Leap Prize and Sunday Push

November 14th, 2010

If you go to the bottom of the Statistics page, you see a colorful plot with two pink bands labeled “leap” and “push”. What do these refer to?

We like to acknowledge people who make significant contributions over the weekend, so we give prizes for the Saturday Leap and the Sunday Push. We give out a Leap prize for the person who makes the greatest single biggest contribution (percent improvement) on Saturday, as measured from 00:00 UTC to 23:59 UTC. That time period is over now, and the winner is Fel, with his entry TLM – save time and invest in result, which yielded a 2.85% improvement. We’d also like to give an honorable mention to Sebastian Ullman, who made a remarkable 2.64% improvement much later in the day with splitmin1500. It only gets harder to make big improvements, so congratulations to both Fel and Sebastian for their contributions!

The Sunday Push prize will be given to the person who makes the greatest cumulative contribution (based on the sum of percent improvements) to the contest. The period for this prize is midnight to midnight for the whole of Sunday, UTC. So this means it’s starting right now. If you’re the slow and steady type, now is the time to get busy!