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Odd WCA stats/ Stats request Thread

STOCKY7 said:
In multi-BLD, who has gone closest to the 1 hour cut-off, without actually exceeding it?

I have a 58:59 I think (a bit close for comfort!), but I've seen a 21/22 in 59:40.
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Not 1 hour, but Geert Bicler has a 1/2 in exactly 20:00. I was the judge; he put his second cube down and I stopped the stopwatch at exactly 20 minutes.
 
Highest number WCA ID

2014



2013


2012


2011


2010


2009


2008


2007


2006


2005


2004


2003


1982

  • 1 - Everyone (although Jessica Fridrich is listed twice due to nationality change)

Most appearances overall

  1. 460 - WANG
  2. 433 - CHEN
  3. 380 - ZHAN
  4. 153 - CHAN


    • It was worth the hours I spent on this, knowing "WANG" is the most common ID on the WCA...
 
Ollie said:
Sorry if this is a stupid question but is R = Ruby?
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Nope -- R is just R. See: http://www.r-project.org

It's a language common among research statisticians -- it's free and very powerful. For many statistical applications, it's often that you just have to know the "magic word" to do your analysis and everything is done for you.
 
Stefan: I tried running python sum_of_wca_ranks.py and I got an error.

File "sum_of_wca_ranks.py", line 5
<!DOCTYPE html>
^

Granted, I'm on 2.7 but a friend on 3.4 got the same error. I'm on Ubuntu 14.04, he's on Windows 8. When he double clicked it, Command Prompt just flashed and went away.
 
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Who's the fastest person who has not come in first place for 3x3 ever? (Single and average please :D)

What's the fastest average of 5 to have come in as the worst average of 5 in the entire competition?
 
Stefan said:
Congrats :D

But I see Vincent Hartanto Utomo in front of you. Did you forget to mention 5BLD maybe?
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Well, all this brings me to a natural stat request:

For every person there is a maximum N so that this person is #1 in the world when choosing N arbitrary rankings. Of course, there is one person (exactly one, if there is no tie at the top) with N=33 and most people will have N=0.

So, what is the Top X (100?) for this? Stefan?

I know that finding this max N for each person is NP hard so I hope the calculation won't take too long.
 
Ooooh this sum of ranks for random combinations is something I was thinking about and started working on briefly. I was going to create a list of people who are #1 in any combination of events. It was getting a bit too calculatuon heavy in vba/excel though so I'll leave Stefan and his superior programming to do it :)
I would be interested in Sebastien's list as well. I'm finding it hard to predicted how many people there will be...I guess...150?
 
FatBoyXPC said:
Stefan: I tried running python sum_of_wca_ranks.py and I got an error.

File "sum_of_wca_ranks.py", line 5
<!DOCTYPE html>
^

Granted, I'm on 2.7 but a friend on 3.4 got the same error. I'm on Ubuntu 14.04, he's on Windows 8. When he double clicked it, Command Prompt just flashed and went away.
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You have to download the actual file from github (you can click the "raw" button). Is this the page you're trying to run? https://github.com/pochmann/sum-of-wca-ranks/blob/master/sum_of_wca_ranks.py Look at the source, that has lots of HTML wrapping the python source code. No way python's going to be able to deal with that :)
 
Tim Reynolds said:
You have to download the actual file from github (you can click the "raw" button). Is this the page you're trying to run? https://github.com/pochmann/sum-of-wca-ranks/blob/master/sum_of_wca_ranks.py Look at the source, that has lots of HTML wrapping the python source code. No way python's going to be able to deal with that :)
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I made the same mistake at first. I rightclicked on the .py file and downloaded it, thinking that it would be the .py file. Instead it was a HTML-file that includes an HTML representation of the sourcecode. You have to "download the zip".
I got another error after that though that I asked Stefan about last night. I didn't think it was interesting to mention in public, but here it is:

C:\Python34>python.exe sum_of_wca_ranks.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sum_of_wca_ranks.py", line 7, in <module>
from tkinter import *
ImportError: No module named 'tkinter'
 
kinch2002 said:
Ooooh this sum of ranks for random combinations is something I was thinking about and started working on briefly. I was going to create a list of people who are #1 in any combination of events. It was getting a bit too calculatuon heavy in vba/excel though so I'll leave Stefan and his superior programming to do it :)
I would be interested in Sebastien's list as well. I'm finding it hard to predicted how many people there will be...I guess...150?
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I wonder if it would also be possible to state the number of different combinations that each person is #1 at? And how many people are there who are #1 at only one distinct combination of events?
 
AvGalen said:
C:\Python34>python.exe sum_of_wca_ranks.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sum_of_wca_ranks.py", line 7, in <module>
from tkinter import *
ImportError: No module named 'tkinter'
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Interesting. When I first tried to run it, I expected this error. It was quite surprising, that tkinter is preinstalled with python 3.3.
 
Yeah, I saw all the HTML in there and wondered what was going on, but I haven't taken the time to learn python to know if that was allowed. Weird about the HTML being injected thing - I was talking a friend through this and figured not having him unzip might be helpful in skipping a step. Guess I learned that the hard way :D
 
Jakube said:
Interesting. When I first tried to run it, I expected this error. It was quite surprising, that tkinter is preinstalled with python 3.3.
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I ran a change installation and saw an optional component that I hadn't installed (because I only installed what I thought of as "pure python"). Shame on me for not checking earlier. Shame on Stefan for not documenting this dependency (It is always the developers fault, never the user, right?)

The next error that I got was also obvious how to solve (I just had the .py file, not the entire zip that included the .ico)
c:\Python34>python.exe sum_of_wca_ranks.py
downloading export WCA_export499_20141026.tsv.zip ...
preparing data ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sum_of_wca_ranks.py", line 141, in <module>
root.iconbitmap('icon.ico')
File "c:\Python34\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1699, in wm_iconbitmap
return self.tk.call('wm', 'iconbitmap', self._w, bitmap)
_tkinter.TclError: bitmap "icon.ico" not defined

After that, it worked. Quite a nice demo for Python. I am looking forward to seeing the "make me look good" function. I don't think it will improve on my sq1+fmc singles and even in that I am not having the NR :(
 
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