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Scoring: Herdwicks |
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The Herdwicks were the most complex (and interesting) part of the scoring system. Anyone who earned a Cormo - by being the first person to answer a regular question correctly - could also be in line for one or more Herdwicks. What determined the number of Herdwicks (if any) awarded was how many hours there were between the question being asked and the answer being posted. The longer the time, the harder the question was judged to be, and the more Herdwicks there were. After one day, 24 Herdwicks were clocked up. For the second day the rate dropped to one Herdwick per two hours, and for the third day the rate was one Herdwick per four hours, then eight hours, etc. Most questions were answered quite quickly - this was mostly due to the entrants being so damned smart, but also because the panel occasionally threw in a clue, and at that point the Herdwick counter was reset to zero. Each Herdwick is worth one point. |
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Some other interesting time-related factoids: |
| Median answer time: | 60 minutes 6 seconds |
| Shortest answer time: |
Dan Karp, 1 minute 50 seconds (question 94). No doubt Dan actually knew the answer to this one, but it's hard to ignore the fact that this question (otherwise known as question 93 #2) had the answer in its subject line, so was pretty easy |
| Shortest answer time without the answer being in the question: | Gwen Lenker, 2 minutes 8 seconds (question 73) |
| Longest answer time, and therefore the highest number of Herdwicks: | Aaron J Dinkin, 9 days 12 hours 24 minutes (question 30) |
| The nearest miss: | Mark Brader, 27 seconds behind Alec Horgan for question 65 |
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