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debmohanty
   
Country : India | We have seen the last LMI test of 2011. In next few days, we will be posting some statistics about LMI tests in 2011. There are certainly many interesting numbers.
As usual, we welcome any idea related to this. You can either post here or send me an PM, and we'll see if we have the required information in the database.
Please note that most of the information will be presented as images; so they won't be translatable, but I hope they don't need to be. |
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debmohanty
Country : India |
To start with, here is the summary.
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2011-12-27 8:18 PM Hmmmm, does that mean I was first to report all broken puzzles? |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Para - 2011-12-27 8:18 PM
Hmmmm, does that mean I was first to report all broken puzzles?
Interestingly, yes.
May be I should ask you to take test always as the first player  |
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2011-12-28 10:32 AM Looking at those statistics, it seems to be a wrong notion that sudoku is more popular than puzzles!
12 Players have participated in 'all tests'. It will be interesting to know about 'The Perfect Dozen' :-)
Edited by Rohan Rao 2011-12-28 10:35 AM
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debmohanty
Country : India | Rohan Rao - 2011-12-28 10:32 AM
Looking at those statistics, it seems to be a wrong notion that sudoku is more popular than puzzles!
Are you referring to "total number of unique players"?
In that case, as Akash would point out, we had more puzzle tests including a screen test which had tons of players. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | Rohan Rao - 2011-12-28 10:32 AM
12 Players have participated in 'all tests'. It will be interesting to know about 'The Perfect Dozen' :-)
Here are they (in alphabetical order )
aldentea
deu
hayam
Kota
Nikola
nyuta
Rohan Rao
sknight
skrzypl1
S_Aoki
volxa
yureklis
(Note that 7 of them are from Japan )
Here are the 8 players, who missed just one test out of 31.
HuDu (Nikoli Selection 2011 )
mackokajka (Nikoli Selection 2011 )
motris (Best of LMI Puzzle Tests )
rob (Tapa Variations Contest - VI )
snakeeyes (Magic Cube )
sugitakukun (Melon's Puzzle Zoo )
tamz29 (Puzzle Hybrids )
zorko (Forsmarts 3² Anniversary ) Edited by debmohanty 2011-12-28 10:57 AM
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debmohanty
Country : India | Here is the breakup list for Sudoku tests / Puzzle tests
31 players participated in all Sudoku tests. Alphabetically they are
17 players participated in all monthly puzzle tests. Alphabetically they are |
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Administrator
Country : India |
More information on similar lines - Number of Players Vs Number Tests
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Country : India |
Breakup for Sudoku and puzzle tests
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Country : India | What is common in these 3 graphs : Close to 55% of the players participated in just 1 or 2 tests, and didn't participate again. It will be interesting to understand if we should do something about it. |
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Valezius
Posts: 66
Country : Hungary | I see there are at least 392 active member (who participated on at least 4 test), and there are 171 very active member (10+ tests).
In my opinion these numbers are really respectable.
Congratulation.
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motris
Posts: 199
Country : United States | motris posted @ 2011-12-29 1:29 AM Well, I think the biggest factor regarding participation rates is online solving ability. My guess is a lot of the single occurrence puzzle players are from the Screen Test (only paperless Puzzle test), and a lot of the lower occurrence Sudoku players are specifically from the tests that had online solving option. Not everyone has a printer. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | There are certainly lot of players who participated only in the Screen Test, but it is not that high.
I'm breaking up the 304 number of players who played just one test. Here is the break up by the "Only Test"
(This is to be read as, for example, 11 players participated in Twist, and didn't participate in any other puzzle test )
Similar break up for Sudoku tests as well.
So, my 55% number is certainly not correct. We can ignore Screen Test and April Sudoku test. We can also ignore the two "Best of" tests since they were the last tests of the year. |
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debmohanty
Country : India | #of Paper Solvers / #of Online Solvers in Sudoku tests
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | Well I think we can consider some of the participants in the 2 Best of tests as newcomers who might stay on. :) I personally feel its due to the tough difficulty mainly, as I think that most of the 1-test participants are Indians(correct me if I'm wrong.) Considering the difficulty of the National Finals, LMI tests are way more difficult. I don't really know an apt solution to that though. Probably request the authors to do some easy puzzles for an added first-timer version. |
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Country : India | prasanna16391 - 2011-12-29 1:04 PM
Well I think we can consider some of the participants in the 2 Best of tests as newcomers who might stay on. :) I personally feel its due to the tough difficulty mainly, as I think that most of the 1-test participants are Indians(correct me if I'm wrong.) Considering the difficulty of the National Finals, LMI tests are way more difficult. I don't really know an apt solution to that though. Probably request the authors to do some easy puzzles for an added first-timer version.
The numbers suggest so. Here is the break up of 1-test participants (sudoku or puzzle ) by countries.
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | Serbia's 7 might be mostly due to the last two Championship tests. They may continue participating now. Lets hope so. For India at least, based on some friends' reactions, I think its because they come, give the test, get a zero score or something just a bit more, see the rest of the scores and get discouraged. Maybe we should have a stat for everyone's first puzzle/sudoku tests up to show them that a lot of the top players started off bad too :P |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | I would be interested in a stat like this: "Amongst those who have submitted more than 100 answers, who are the ones with highest % of correct answer submissions" for puzzle tests, and for sudoku tests. Probably, we can exclude tests like Screen test here. |
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Country : India | rakesh_rai - 2011-12-29 5:53 PM
I would be interested in a stat like this: "Amongst those who have submitted more than 100 answers, who are the ones with highest % of correct answer submissions" for puzzle tests, and for sudoku tests. Probably, we can exclude tests like Screen test here.
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Country : India | Not sure if Screen Test should have been excluded. ByronosaurusRex has the most correct submission percentage and interestingly, he was the only player to have all puzzles correct in ST2. |
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2011-12-29 9:38 PM Gotroch! 
Also, surprisingly, Serkan appears only in least % for both together.
Btw, just wanted to know what is my %s?
EDIT:Graphs are re-created. Edited by Rohan Rao 2011-12-30 10:50 AM
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Country : India | Rohan Rao - 2011-12-29 9:38 PM
Btw, just wanted to know what is my %s?
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Country : India | Rohan Rao - 2011-12-29 9:38 PM
Gotroch!
Also, surprisingly, Serkan appears only in least % for both together.
Something wrong with the numbers. I'll paste the correct numbers later. |
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vopani
Posts: 739
Country : India | vopani posted @ 2011-12-29 10:16 PM Administrator - 2011-12-29 10:10 PM
Rohan Rao - 2011-12-29 9:38 PM
Gotroch!
Also, surprisingly, Serkan appears only in least % for both together.
Something wrong with the numbers. I'll paste the correct numbers later.
It need not be wrong if Serkan has <75 submissions in any one of puzzle/sudoku. |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | Is it too much to ask about my %s too then?  Edited by prasanna16391 2011-12-29 10:16 PM
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Country : India | Graphs are uploaded again.
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Country : India | prasanna16391 - 2011-12-29 10:16 PM
Is it too much to ask about my %s too then? 
You could be leading the right side table next year if you continue like this |
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Para
Posts: 315
Country : The Netherlands | Para posted @ 2011-12-30 5:18 AM debmohanty - 2011-12-27 8:22 PM
Para - 2011-12-27 8:18 PM
Hmmmm, does that mean I was first to report all broken puzzles?
Interestingly, yes.
May be I should ask you to take test always as the first player
I doubt I'd notice them all. I mean I missed one of them while solving and only found out when I realised my answer key was wrong (all my deductions had been correct, it just lead to a problem at the end in a rule I hadn't been using to finish off the puzzle ). I also still have a few puzzles I haven't managed to solve (yet ). |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | Administrator - 2011-12-30 5:14 AM
prasanna16391 - 2011-12-29 10:16 PM
Is it too much to ask about my %s too then?
You could be leading the right side table next year if you continue like this
hehe luckily I've almost never got something I solved as wrong in either the Nationals or the WCs. I guess its more to do with online submissions, without a printer it can get pretty confusing  |
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rakesh_rai
Posts: 774
Country : India | Thanks Deb... those numbers are quite interesting.
Could we have an India list also with a lesser number constraint. |
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BohemianCoast
Posts: 16
Country : United Kingdom | I wouldn't worry about people participating once or twice and going away. First of all, there are lots of fun things you can do on this site that aren't participating in the timed tests -- like grabbing puzzle sets to go and do at leisure. My kids like the easier puzzles from the sets, but they'd hate the stress and perceived lack of success of the timed tests. You might want to consider whether you have regular visitors who aren't participating in the timed tests.
But also, the tests are really *very difficult*. I'm a pretty experienced puzzler and, with the exception of the Screen Test (which played to my strengths), I'm consistently coming about 3/4 of the way down the field. Lots of people would find that discouraging and go find an easier site. But that's actually the unique thing about this site so you wouldn't want to get rid of it.
You might want to think about occasionally having a set of easier puzzles for novices/kids. Or not; there's plenty of other stuff out there. |
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tamz29
Posts: 225
Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2011-12-30 7:46 PM 2nd most incorrect submission percentage... yay?
I remembered rushing my assignment and miscalculating the time I have left to play Puzzle Hybrids and ended up missing it.
Was a shame because Bram's puzzles are really good. Kudos to the Perfect Dozen - you're truly a fan of puzzles!
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Country : India | rakesh_rai - 2011-12-30 2:02 PM
Thanks Deb... those numbers are quite interesting.
Could we have an India list also with a lesser number constraint.
I didn't add any filters. Just took top 10 submissions from India, and sorted by the %age correctness.
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | Tejal makes 2 extremes :P I'm equally bad at both. At least there's uniformity. |
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neerajmehrotra
Posts: 329
Country : India | Really interesting statistics.....
I am happy to find my name here amongst top Indians......
Edited by neerajmehrotra 2011-12-30 10:40 PM
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Country : India | tamz29 - 2011-12-30 7:46 PM
2nd most incorrect submission percentage... yay?
I can also confirm that most number of incorrect submissions are from you (40 ). I'm not going to put a table for that.
Moving on to the next category, here is some puzzle related stats. The first one is easy to find out from the tests' score page.
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Country : India | Most 10 stars ratings received by puzzles (Minimum 5 10-Star ratings )
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Country : India | Most 10 stars ratings received by sudokus (Minimum 5 10-Star ratings )
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Country : India | Some more stats based on ratings
Here is the list of players who rate most frequently
List of top 3 tests just based on average of puzzle ratings
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Valezius
Posts: 66
Country : Hungary | Administrator - 2011-12-29 1:50 PM
The numbers suggest so. Here is the break up of 1-test participants (sudoku or puzzle ) by countries.
Can we see a full nationality list about the 1041 unique players? |
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utkaarsh
Posts: 89
Country : India | Yipee I topped a list
But wait isnt it the wrong one  
So for 2012, less of mistakes is my aim !! Edited by utkaarsh 2012-01-02 2:34 AM
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Country : India | Valezius - 2012-01-02 1:21 AM
Can we see a full nationality list about the 1041 unique players?
Here we go
Please note : We don't have a drop down for filling countries. So some of the names below could be duplicates. Please post here if you see any.
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Country : India | A related graph - most from any country for any test.
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debmohanty
Country : India | Administrator - 2011-12-30 5:06 AM
utkaarsh - 2012-01-02 2:32 AM
Yipee I topped a list
But wait isnt it the wrong one
So for 2012, less of mistakes is my aim !!
What happpened to your goal Utkaarsh? |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | debmohanty - 2012-06-30 6:15 PM
What happpened to your goal Utkaarsh?
That goal was in itself a wrong submission.
Yay, I'm not on the wrong list! One step forward to the right list.
Just realized thats the same list as the one at the top of the page O.o oops. Now I'm confused. Edited by prasanna16391 2012-06-30 6:35 PM
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utkaarsh
Posts: 89
Country : India | Thanks PS for rubbing it in !!
i sincerely hope my mistakes take a time out during ISC !! |
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prasanna16391
Posts: 1801
Country : India | utkaarsh - 2012-07-01 12:41 AM
Thanks PS for rubbing it in !!
i sincerely hope my mistakes take a time out during ISC !!
I'm in the same boat mate :P I correct most of my errors, I solve almost everything twice :D |
LMI Tests 2011 - Some Statistics
