Flash Flood Warmup difficulty

[avrrobot]

Hello,

Is it intention that Flash Flood Warmup is a 10 while Deluge is a 55 and Flash Flood is even 75?
And if so, why?

[Redford]

What is the meaning of those numbers? (10, 55, 75)
Points per task? If so, from where have you taken them?

[avrrobot]

Theyre from the challenge overview from m!nus, but the difficulties are also used to rank everyone here.
Its the difficultiy of a challenge, from 0 being very easy to 100 being almost unsolvable.

[Redford]

Wow, nice script I haven't seen it before.
Some other tasks are badly rated too (IMO), e.g. "Didactic Scrambled Egg Cipher Warmup" (55) and "Didactic Scrambled Egg Cipher Pre-Warmup" (55) - the second one is in my opinion a way harder.
But it's not a serious problem for me

[michuber]

And if so, why?

What if there's an easy way to solve the warmup?

[avrrobot]

Youre right, as the picture is static there. (I didnt thought of this )
For myself, i just used the code from the previous challenge with 99+ instead of 88+.

[AMindForeverVoyaging]

To be quite honest, the ranking system on hacker.org is rather nonsensical anyway.

Just don't care about it and enjoy the challenges.

[DaymItzJack]

To be quite honest, the ranking system on hacker.org is rather nonsensical anyway.

Just don't care about it and enjoy the challenges.

If we don't have a ranking system, how will we know that we're better than other people? I want to know this information![/sarcasm]

[AMindForeverVoyaging]

I'm not sure what adum was thinking when he implemented the ranking system here, but even good men can go wrong.