 50-100
3 100-150
Etc.

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