Winner Hannes Naudé (Overfitting is a fool's game)

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1000 Node Challenge

These are the best entries submitted before 6PM ET on Monday that are less than 1000 nodes in length.

	score	result	time	date	length	title, author
#1	29323.30	14609600	92.41	Mon 21:49	998	Node tweak, Alan Chalker
#2	29327.40	14613951	91.96	Mon 21:58	998	ahhhh, srach
#3	29329.40	14610278	92.86	Mon 21:56	998	Node tweak, Alan Chalker
#4	29329.70	14614108	92.15	Mon 21:46	998	cXc getting technical, the cyclist
#5	29330.60	14617501	91.54	Mon 21:57	996	hurts!, srach
#6	29330.70	14614108	92.25	Mon 21:56	994	A, Mike Russell
#7	29332.40	14616633	91.92	Mon 21:41	998	cXc3, the cyclist
#8	29334.20	14613886	92.63	Mon 21:41	998	cXc2, the cyclist
#9	29335.10	14614112	92.67	Mon 21:57	998	uhhhh, srach
#10	29335.20	14613951	92.72	Mon 21:39	998	shorty cyclist weird 1 254, the cyclist
#11	29335.60	14613886	92.77	Mon 21:57	998	the score, srach
#12	29338.00	14614112	92.94	Mon 21:50	998	Node tweak, Alan Chalker
#13	29338.40	14614112	92.98	Mon 21:50	998	300 --> 999, the cyclist
#14	29339.50	14614112	93.08	Mon 21:33	998	cXc, the cyclist
#15	29340.20	14616633	92.68	Mon 21:59	998	uh3, the cyclist
#16	29342.80	14617501	92.76	Mon 21:49	996	Why transpose twice, cyclist?, the cyclist
#17	29343.50	14616633	92.98	Mon 21:57	998	..., srach
#18	29348.40	14617501	93.27	Mon 20:56	998	shorter X, srach
#19	29358.80	14614108	94.69	Mon 21:57	998	uhhh, srach
#20	29360.20	14630050	92.01	Mon 21:48	998	Node tweak, Alan Chalker
#21	29362.90	14622832	93.61	Mon 21:51	998	cXc4, the cyclist
#22	29370.70	14630258	92.98	Mon 21:09	998	shorter XI, srach
#23	29370.80	14627321	93.51	Mon 21:32	998	shorty cyclist XI, the cyclist
#24	29377.50	14632120	93.26	Mon 21:52	998	cXc5, the cyclist
#25	29384.70	14644734	91.51	Mon 21:18	998	A, Mike Russell

Saturday Leap

This listing shows how much each entry that took the lead on Saturday improved on the previous top score.

change	time	title, author
123.9000	00:41	filter adjusting 03, Alex P.
71.3000	09:33	Pori clones 1, Abhisek Ukil
35.2000	14:40	Longer is Better but also boring, Mike Russell
29.4000	14:04	VerticalCat2, Sergey Y.
19.4000	11:18	PORI BEST 12, Abhisek Ukil
17.7000	13:10	PORI BEST 30.1.12, Abhisek Ukil
15.9000	10:36	PORI BEST 9, Abhisek Ukil
14.5000	14:53	Restore Clarity to Images using Signal Processing, Mike Russell
12.6000	10:36	PORI BEST 8, Abhisek Ukil
12.6000	15:46	less nodes V, srach
11.4000	04:41	Tall Glass of Water, David Jones
10.2000	00:55	filter adjusting 07, Alex P.
9.5000	15:40	less nodes? IV, srach
9.0000	18:57	More organization in the code would be nice, Mike Russell
8.0000	18:54	Optimizer 5.2, Amitabh Verma
7.6000	01:13	less filter, Alex P.
7.4000	23:03	mytweek8, Gwendolyn Fish
6.4000	11:46	splitt03, Alex P.
6.1000	15:46	less nodes VI, srach
5.7000	19:42	Which one v1.2, Amitabh Verma
5.4000	13:18	PORI BEST 30.1.12.1, srach
5.2000	03:22	Optima 2.1.0.1, David Jones
4.9000	01:56	Uncomplex 3.0, Amitabh Verma
4.2000	02:06	Uncomplex 4.0, Amitabh Verma
4.0000	09:41	(e>=20 & e<=25)\| (e>33 & e<37) \| (e>=100, Abhisek Ukil
4.0000	19:38	Which one v1.1, Amitabh Verma
3.8000	19:56	Gotta install a stereo, Amitabh Verma
3.2000	13:30	PORI BEST 30.1.12.1.1, Abhisek Ukil
2.9000	14:09	VertivalCat4, Sergey Y.
2.3000	14:16	VerticalCat6, Sergey Y.
1.8000	00:15	edge=data; jjii, Alex P.
1.8000	01:33	fct tst done, Alex P.
1.8000	01:38	Uncomplex 2.0, Amitabh Verma
1.4000	05:47	Triplets, David Jones
1.3000	01:24	filter adjusting 14, Alex P.
1.3000	09:20	mixture once more, sn0202
1.0000	18:52	Optimizer 5.0, Amitabh Verma
0.9000	13:48	Pori New 1, Abhisek Ukil
0.9000	16:20	moving out VII, srach
0.8000	05:21	Trio, David Jones
0.6000	14:20	Lawn Care, Mike Russell
0.6000	23:13	bed is calling, Gwendolyn Fish
0.4000	03:13	Optima 2.1, David Jones
0.3000	15:11	Pori ans 3 l, srach
0.3000	15:38	less nodes?, srach
0.2000	11:00	PORI BEST 9 cyclified, the cyclist
0.2000	11:59	PORI BEST 30, Abhisek Ukil
0.2000	15:20	*linear cycler, the cyclist
0.2000	16:11	moving out V, srach
0.2000	19:50	Which one v1.3, Amitabh Verma
0.1000	11:18	PORI BEST 9 cyclified III, the cyclist
0.1000	14:08	Pori Cat2, Abhisek Ukil
0.1000	14:58	Pori ans 3, Abhisek Ukil
0.1000	17:04	Pori leaps 8-, Abhisek Ukil
0.1000	00:38	filter adjusting 01, Alex P.
0.1000	02:54	Optimizer 2.1, Amitabh Verma
0.1000	12:29	PORI BEST 30.1, srach
0.1000	14:25	Lawn Care m, srach
0.1000	15:59	One less, three times, the cyclist
0.1000	19:34	Which one v1.0, Amitabh Verma
0.1000	22:09	more light, Gwendolyn Fish

Best Per Phase

The top 25 contestant's best entry in each phase.

Top contestants during darkness

	contestant	date	score	result	time
1	Jan Langer	Thu 12:11	32291	16085741 (cyc: 33, node: 1214)	92
2	Robert Macrae	Thu 14:27	33000	16499521 (cyc: 9, node: 702)	35
3	Nicholas Howe	Wed 20:25	33058	16528740 (cyc: 9, node: 488)	22
4	Alfonso Nieto-Castanon	Thu 08:35	33224	16611546 (cyc: 6, node: 476)	35
5	Cobus Potgieter	Thu 15:02	34283	17131977 (cyc: 10, node: 1251)	75
6	Otakar	Thu 14:37	34422	17209627 (cyc: 8, node: 791)	54
7	Gerbert Myburgh	Thu 15:32	34507	17236541 (cyc: 42, node: 1902)	26
8	Hannes Naudé	Wed 21:39	34513	17255833 (cyc: 3, node: 429)	49
9	Amin	Thu 15:37	34517	17257951 (cyc: 6, node: 493)	46
10	Greg S	Thu 15:06	34857	17428172 (cyc: 6, node: 821)	24
11	lcome	Wed 23:22	34973	17485898 (cyc: 4, node: 465)	35
12	Seth Kosowsky	Thu 14:27	35022	17507912 (cyc: 15, node: 996)	35
13	DreadNox	Thu 04:08	35055	17527258 (cyc: 3, node: 207)	22
14	Elleke Janssen	Thu 08:02	35078	17537134 (cyc: 13, node: 674)	23
15	Pete Stobbe	Thu 01:52	35147	17573024 (cyc: 3, node: 143)	40
16	David Cook	Thu 15:12	35150	17574640 (cyc: 4, node: 448)	34
17	Darren Rowland	Wed 20:16	35216	17608076 (cyc: 3, node: 147)	20
18	Markus Buehren	Thu 09:39	35231	17612681 (cyc: 14, node: 954)	47
19	Dmitry	Wed 21:16	35245	17622190 (cyc: 3, node: 115)	40
20	Laura	Wed 23:59	35276	17636617 (cyc: 12, node: 393)	29
21	Tim Sharp	Thu 05:49	35294	17646808 (cyc: 3, node: 134)	34
22	Joshua Arnott	Thu 15:56	35417	17708125 (cyc: 2, node: 171)	31
23	Sergey Y.	Thu 13:44	35485	17742455 (cyc: 4, node: 205)	15
24	srach	Thu 15:17	35514	17753017 (cyc: 14, node: 689)	57
25	Fabio null	Wed 22:41	35532	17765593 (cyc: 4, node: 673)	31

Top contestants during twilight

	contestant	date	score	result	time
1	Oliver Woodford	Fri 15:19	29024	14414853 (cyc: 12, node: 1537)	99
2	Robert Macrae	Fri 12:32	29470	14731583 (cyc: 15, node: 1565)	41
3	Alfonso Nieto-Castanon	Fri 10:47	30425	15179119 (cyc: 7, node: 682)	88
4	Nicholas Howe	Fri 10:48	32006	15995628 (cyc: 21, node: 1978)	51
5	Martin Rees	Fri 11:36	32119	16054865 (cyc: 11, node: 1377)	65
6	Jan Langer	Fri 08:25	32183	16033597 (cyc: 41, node: 1326)	90
7	Greg S	Fri 13:06	32204	16101524 (cyc: 10, node: 1222)	23
8	Otakar	Fri 15:03	32890	16411101 (cyc: 45, node: 2203)	80
9	sn0202	Fri 07:30	33636	16817695 (cyc: 6, node: 312)	28
10	Jiri Zemanek	Thu 17:51	33753	16876279 (cyc: 3, node: 608)	32
11	Sergey Y.	Fri 02:19	34030	17014726 (cyc: 8, node: 497)	37
12	Gerbert Myburgh	Thu 22:06	34114	17040970 (cyc: 40, node: 1734)	26
13	lcome	Thu 21:33	34121	17059993 (cyc: 4, node: 728)	35
14	Amin	Thu 16:31	34223	17110939 (cyc: 5, node: 504)	45
15	Mitsuru Ambai	Fri 14:11	34316	17157361 (cyc: 3, node: 221)	43
16	srach	Fri 07:37	34464	17231688 (cyc: 7, node: 691)	22
17	Martin F	Fri 11:50	34473	17232459 (cyc: 6, node: 475)	66
18	Farhad	Fri 15:17	34731	17365144 (cyc: 5, node: 396)	21
19	James White	Thu 16:25	34806	17397292 (cyc: 20, node: 786)	36
20	Bob	Fri 15:22	34994	17493087 (cyc: 11, node: 566)	64
21	Crapoo Crapoo	Fri 09:46	35197	17598426 (cyc: 6, node: 271)	22
22	Darren Rowland	Fri 05:23	35202	17593252 (cyc: 22, node: 855)	57
23	Tim Sharp	Thu 22:53	35272	17636010 (cyc: 3, node: 140)	34
24	Ryan	Thu 22:13	35294	17646665 (cyc: 3, node: 139)	21
25	Stas Stanislawski	Fri 07:50	35401	17700279 (cyc: 6, node: 185)	35

Contributions in Daylight

This listing shows how much each contestant improved on the top score over the course of the day.

Friday

248.500	Oliver Woodford
224.900	14:53	Score test IV
23.600	15:19	Last roll of the dice

149.000	Mike Russell
0.500	19:27	Visual vs. Quantitative Quality is quite different
115.000	19:57	Picture Quality Enhance
19.400	20:40	Picture Quality Enhance 5-15
0.600	20:44	Picture Quality Enhance 6-15
3.400	20:48	Picture Quality Enhance 7-15
10.100	20:57	Picture Quality Enhance 7-14

67.500	sn0202
67.500	22:19	let data decide more

7.600	Alex P.
0.700	22:48	what' that?
4.700	23:30	filter 2
0.600	23:45	filter 0.2 of no more data
1.600	23:53	edge=data

Saturday

153.100	Alex P.
1.800	00:15	edge=data; jjii
0.100	00:38	filter adjusting 01
123.900	00:41	filter adjusting 03
10.200	00:55	filter adjusting 07
7.600	01:13	less filter
1.300	01:24	filter adjusting 14
1.800	01:33	fct tst done
6.400	11:46	splitt03

145.500	Abhisek Ukil
71.300	09:33	Pori clones 1
4.000	09:41	(e>=20 & e<=25)\| (e>33 & e<37) \| (e>=100
12.600	10:36	PORI BEST 8
15.900	10:36	PORI BEST 9
19.400	11:18	PORI BEST 12
0.200	11:59	PORI BEST 30
17.700	13:10	PORI BEST 30.1.12
3.200	13:30	PORI BEST 30.1.12.1.1
0.900	13:48	Pori New 1
0.100	14:08	Pori Cat2
0.100	14:58	Pori ans 3
0.100	17:04	Pori leaps 8-

59.300	Mike Russell
0.600	14:20	Lawn Care
35.200	14:40	Longer is Better but also boring
14.500	14:53	Restore Clarity to Images using Signal Processing
9.000	18:57	More organization in the code would be nice

35.500	srach
0.100	12:29	PORI BEST 30.1
5.400	13:18	PORI BEST 30.1.12.1
0.100	14:25	Lawn Care m
0.300	15:11	Pori ans 3 l
0.300	15:38	less nodes?
9.500	15:40	less nodes? IV
12.600	15:46	less nodes V
6.100	15:46	less nodes VI
0.200	16:11	moving out V
0.900	16:20	moving out VII

34.600	Sergey Y.
29.400	14:04	VerticalCat2
2.900	14:09	VertivalCat4
2.300	14:16	VerticalCat6

33.800	Amitabh Verma
1.800	01:38	Uncomplex 2.0
4.900	01:56	Uncomplex 3.0
4.200	02:06	Uncomplex 4.0
0.100	02:54	Optimizer 2.1
1.000	18:52	Optimizer 5.0
8.000	18:54	Optimizer 5.2
0.100	19:34	Which one v1.0
4.000	19:38	Which one v1.1
5.700	19:42	Which one v1.2
0.200	19:50	Which one v1.3
3.800	19:56	Gotta install a stereo

19.200	David Jones
0.400	03:13	Optima 2.1
5.200	03:22	Optima 2.1.0.1
11.400	04:41	Tall Glass of Water
0.800	05:21	Trio
1.400	05:47	Triplets

8.100	Gwendolyn Fish
0.100	22:09	more light
7.400	23:03	mytweek8
0.600	23:13	bed is calling

1.300	sn0202
1.300	09:20	mixture once more

0.600	the cyclist
0.200	11:00	PORI BEST 9 cyclified
0.100	11:18	PORI BEST 9 cyclified III
0.200	15:20	*linear cycler
0.100	15:59	One less, three times

Sunday

78.100	Abhisek Ukil
0.100	08:04	Pori a16
1.100	08:10	Pori a18
1.300	11:07	Pori a47
10.700	11:19	Pori a60
0.200	12:09	Pori a70
0.600	12:11	Pori a71
3.200	13:18	Pori b4
0.300	13:29	Pori b15
3.100	13:53	Pori b24
13.500	14:24	Pori b30
14.800	14:53	Pori b43
1.600	16:27	Pori c60
0.400	17:09	Pori c103
0.900	17:44	Pori c113
0.800	17:46	Pori c125
1.800	19:06	Pori c368
0.400	19:17	Pori c400
0.500	19:30	Pori c607
20.100	19:32	Pori c609
0.600	20:05	Pori c801
0.700	21:20	Pori c9003
0.300	21:28	Pori c9050
1.100	21:35	Pori c9100

65.900	sn0202
41.200	01:21	overfit?
11.500	06:47	grey lover again
13.200	23:58	speed lover

62.000	Sergey Y.
4.500	02:03	OverCat1
0.800	02:22	OverCat2
1.800	02:25	OverCat4
1.600	02:54	OverCat22
4.500	02:58	OverCat23
5.900	12:18	PoriCat1
1.900	12:30	PoriCat14
1.800	12:35	PoriCat21
0.600	12:38	PoriCat30
2.000	12:56	PoriCat80
6.500	15:12	PooryCat43
1.000	15:13	PoooriCat1
4.100	15:15	PoooriCat4
2.400	15:18	PoooriCat302
1.000	16:23	PoooriCat708
1.100	17:06	PooooooriCat1
5.800	20:11	PCat4
3.800	20:11	PCat5
0.300	20:13	PCat10
10.000	20:50	PCat20
0.600	22:17	PoCat1

40.500	Jan Langer
12.800	15:30	Knut passes 31
0.400	15:31	Knut passes 32
0.500	15:31	Knut passes 32
6.400	15:40	Knut passes 33
10.100	16:05	Knut passes 35
0.300	16:23	Knut passes 38
10.000	19:00	Niccola defends 7

16.700	Mike Russell
16.700	11:58	Rejoice the Sun is Out!

9.300	srach
1.100	10:19	Knut passes 4 less fst
2.600	10:49	Knut passes 4 less cycl 3
1.800	10:52	Knut passes 19 less
3.800	10:58	KNUt passes 17 less

5.500	Amitabh Verma
0.900	02:39	Tweaky 1.0
0.100	02:49	Tweak Bomb
1.100	03:13	Sleepy 3
1.200	03:21	Almost Slept
0.300	03:26	Final One 4 Today
1.900	20:40	Cat n Mouse

Monday

52.600	Alex P.
0.100	00:23	var05
3.700	00:47	kipp11b
2.900	00:50	kipp12
0.500	01:05	kipp12b
14.700	01:06	kipp12_5
0.600	01:18	two h ff
0.200	10:28	Nur die halben Sachen sind kompliziert
11.800	11:30	Euklid02
8.300	12:07	Euklid05
5.700	12:07	Euklid06
0.300	13:21	Snake 67
1.600	15:54	Flecki01
0.300	15:55	Flecki02
0.100	15:55	Flecki03
0.700	17:06	Flecki09
0.500	17:10	Flecki10
0.200	17:28	Flecki13
0.400	18:41	flecki17

37.800	the cyclist
37.800	18:48	Tfr cycling

29.000	Amitabh Verma
0.100	05:40	Another Sunday Gone BY
2.300	05:53	Turn off the lights
0.300	08:46	Insomniac 1
0.900	09:49	Make it Faster Righter.. Simpler
2.600	10:09	Make it Faster Righter.. Simpler.. tweaked
1.400	19:01	Add it to the queue 3
18.400	19:21	Add it to the queue 4
0.100	19:21	Steroid Tweak tweaked
0.400	21:25	All quiet on the western front
2.500	22:07	10 Pointer

9.000	sn0202
2.600	07:36	more or less blur
6.400	09:19	Make it Faster Righter

2.400	Magnus Schäfer
1.800	08:47	Some say that his voice can only be heard by cats
0.600	12:38	Some say that on really warm days he sheds his skin like a snake

1.700	srach
1.300	14:20	even slower
0.100	14:27	even slower II
0.200	14:29	even slower III
0.100	16:35	in and out again II

1.600	Abhisek Ukil
1.600	10:16	Pori d1

1.200	Alan Chalker
0.200	03:26	Tweaking again
0.700	16:14	Tweaking test
0.100	16:16	Tweaking test
0.200	18:21	Tweaking for real

1.200	Gwendolyn Fish
0.800	07:12	FinePrint
0.400	10:31	Oder ein bisschen mehr

0.100	Dana Butler
0.100	17:25	MonkeyTeam3

0.100	Mike Russell
0.100	16:41	msr_0007

Tuesday

63.400	Amitabh Verma
0.400	03:10	Midnight Oil Burner3
0.500	04:41	Sleepy 1
0.100	04:51	Sleepy 1
6.600	05:05	ZZZZzzz
0.100	05:48	Sleepy 5
0.100	06:01	Z3
0.300	06:57	Sweet Dreamz
0.100	08:41	Morning Alreay ?
0.100	09:29	Back to basics
1.000	09:31	Back to basics
2.000	09:32	Back to basics
1.800	09:52	Back to basics
0.200	10:19	Back to basics
24.300	11:49	Back to basics
0.800	11:53	Back to basics
0.200	11:56	Back to basics
17.100	13:10	Back to basics
0.500	13:44	Back to basics
0.300	14:28	Back to basics
0.100	17:00	Wow.. too many automated things floating around
0.800	18:04	And a few more rabbits
3.800	18:05	The ONE
0.600	18:40	Yay, NEO logic works !
0.500	18:41	This could be the ONE 2..
0.400	18:43	Aim for the lowest result
0.200	20:11	Back to basics
0.500	20:12	Back to basics

7.200	Alan Chalker
0.400	01:06	Night tweaker
0.200	03:19	Night tweaker
0.300	04:45	Auto tweaker
1.600	04:47	Auto tweaker
0.100	04:51	Auto tweaker
0.200	04:54	Auto tweaker
0.500	06:01	Auto tweaker
0.400	13:02	Auto tweaker
0.700	13:06	Auto tweaker
0.200	13:49	Auto tweaker
1.100	13:51	Auto tweaker
0.300	13:53	Auto tweaker
0.700	15:10	Auto tweaker
0.300	20:04	Auto tweaker
0.200	23:45	Auto tweaker

5.500	Yi Cao
0.100	17:24	more tuners
0.500	20:19	auto energy
0.100	20:26	it's time for jump
4.800	20:47	tomorrow is another day.

2.500	srach
2.200	06:41	Morning tweaker
0.200	10:05	close to lunch III
0.100	11:38	right after lunch

0.500	Sergey Y.
0.200	00:28	GCat14
0.300	02:46	GCat14

0.300	Gwendolyn Fish
0.100	08:32	Time counts
0.200	08:52	Der Mond ist aufgegangen

0.100	the cyclist
0.100	01:57	GCC

Wednesday

28.900	Hannes Naudé
28.900	15:38	Overfitting is a fool's game

11.000	Yi Cao
0.400	03:53	good morning
1.100	04:04	good morning
0.100	04:05	good morning
0.800	04:09	good morning
0.100	04:09	good morning
4.500	08:19	random break
0.100	12:28	tidy-up
0.700	12:37	tidy-up
0.600	12:39	tidy-up
0.800	12:47	tidy-up
0.700	12:49	tidy-up
0.400	12:52	tidy-up
0.500	13:02	tidy-up
0.200	13:20	ash

4.400	the cyclist
0.100	15:35	One per minute still gives plenty of time for fake entries
4.300	15:36	Sometimes mere suspicion of sock puppets is enough

3.600	Magnus
3.600	07:24	random change

0.300	Gwendolyn Fish
0.300	10:42	random cyclic breaking

Best Result

These are the first entries to break through each result barrier, ignoring time.

result	time	cpu	title, author
143631051	Wed 16:35	0.03	First one out of the gate, Alan Chalker
59943777	Wed 16:53	0.07	Average everything, Alan Chalker
24871596	Wed 16:59	44.51	a lazy try, Yi Cao
18525887	Wed 17:32	20.02	Smaller averages, Alan Chalker
17780653	Wed 17:51	14.41	StupidCat, Sergey Y.
17472216	Wed 18:24	34.08	BPF, Nicholas Howe
17232894	Wed 18:46	76.39	ilgaz scores 1:0, Jan Langer
16528740	Wed 20:25	22.11	Interpol3, Nicholas Howe
16131303	Wed 23:30	77.57	ilgaz scores 5:0, Jan Langer
16085741	Thu 12:11	91.65	ilgaz scores 9:0, Jan Langer
16037208	Thu 17:14	89.82	ilgaz scores 12:0, Jan Langer
15735561	Thu 22:13	39.00	Myopic005, Robert Macrae
15252086	Fri 10:43	65.32	try04, Alfonso Nieto-Castanon
15179119	Fri 10:47	87.91	try05, Alfonso Nieto-Castanon
15055208	Fri 10:47	40.20	Myopic007, Robert Macrae
14634633	Fri 11:40	89.42	Score test I (again), Oliver Woodford
14606489	Fri 11:51	90.34	Score test II, Oliver Woodford
14594951	Fri 11:52	89.95	Score test III, Oliver Woodford
14414853	Fri 14:53	99.73	Score test IV, Oliver Woodford
14414141	Fri 19:03	99.21	last roll 7, Alan Chalker
14398399	Fri 19:27	100.13	Visual vs. Quantitative Quality is quite different, Mike Russell
14351808	Fri 19:57	99.10	Picture Quality Enhance, Mike Russell
14311852	Sat 00:41	84.74	filter adjusting 03, Alex P.
14307983	Sat 00:55	84.22	filter adjusting 07, Alex P.
14304659	Sat 01:13	84.01	less filter, Alex P.
14302480	Sat 01:24	84.66	filter adjusting 14, Alex P.
14300119	Sat 01:56	84.06	Uncomplex 3.0, Amitabh Verma
14298825	Sat 02:06	83.70	Uncomplex 4.0, Amitabh Verma
14296537	Sat 03:13	84.60	Optima 2.1, David Jones
14296458	Sat 03:22	83.47	Optima 2.1.0.1, David Jones
14289687	Sat 04:41	83.97	Tall Glass of Water, David Jones
14288276	Sat 05:51	84.49	Fifteen, David Jones
14287523	Sat 06:12	84.65	Fourteen, David Jones
14252006	Sat 09:33	82.76	Pori clones 1, Abhisek Ukil
14250928	Sat 10:34	82.75	PORI BEST 4, Abhisek Ukil
14244822	Sat 11:18	50.26	PORI BEST 12, Abhisek Ukil
14241614	Sat 11:46	50.56	splitt03, Alex P.
14241511	Sat 11:59	50.31	PORI BEST 30, Abhisek Ukil
14232614	Sat 13:10	50.22	PORI BEST 30.1.12, Abhisek Ukil
14230326	Sat 13:18	51.79	PORI BEST 30.1.12.1, srach
14228758	Sat 13:30	51.27	PORI BEST 30.1.12.1.1, Abhisek Ukil
14227244	Sat 13:41	64.31	PORI BEST 50.1, Abhisek Ukil
14213396	Sat 14:04	53.21	VerticalCat2, Sergey Y.
14205680	Sat 14:04	91.23	VerticalCat3, Sergey Y.
14191923	Sat 14:40	56.33	Longer is Better but also boring, Mike Russell
14184133	Sat 14:53	58.42	Restore Clarity to Images using Signal Processing, Mike Russell
14179352	Sat 15:40	57.56	less nodes? IV, srach
14172943	Sat 15:46	58.25	less nodes V, srach
14169593	Sat 15:46	59.85	less nodes VI, srach
14169036	Sat 15:51	62.26	less nodes IX, srach
14168646	Sat 18:52	61.30	Optimizer 5.0, Amitabh Verma
14164634	Sat 18:54	61.43	Optimizer 5.2, Amitabh Verma
14160113	Sat 18:57	61.54	More organization in the code would be nice, Mike Russell
14150684	Sat 18:59	109.35	Fantome, Mike Russell
14149543	Sat 23:03	61.08	mytweek8, Gwendolyn Fish
14149386	Sat 23:13	60.54	bed is calling, Gwendolyn Fish
14141184	Sun 00:40	106.97	Done is Dinner, Mike Russell
14128583	Sun 01:21	61.33	overfit?, sn0202
14128552	Sun 01:30	63.30	Bobo Platter Coming Up, Mike Russell
14126464	Sun 02:03	60.72	OverCat1, Sergey Y.
14126016	Sun 02:22	61.10	OverCat2, Sergey Y.
14125084	Sun 02:25	61.09	OverCat4, Sergey Y.
14124706	Sun 02:39	60.77	Tweaky 1.0, Amitabh Verma
14124679	Sun 02:49	60.77	Tweak Bomb, Amitabh Verma
14123324	Sun 02:54	61.04	OverCat22, Sergey Y.
14121119	Sun 02:58	60.71	OverCat23, Sergey Y.
14120538	Sun 03:13	60.90	Sleepy 3, Amitabh Verma
14119983	Sun 03:21	60.80	Almost Slept, Amitabh Verma
14119758	Sun 03:26	60.97	Final One 4 Today, Amitabh Verma
14112963	Sun 05:00	78.50	grey lover, sn0202
14111722	Sun 06:47	67.95	grey lover again, sn0202
14110990	Sun 08:10	68.22	Pori a18, Abhisek Ukil
14102043	Sun 08:51	76.59	Knut passes 3, Jan Langer
14100935	Sun 09:30	81.30	Knut passes 12, Jan Langer
14097746	Sun 09:41	81.81	KNUt passes 17, Jan Langer
14091667	Sun 09:47	97.78	Knut passes 19, Jan Langer
14089372	Sun 11:07	80.81	Pori a47, Abhisek Ukil
14089280	Sun 11:46	81.22	Pori a64, Abhisek Ukil
14088419	Sun 11:54	77.76	Wakeup To Music Wakeup to Progress, Mike Russell
14080260	Sun 11:58	77.48	Rejoice the Sun is Out!, Mike Russell
14064019	Sun 12:18	176.79	Solvers Engage, Mike Russell
14064009	Sun 14:24	77.20	Pori b30, Abhisek Ukil
14054922	Sun 14:53	78.60	Pori b43, Abhisek Ukil
14052098	Sun 15:12	78.29	PooryCat43, Sergey Y.
14051406	Sun 15:13	78.42	PoooriCat1, Sergey Y.
14048250	Sun 15:15	79.24	PoooriCat4, Sergey Y.
14048109	Sun 15:31	76.69	Knut passes 32, Jan Langer
14045426	Sun 15:34	78.02	PooooriCat10, Sergey Y.
14043046	Sun 15:38	78.35	PoooriCat61, Sergey Y.
14040260	Sun 16:05	76.07	Knut passes 35, Jan Langer
14039594	Sun 16:23	76.57	Knut passes 38, Jan Langer
14038812	Sun 16:27	76.03	Pori c60, Abhisek Ukil
14037875	Sun 17:06	76.45	PooooooriCat1, Sergey Y.
14037665	Sun 17:44	76.01	Pori c113, Abhisek Ukil
14036792	Sun 17:46	76.45	Pori c125, Abhisek Ukil
14032215	Sun 19:00	76.07	Niccola defends 7, Jan Langer
14030769	Sun 19:06	76.56	Pori c368, Abhisek Ukil
14021146	Sun 19:32	75.70	Pori c609, Abhisek Ukil
14020601	Sun 20:05	75.94	Pori c801, Abhisek Ukil
14017692	Sun 20:11	75.99	PCat4, Sergey Y.
14015832	Sun 20:11	75.94	PCat5, Sergey Y.
14015629	Sun 20:13	75.97	PCat10, Sergey Y.
14014937	Sun 20:40	75.74	Cat n Mouse, Amitabh Verma
14014418	Sun 20:45	76.46	Pori c1000, Abhisek Ukil
14009902	Sun 20:50	75.77	PCat20, Sergey Y.
14009114	Sun 21:20	76.18	Pori c9003, Abhisek Ukil
14008394	Sun 21:35	76.21	Pori c9100, Abhisek Ukil
14006562	Mon 00:47	64.75	kipp11b, Alex P.
14005049	Mon 00:50	64.83	kipp12, Alex P.
14004776	Mon 01:05	65.00	kipp12b, Alex P.
13997505	Mon 01:06	64.77	kipp12_5, Alex P.
13997335	Mon 01:18	64.30	two h ff, Alex P.
13997201	Mon 05:40	64.33	Another Sunday Gone BY, Amitabh Verma
13996157	Mon 05:53	63.95	Turn off the lights, Amitabh Verma
13995622	Mon 07:12	64.25	FinePrint, Gwendolyn Fish
13994174	Mon 07:36	64.83	more or less blur, sn0202
13990472	Mon 09:19	60.64	Make it Faster Righter, sn0202
13989215	Mon 10:09	60.72	Make it Faster Righter.. Simpler.. tweaked, Amitabh Verma
13988360	Mon 10:16	60.89	Pori d1, Abhisek Ukil
13988169	Mon 10:31	60.48	Oder ein bisschen mehr, Gwendolyn Fish
13982319	Mon 11:30	60.20	Euklid02, Alex P.
13978241	Mon 12:07	59.95	Euklid05, Alex P.
13975270	Mon 12:07	60.54	Euklid06, Alex P.
13975237	Mon 12:38	64.92	Some say that on really warm days he sheds his skin like a snake, Magnus Schäfer
13974342	Mon 15:54	62.15	Flecki01, Alex P.
13974130	Mon 15:55	62.41	Flecki02, Alex P.
13974096	Mon 15:55	62.31	Flecki03, Alex P.
13974053	Mon 16:01	62.68	Flecki04, Alex P.
13973803	Mon 16:14	62.06	Tweaking test, Alan Chalker
13973617	Mon 16:16	62.76	Tweaking test, Alan Chalker
13973248	Mon 17:06	62.35	Flecki09, Alex P.
13972988	Mon 17:10	62.55	Flecki10, Alex P.
13972929	Mon 17:28	62.14	Flecki13, Alex P.
13972919	Mon 18:18	62.59	Tweaking for real, Alan Chalker
13972914	Mon 18:19	62.17	Tweaking for real, Alan Chalker
13972859	Mon 18:21	62.03	Tweaking for real, Alan Chalker
13972847	Mon 18:22	62.35	Tweaking for real, Alan Chalker
13972843	Mon 18:23	62.27	Tweaking for real, Alan Chalker
13972694	Mon 18:41	61.87	flecki17, Alex P.
13953072	Mon 18:48	64.46	Tfr cycling, the cyclist
13953056	Mon 19:01	61.99	Add it to the queue 3, Amitabh Verma
13943247	Mon 19:21	64.13	Add it to the queue 4, Amitabh Verma
13943010	Mon 21:25	64.14	All quiet on the western front, Amitabh Verma
13942411	Mon 22:07	63.71	10 Pointer, Amitabh Verma
13942227	Tue 01:06	63.33	Night tweaker, Alan Chalker
13942188	Tue 01:50	63.68	More things to tweak, Amitabh Verma
13942108	Tue 03:09	62.59	Midnight Oil Burner2, Amitabh Verma
13941966	Tue 03:10	62.47	Midnight Oil Burner3, Amitabh Verma
13941896	Tue 03:19	62.24	Night tweaker, Alan Chalker
13941881	Tue 04:19	62.65	Set the alarm, Amitabh Verma
13941604	Tue 04:41	62.50	Sleepy 1, Amitabh Verma
13941348	Tue 04:45	62.91	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13940584	Tue 04:47	62.67	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13940501	Tue 04:51	62.58	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13940491	Tue 05:00	62.75	Sleepy, Amitabh Verma
13937303	Tue 05:05	61.78	ZZZZzzz, Amitabh Verma
13937245	Tue 05:25	62.25	ZZZZzzz, Amitabh Verma
13937188	Tue 05:50	62.60	Sleepy 6, Amitabh Verma
13936897	Tue 06:01	62.15	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13935659	Tue 06:41	62.56	Morning tweaker, srach
13935552	Tue 08:28	62.69	More Parameters to Tweek, Gwendolyn Fish
13935409	Tue 09:29	62.05	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13934962	Tue 09:31	61.80	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13933965	Tue 09:32	61.84	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13932953	Tue 09:52	62.25	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13932794	Tue 10:19	62.01	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13920647	Tue 11:49	61.88	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13920203	Tue 11:53	62.10	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13919885	Tue 13:02	62.16	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13919523	Tue 13:06	62.28	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13911089	Tue 13:10	61.77	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13910674	Tue 13:44	62.41	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13910599	Tue 13:49	62.29	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13910137	Tue 13:51	61.98	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13909920	Tue 13:53	62.09	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13909896	Tue 14:28	61.60	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13909634	Tue 15:10	61.36	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13909506	Tue 15:36	62.73	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13909441	Tue 15:37	62.56	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13909400	Tue 17:03	62.07	New Approach, Amitabh Verma
13908774	Tue 18:04	62.72	And a few more rabbits, Amitabh Verma
13906961	Tue 18:05	62.47	The ONE, Amitabh Verma
13906741	Tue 18:40	62.03	Yay, NEO logic works !, Amitabh Verma
13906534	Tue 18:41	61.85	This could be the ONE 2.., Amitabh Verma
13906352	Tue 18:43	61.76	Aim for the lowest result, Amitabh Verma
13906305	Tue 18:56	62.21	The new ONE, Amitabh Verma
13906074	Tue 20:04	62.35	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13905881	Tue 20:12	61.82	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13905495	Tue 20:19	62.30	auto energy, Yi Cao
13903185	Tue 20:47	61.76	tomorrow is another day., Yi Cao
13903160	Tue 23:34	61.84	Back to basics, Amitabh Verma
13903104	Tue 23:45	61.69	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13903004	Tue 23:56	62.36	Auto tweaker, Alan Chalker
13902968	Wed 03:14	62.35	good morning, Yi Cao
13902670	Wed 03:53	62.55	good morning, Yi Cao
13902314	Wed 04:04	61.77	good morning, Yi Cao
13902106	Wed 04:05	62.41	good morning, Yi Cao
13901937	Wed 04:09	61.42	good morning, Yi Cao
13901798	Wed 04:09	61.90	good morning, Yi Cao
13900030	Wed 07:24	61.81	random change, Magnus
13897755	Wed 08:19	61.75	random break, Yi Cao
13897329	Wed 12:37	61.43	tidy-up, Yi Cao
13897026	Wed 12:39	61.35	tidy-up, Yi Cao
13896961	Wed 12:42	61.65	tidy-up, Yi Cao
13896719	Wed 12:47	60.99	tidy-up, Yi Cao
13896318	Wed 12:49	61.21	tidy-up, Yi Cao
13896027	Wed 12:52	61.47	tidy-up, Yi Cao
13896000	Wed 13:02	60.64	tidy-up, Yi Cao
13895981	Wed 13:13	61.06	ash, Yi Cao
13895939	Wed 13:19	60.90	ash, Yi Cao
13895911	Wed 13:20	60.72	ash, Yi Cao
13895887	Wed 14:02	61.53	black box, Yi Cao
13895862	Wed 15:31	60.94	Pori f1, Abhisek Ukil
13895839	Wed 15:31	61.75	Pori f2, Abhisek Ukil
13893373	Wed 15:36	62.12	Sometimes mere suspicion of sock puppets is enough, the cyclist
13878650	Wed 15:38	62.68	Overfitting is a fool's game, Hannes Naudé

All the Leaders

Here is a chronological list of the entries that held the number one spot, listed with the date submitted, the percent improvement in score, and the length of time each spent on top.

	contestant	title	date	% imp	hours
1	Alan Chalker	First one out of the gate	Wed 16:35	Inf%	0.31
2	Alan Chalker	Average everything	Wed 16:53	58.27%	0.10
3	Yi Cao	a lazy try	Wed 16:59	58.51%	0.54
4	Alan Chalker	Smaller averages	Wed 17:32	25.51%	0.32
5	Sergey Y.	StupidCat	Wed 17:51	4.02%	0.55
6	Nicholas Howe	BPF	Wed 18:24	1.73%	0.38
7	Jan Langer	ilgaz scores 1:0	Wed 18:46	1.31%	0.47
8	Jan Langer	ilgaz scores 2:0	Wed 19:15	0.05%	1.17
9	Nicholas Howe	Interpol3	Wed 20:25	4.09%	3.08
10	Jan Langer	ilgaz scores 5:0	Wed 23:30	2.25%	12.69
11	Jan Langer	ilgaz scores 9:0	Thu 12:11	0.07%	5.05
12	Jan Langer	ilgaz scores 12:0	Thu 17:14	0.32%	2.21
13	Oliver Woodford	Third try (faster)	Thu 19:26	0.02%	2.25
14	Robert Macrae	Myopic004	Thu 21:42	0.29%	0.53
15	Robert Macrae	Myopic005	Thu 22:13	1.92%	12.49
16	Alfonso Nieto-Castanon	try04	Fri 10:43	3.05%	0.07
17	Alfonso Nieto-Castanon	try05	Fri 10:47	0.29%	0.01
18	Robert Macrae	Myopic007	Fri 10:47	1.02%	0.88
19	Oliver Woodford	Score test I (again)	Fri 11:40	2.55%	0.18
20	Oliver Woodford	Score test II	Fri 11:51	0.17%	0.01
21	Oliver Woodford	Score test III	Fri 11:52	0.09%	3.03
22	Oliver Woodford	Score test IV	Fri 14:53	0.77%	0.43
23	Oliver Woodford	Last roll of the dice	Fri 15:19	0.08%	4.14
24	Mike Russell	Visual vs. Quantitative Quality is quite different	Fri 19:27	0.00%	0.48
25	Mike Russell	Picture Quality Enhance	Fri 19:57	0.40%	0.72
26	Mike Russell	Picture Quality Enhance 5-15	Fri 20:40	0.07%	0.07
27	Mike Russell	Picture Quality Enhance 6-15	Fri 20:44	0.00%	0.07
28	Mike Russell	Picture Quality Enhance 7-15	Fri 20:48	0.01%	0.14
29	Mike Russell	Picture Quality Enhance 7-14	Fri 20:57	0.03%	1.37
30	sn0202	let data decide more	Fri 22:19	0.23%	0.48
31	Alex P.	what' that?	Fri 22:48	0.00%	0.71
32	Alex P.	filter 2	Fri 23:30	0.02%	0.24
33	Alex P.	filter 0.2 of no more data	Fri 23:45	0.00%	0.14
34	Alex P.	edge=data	Fri 23:53	0.01%	0.37
35	Alex P.	edge=data; jjii	Sat 00:15	0.01%	0.37
36	Alex P.	filter adjusting 01	Sat 00:38	0.00%	0.06
37	Alex P.	filter adjusting 03	Sat 00:41	0.43%	0.24
38	Alex P.	filter adjusting 07	Sat 00:55	0.04%	0.29
39	Alex P.	less filter	Sat 01:13	0.03%	0.18
40	Alex P.	filter adjusting 14	Sat 01:24	0.00%	0.15
41	Alex P.	fct tst done	Sat 01:33	0.01%	0.10
42	Amitabh Verma	Uncomplex 2.0	Sat 01:38	0.01%	0.30
43	Amitabh Verma	Uncomplex 3.0	Sat 01:56	0.02%	0.17
44	Amitabh Verma	Uncomplex 4.0	Sat 02:06	0.01%	0.80
45	Amitabh Verma	Optimizer 2.1	Sat 02:54	0.00%	0.33
46	David Jones	Optima 2.1	Sat 03:13	0.00%	0.14
47	David Jones	Optima 2.1.0.1	Sat 03:22	0.02%	1.33
48	David Jones	Tall Glass of Water	Sat 04:41	0.04%	0.65
49	David Jones	Trio	Sat 05:21	0.00%	0.43
50	David Jones	Triplets	Sat 05:47	0.00%	3.56
51	sn0202	mixture once more	Sat 09:20	0.00%	0.22
52	Abhisek Ukil	Pori clones 1	Sat 09:33	0.25%	0.13
53	Abhisek Ukil	(e>=20 & e<=25)\| (e>33 & e<37) \| (e>=100	Sat 09:41	0.01%	0.91
54	Abhisek Ukil	PORI BEST 8	Sat 10:36	0.04%	0.00
55	Abhisek Ukil	PORI BEST 9	Sat 10:36	0.06%	0.40
56	the cyclist	PORI BEST 9 cyclified	Sat 11:00	0.00%	0.30
57	the cyclist	PORI BEST 9 cyclified III	Sat 11:18	0.00%	0.01
58	Abhisek Ukil	PORI BEST 12	Sat 11:18	0.07%	0.46
59	Alex P.	splitt03	Sat 11:46	0.02%	0.22
60	Abhisek Ukil	PORI BEST 30	Sat 11:59	0.00%	0.50
61	srach	PORI BEST 30.1	Sat 12:29	0.00%	0.69
62	Abhisek Ukil	PORI BEST 30.1.12	Sat 13:10	0.06%	0.13
63	srach	PORI BEST 30.1.12.1	Sat 13:18	0.02%	0.19
64	Abhisek Ukil	PORI BEST 30.1.12.1.1	Sat 13:30	0.01%	0.30
65	Abhisek Ukil	Pori New 1	Sat 13:48	0.00%	0.27
66	Sergey Y.	VerticalCat2	Sat 14:04	0.10%	0.07
67	Abhisek Ukil	Pori Cat2	Sat 14:08	0.00%	0.01
68	Sergey Y.	VertivalCat4	Sat 14:09	0.01%	0.11
69	Sergey Y.	VerticalCat6	Sat 14:16	0.01%	0.07
70	Mike Russell	Lawn Care	Sat 14:20	0.00%	0.09
71	srach	Lawn Care m	Sat 14:25	0.00%	0.25
72	Mike Russell	Longer is Better but also boring	Sat 14:40	0.12%	0.21
73	Mike Russell	Restore Clarity to Images using Signal Processing	Sat 14:53	0.05%	0.08
74	Abhisek Ukil	Pori ans 3	Sat 14:58	0.00%	0.22
75	srach	Pori ans 3 l	Sat 15:11	0.00%	0.16
76	the cyclist	*linear cycler	Sat 15:20	0.00%	0.29
77	srach	less nodes?	Sat 15:38	0.00%	0.03
78	srach	less nodes? IV	Sat 15:40	0.03%	0.11
79	srach	less nodes V	Sat 15:46	0.04%	0.00
80	srach	less nodes VI	Sat 15:46	0.02%	0.21
81	the cyclist	One less, three times	Sat 15:59	0.00%	0.20
82	srach	moving out V	Sat 16:11	0.00%	0.14
83	srach	moving out VII	Sat 16:20	0.00%	0.73
84	Abhisek Ukil	Pori leaps 8-	Sat 17:04	0.00%	1.81
85	Amitabh Verma	Optimizer 5.0	Sat 18:52	0.00%	0.03
86	Amitabh Verma	Optimizer 5.2	Sat 18:54	0.03%	0.06
87	Mike Russell	More organization in the code would be nice	Sat 18:57	0.03%	0.61
88	Amitabh Verma	Which one v1.0	Sat 19:34	0.00%	0.06
89	Amitabh Verma	Which one v1.1	Sat 19:38	0.01%	0.08
90	Amitabh Verma	Which one v1.2	Sat 19:42	0.02%	0.14
91	Amitabh Verma	Which one v1.3	Sat 19:50	0.00%	0.10
92	Amitabh Verma	Gotta install a stereo	Sat 19:56	0.01%	2.21
93	Gwendolyn Fish	more light	Sat 22:09	0.00%	0.90
94	Gwendolyn Fish	mytweek8	Sat 23:03	0.03%	0.16
95	Gwendolyn Fish	bed is calling	Sat 23:13	0.00%	2.15
96	sn0202	overfit?	Sun 01:21	0.15%	0.69
97	Sergey Y.	OverCat1	Sun 02:03	0.02%	0.33
98	Sergey Y.	OverCat2	Sun 02:22	0.00%	0.05
99	Sergey Y.	OverCat4	Sun 02:25	0.01%	0.23
100	Amitabh Verma	Tweaky 1.0	Sun 02:39	0.00%	0.17
101	Amitabh Verma	Tweak Bomb	Sun 02:49	0.00%	0.09
102	Sergey Y.	OverCat22	Sun 02:54	0.01%	0.07
103	Sergey Y.	OverCat23	Sun 02:58	0.02%	0.24
104	Amitabh Verma	Sleepy 3	Sun 03:13	0.00%	0.14
105	Amitabh Verma	Almost Slept	Sun 03:21	0.00%	0.08
106	Amitabh Verma	Final One 4 Today	Sun 03:26	0.00%	3.35
107	sn0202	grey lover again	Sun 06:47	0.04%	1.28
108	Abhisek Ukil	Pori a16	Sun 08:04	0.00%	0.11
109	Abhisek Ukil	Pori a18	Sun 08:10	0.00%	2.15
110	srach	Knut passes 4 less fst	Sun 10:19	0.00%	0.49
111	srach	Knut passes 4 less cycl 3	Sun 10:49	0.01%	0.05
112	srach	Knut passes 19 less	Sun 10:52	0.01%	0.11
113	srach	KNUt passes 17 less	Sun 10:58	0.01%	0.14
114	Abhisek Ukil	Pori a47	Sun 11:07	0.00%	0.21
115	Abhisek Ukil	Pori a60	Sun 11:19	0.04%	0.65
116	Mike Russell	Rejoice the Sun is Out!	Sun 11:58	0.06%	0.17
117	Abhisek Ukil	Pori a70	Sun 12:09	0.00%	0.03
118	Abhisek Ukil	Pori a71	Sun 12:11	0.00%	0.13
119	Sergey Y.	PoriCat1	Sun 12:18	0.02%	0.20
120	Sergey Y.	PoriCat14	Sun 12:30	0.01%	0.08
121	Sergey Y.	PoriCat21	Sun 12:35	0.01%	0.05
122	Sergey Y.	PoriCat30	Sun 12:38	0.00%	0.29
123	Sergey Y.	PoriCat80	Sun 12:56	0.01%	0.37
124	Abhisek Ukil	Pori b4	Sun 13:18	0.01%	0.18
125	Abhisek Ukil	Pori b15	Sun 13:29	0.00%	0.41
126	Abhisek Ukil	Pori b24	Sun 13:53	0.01%	0.50
127	Abhisek Ukil	Pori b30	Sun 14:24	0.05%	0.48
128	Abhisek Ukil	Pori b43	Sun 14:53	0.05%	0.32
129	Sergey Y.	PooryCat43	Sun 15:12	0.02%	0.03
130	Sergey Y.	PoooriCat1	Sun 15:13	0.00%	0.02
131	Sergey Y.	PoooriCat4	Sun 15:15	0.01%	0.06
132	Sergey Y.	PoooriCat302	Sun 15:18	0.01%	0.20
133	Jan Langer	Knut passes 31	Sun 15:30	0.05%	0.02
134	Jan Langer	Knut passes 32	Sun 15:31	0.00%	0.00
135	Jan Langer	Knut passes 32	Sun 15:31	0.00%	0.16
136	Jan Langer	Knut passes 33	Sun 15:40	0.02%	0.41
137	Jan Langer	Knut passes 35	Sun 16:05	0.04%	0.30
138	Jan Langer	Knut passes 38	Sun 16:23	0.00%	0.00
139	Sergey Y.	PoooriCat708	Sun 16:23	0.00%	0.06
140	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c60	Sun 16:27	0.01%	0.66
141	Sergey Y.	PooooooriCat1	Sun 17:06	0.00%	0.04
142	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c103	Sun 17:09	0.00%	0.59
143	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c113	Sun 17:44	0.00%	0.03
144	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c125	Sun 17:46	0.00%	1.24
145	Jan Langer	Niccola defends 7	Sun 19:00	0.04%	0.09
146	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c368	Sun 19:06	0.01%	0.18
147	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c400	Sun 19:17	0.00%	0.22
148	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c607	Sun 19:30	0.00%	0.03
149	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c609	Sun 19:32	0.07%	0.56
150	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c801	Sun 20:05	0.00%	0.09
151	Sergey Y.	PCat4	Sun 20:11	0.02%	0.00
152	Sergey Y.	PCat5	Sun 20:11	0.01%	0.03
153	Sergey Y.	PCat10	Sun 20:13	0.00%	0.46
154	Amitabh Verma	Cat n Mouse	Sun 20:40	0.01%	0.17
155	Sergey Y.	PCat20	Sun 20:50	0.04%	0.50
156	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c9003	Sun 21:20	0.00%	0.13
157	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c9050	Sun 21:28	0.00%	0.11
158	Abhisek Ukil	Pori c9100	Sun 21:35	0.00%	0.70
159	Sergey Y.	PoCat1	Sun 22:17	0.00%	1.67
160	sn0202	speed lover	Sun 23:58	0.05%	0.43
161	Alex P.	var05	Mon 00:23	0.00%	0.39
162	Alex P.	kipp11b	Mon 00:47	0.01%	0.06
163	Alex P.	kipp12	Mon 00:50	0.01%	0.25
164	Alex P.	kipp12b	Mon 01:05	0.00%	0.01
165	Alex P.	kipp12_5	Mon 01:06	0.05%	0.19
166	Alex P.	two h ff	Mon 01:18	0.00%	2.14
167	Alan Chalker	Tweaking again	Mon 03:26	0.00%	2.23
168	Amitabh Verma	Another Sunday Gone BY	Mon 05:40	0.00%	0.21
169	Amitabh Verma	Turn off the lights	Mon 05:53	0.01%	1.32
170	Gwendolyn Fish	FinePrint	Mon 07:12	0.00%	0.40
171	sn0202	more or less blur	Mon 07:36	0.01%	1.18
172	Amitabh Verma	Insomniac 1	Mon 08:46	0.00%	0.01
173	Magnus Schäfer	Some say that his voice can only be heard by cats	Mon 08:47	0.01%	0.54
174	sn0202	Make it Faster Righter	Mon 09:19	0.02%	0.49
175	Amitabh Verma	Make it Faster Righter.. Simpler	Mon 09:49	0.00%	0.35
176	Amitabh Verma	Make it Faster Righter.. Simpler.. tweaked	Mon 10:09	0.01%	0.12
177	Abhisek Ukil	Pori d1	Mon 10:16	0.01%	0.19
178	Alex P.	Nur die halben Sachen sind kompliziert	Mon 10:28	0.00%	0.06
179	Gwendolyn Fish	Oder ein bisschen mehr	Mon 10:31	0.00%	0.97
180	Alex P.	Euklid02	Mon 11:30	0.04%	0.62
181	Alex P.	Euklid05	Mon 12:07	0.03%	0.01
182	Alex P.	Euklid06	Mon 12:07	0.02%	0.51
183	Magnus Schäfer	Some say that on really warm days he sheds his skin like a snake	Mon 12:38	0.00%	0.72
184	Alex P.	Snake 67	Mon 13:21	0.00%	0.99
185	srach	even slower	Mon 14:20	0.00%	0.11
186	srach	even slower II	Mon 14:27	0.00%	0.04
187	srach	even slower III	Mon 14:29	0.00%	1.41
188	Alex P.	Flecki01	Mon 15:54	0.01%	0.01
189	Alex P.	Flecki02	Mon 15:55	0.00%	0.01
190	Alex P.	Flecki03	Mon 15:55	0.00%	0.31
191	Alan Chalker	Tweaking test	Mon 16:14	0.00%	0.04
192	Alan Chalker	Tweaking test	Mon 16:16	0.00%	0.31
193	srach	in and out again II	Mon 16:35	0.00%	0.10
194	Mike Russell	msr_0007	Mon 16:41	0.00%	0.41
195	Alex P.	Flecki09	Mon 17:06	0.00%	0.06
196	Alex P.	Flecki10	Mon 17:10	0.00%	0.26
197	Dana Butler	MonkeyTeam3	Mon 17:25	0.00%	0.04
198	Alex P.	Flecki13	Mon 17:28	0.00%	0.88
199	Alan Chalker	Tweaking for real	Mon 18:21	0.00%	0.35
200	Alex P.	flecki17	Mon 18:41	0.00%	0.11
201	the cyclist	Tfr cycling	Mon 18:48	0.14%	0.21
202	Amitabh Verma	Add it to the queue 3	Mon 19:01	0.01%	0.34
203	Amitabh Verma	Add it to the queue 4	Mon 19:21	0.07%	0.01
204	Amitabh Verma	Steroid Tweak tweaked	Mon 19:21	0.00%	2.06
205	Amitabh Verma	All quiet on the western front	Mon 21:25	0.00%	0.69
206	Amitabh Verma	10 Pointer	Mon 22:07	0.01%	2.36
207	Sergey Y.	GCat14	Tue 00:28	0.00%	0.62
208	Alan Chalker	Night tweaker	Tue 01:06	0.00%	0.86
209	the cyclist	GCC	Tue 01:57	0.00%	0.82
210	Sergey Y.	GCat14	Tue 02:46	0.00%	0.40
211	Amitabh Verma	Midnight Oil Burner3	Tue 03:10	0.00%	0.14
212	Alan Chalker	Night tweaker	Tue 03:19	0.00%	1.37
213	Amitabh Verma	Sleepy 1	Tue 04:41	0.00%	0.07
214	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 04:45	0.00%	0.04
215	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 04:47	0.01%	0.06
216	Amitabh Verma	Sleepy 1	Tue 04:51	0.00%	0.01
217	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 04:51	0.00%	0.04
218	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 04:54	0.00%	0.18
219	Amitabh Verma	ZZZZzzz	Tue 05:05	0.02%	0.72
220	Amitabh Verma	Sleepy 5	Tue 05:48	0.00%	0.22
221	Amitabh Verma	Z3	Tue 06:01	0.00%	0.01
222	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 06:01	0.00%	0.65
223	srach	Morning tweaker	Tue 06:41	0.01%	0.28
224	Amitabh Verma	Sweet Dreamz	Tue 06:57	0.00%	1.58
225	Gwendolyn Fish	Time counts	Tue 08:32	0.00%	0.15
226	Amitabh Verma	Morning Alreay ?	Tue 08:41	0.00%	0.19
227	Gwendolyn Fish	Der Mond ist aufgegangen	Tue 08:52	0.00%	0.62
228	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 09:29	0.00%	0.03
229	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 09:31	0.00%	0.01
230	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 09:32	0.01%	0.33
231	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 09:52	0.01%	0.22
232	srach	close to lunch III	Tue 10:05	0.00%	0.24
233	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 10:19	0.00%	1.32
234	srach	right after lunch	Tue 11:38	0.00%	0.17
235	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 11:49	0.09%	0.08
236	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 11:53	0.00%	0.04
237	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 11:56	0.00%	1.10
238	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 13:02	0.00%	0.07
239	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 13:06	0.00%	0.07
240	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 13:10	0.06%	0.56
241	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 13:44	0.00%	0.08
242	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 13:49	0.00%	0.04
243	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 13:51	0.00%	0.04
244	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 13:53	0.00%	0.59
245	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 14:28	0.00%	0.70
246	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 15:10	0.00%	1.83
247	Amitabh Verma	Wow.. too many automated things floating around	Tue 17:00	0.00%	0.40
248	Yi Cao	more tuners	Tue 17:24	0.00%	0.66
249	Amitabh Verma	And a few more rabbits	Tue 18:04	0.00%	0.02
250	Amitabh Verma	The ONE	Tue 18:05	0.01%	0.59
251	Amitabh Verma	Yay, NEO logic works !	Tue 18:40	0.00%	0.02
252	Amitabh Verma	This could be the ONE 2..	Tue 18:41	0.00%	0.03
253	Amitabh Verma	Aim for the lowest result	Tue 18:43	0.00%	1.35
254	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 20:04	0.00%	0.10
255	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 20:11	0.00%	0.03
256	Amitabh Verma	Back to basics	Tue 20:12	0.00%	0.12
257	Yi Cao	auto energy	Tue 20:19	0.00%	0.11
258	Yi Cao	it's time for jump	Tue 20:26	0.00%	0.35
259	Yi Cao	tomorrow is another day.	Tue 20:47	0.02%	2.96
260	Alan Chalker	Auto tweaker	Tue 23:45	0.00%	4.14
261	Yi Cao	good morning	Wed 03:53	0.00%	0.18
262	Yi Cao	good morning	Wed 04:04	0.00%	0.01
263	Yi Cao	good morning	Wed 04:05	0.00%	0.06
264	Yi Cao	good morning	Wed 04:09	0.00%	0.01
265	Yi Cao	good morning	Wed 04:09	0.00%	3.25
266	Magnus	random change	Wed 07:24	0.01%	0.91
267	Yi Cao	random break	Wed 08:19	0.02%	2.38
268	Gwendolyn Fish	random cyclic breaking	Wed 10:42	0.00%	1.78
269	Yi Cao	tidy-up	Wed 12:28	0.00%	0.15
270	Yi Cao	tidy-up	Wed 12:37	0.00%	0.03
271	Yi Cao	tidy-up	Wed 12:39	0.00%	0.14
272	Yi Cao	tidy-up	Wed 12:47	0.00%	0.03
273	Yi Cao	tidy-up	Wed 12:49	0.00%	0.06
274	Yi Cao	tidy-up	Wed 12:52	0.00%	0.17
275	Yi Cao	tidy-up	Wed 13:02	0.00%	0.29
276	Yi Cao	ash	Wed 13:20	0.00%	2.25
277	the cyclist	One per minute still gives plenty of time for fake entries	Wed 15:35	0.00%	0.02
278	the cyclist	Sometimes mere suspicion of sock puppets is enough	Wed 15:36	0.02%	0.04
279	Hannes Naudé	Overfitting is a fool's game	Wed 15:38	0.10%	19.52

Score

This is the most useful diagram for visualizing the contest. It shows the dramatic improvements that occur over time. Each passing entry is a dot, with its submission time on the x-axis and it's score on the y-axis. Since a lower score is better, the dots push down further as time goes on. All entries that took the lead are colored red and the red lines marks the best score at any time. The sample entry is the leftmost red dot and the leader is the last red dot in the lower right.

Some of the leading entries are circled and labeled with the author's name. They show who was making the biggest improvements in score (represented in this plot as a vertical drop in the red line) at any point in the contest.

The improvement in score happens over a huge dynamic range. Early in the contest, it is easy to make big improvements in the score. As the algorithms get better, improvements become increasingly difficult. To show this, we normalize the scores so the best (smallest) score is 1 and the worst score is some power of 10. Then we plot them on a logarithmic scale. This exaggerates the improvements at the end of the contest. By increasing the number of decades we spread the scores over, we increasingly exaggerate the smaller improvements made at the end of the contest.

results vs. cpu time

One of the interesting aspects of the contest is that entries needed to minimize two things at once. Getting the best possible answer must be weighed against the time an entry takes to run. The entry's score is a combination of these two factors. Plotting these two against each other yields a very different picture of the contest.

The leader line is shown in red again in this picture. The gray contours show lines of constant score. In general, the best score is somewhere along the lower-left frontier of shortest time and lowest results. Algorithmic improvements tend to move down and to the right, and they are followed by tweaking battles in which the new algorithm claws its way back down the time axis.

Submissions Over Time

This area plot shows how the total number of entries grows. The green area represents the entries that passed the test suite, and the red area shows those that failed.

Activity by Hour

Each bar represents an hour's worth of entries. The contest has three major phases. The first day is in "darkness", where contestants can submit entries but they can't see any of the entries or their scores. To win this phase, an entry must be general and robust. The second day is "twilight", where we show the scores but not yet the code. This allows contestants to develop their algorithm without anyone else being able to leverage their ideas.

On the histogram, the darkness and twilight phases are the two boxes on the left. The other boxes and vertical gray lines call out other mid-contest challenges.

Participants per Day

We know that one participant may submit hundreds of entries. Let's look at the number of unique participants on each day of the contest.

Most active participants

This bar plot shows the number of entries submitted by our most prolific authors.

Entry length

This plot shows how many characters of code are in each of the leading entries. In regions where you see entries of more or less the same length there are very few differences from one entry to the next. In other places you can see the code getting shorter or longer. The density of the lines also shows how often the lead is changing. It's most impressive when shorter code takes the top spot, either by pruning unneeded computation or by introducing new algorithms. The red line at the top shows the cap on entry length.

Percent improvement

This is a plot of the percent improvement generated by each new leader relative to the previous leader. This lets us see who is responsible for the biggest changes over the contest. The upper frontier of this plot is a sort of hall of fame, and someone whose name appears there more than once managed to make several significant improvements to the score.

Improvements by day

Highlighting all the entries submitted on each day in red shows shows how the overall progression down and to the left. A black circle indicates the leader at the end of each day.