WCA statistics alive again[old OP]

[Swordsman Kirby]

something is wrong here:

longest bf success streak:

István Kocza 8 1:46.46 2:19.39 2:43.66 Oct 2009 - ongoing...

but he isn't mentioned in recent success rate

Recent success rate is calculated from Dec 1, 2008.

 

[Stefan]

Recent success rate is calculated from Dec 1, 2008.

That's right. This is a moving 1-year window.

The reason to have this statistic "recent" rather than all-time is that one shouldn't be forever haunted by bad results early in the career. I thought about different ways of recentness, "last N solves" was an alternative, but I liked the 1-year window best.

 

[rahulkadukar]

A fun thing I just did: I took the Sum of all single ranks statistic and cranked up the "penalty" for not competing in events (the red numbers). Usually it's one more than the number of people ranked in the event, i.e., everybody not really ranked gets ranked right behind the last really ranked person. I tested it with a million instead. The new #1 is the only person staying under a million, meaning he's the *only* person having succeeded in *all* events. Congratulations to the for yet another reason fabulous Mike Hughey!

The only persons missing exactly one event are Clément Gallet (feetsolving) and Henrik Buus Aagaard and Péter Trombitás (both 5x5 blindfolded).

Bence Barat now has the lowest sum of ranks for a person who has completed all events and Erik is now just one 5x5x5 BLD solve away

 

[Mike Hughey]

Cool, there's a category for youngest and oldest Magic solvers. I made another silly list.

I'm very sorry for Rebecca, though - she was 7 years and 5 months old when she had her first solve. Less than 3 months too old to make the list. She certainly would have made the list back then, though, if there had been one - at the time (Chattahoochee 2008), no one on the current youngest list had a Magic solve in competition. Rebecca might have been #1 on the list at the time! (And she was pretty good too - 3.10 average at that competition!)

 

[qqwref]

Geez, I should teach my grandma to solve Magic. The oldest list is just pathetic compared to the 3x3 list.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Geez, I should teach my grandma to solve Magic. The oldest list is just pathetic compared to the 3x3 list.

Extremely true. Perhaps a bunch of people will do that, and we can fix it fairly quickly. I should be at least 20 years from the bottom of that list - it kind of disturbs me to be on it, actually.

 

[joey]

I'm in the list for most countries 14 countries

 

[qqwref]

Hey, why'd most solves in a competition get removed? I understand removing most DNFs, that was silly and just made people DNF on purpose, but most solves was interesting.

 

[Bryan]

I'm in the list for most countries 14 countries

I wonder if you could have a statistics of "most traveled". Someone could travel to all the competitions in the US and have a country count of "1".

Since you can't determine people's home, you would calculated it by taking their first competition, measuring the distance to the next competition, and then to their third.

While this would undercalculate some people (for example the person that drive 8 hours to the same venue 4 times a year and didn't go to any other competition would have "0"), but it would avoid the issue of giving people double-credit (for example, many people who went to Toronto after US Nationals didn't stop home first).

 

[qqwref]

That's a cool idea. Distance traveled between comps would work out pretty nicely, although of course it might undercount people who (say) go to lots of European comps but live on the west or north or whatever of almost all of them. But it won't overcount anyone.

 

[Dene]

I would own up that statistic.