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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

Hooray!

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

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?

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

thanks

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

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