Points now calculated

Post by **adum** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:34 pm

Hacker points are awareded as follows: players are ranked from top to bottom in order of the sum of the squares of the difficulty of challenges solved. (This encourages solving of more difficult challenges.) The top solver gets 200 points, the next (200 * 0.9), the next (200 * 0.9 * 0.9) and so on.

adum

therethinker · Post by **therethinker** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:15 pm

Hooray!

Not to mention, my rank went up 10-fold (212 --> 22)!

gfoot · Post by **gfoot** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:07 pm

The actual rankings (http://www.hacker.org/challenge/top.php) are listed based purely on number of challenges completed - shouldn't they also list your sumsq score, and sort according to that?

Post by **adum** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:13 pm

yeah, they should. i'll change that sometime...

thanks

MHX · Post by **MHX** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:12 pm

Hi,

why do I sometimes lose points? I think that happens when I go back to the challenges without solving a quest, and also when solving a quest being easier than a quest that I solved before. Is that right?

Thanks

Post by **adum** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 1:54 am

you can't lose points normally. rarely i will decrease the difficulty of a challenge, but that's it.