Well, That Was Interesting...

In the first six months of 2012, there have been:
18 LJDQs
112 questions asked
119 quizlings who went, played, and took quiz
1348.1124 quotages given to those quizlings by the Great and Powerful Quizmods, meaning that
74.8951 quotages were given, on average, to an average attendance of
35.1111 quizlings, which comes to about
2.13 quotages per quizling.

Doncha just love numbers? :D

Okay, here're the Top 5 (or so) in each of the major category stats for you fellow quizlings from LJDQs whose answers were given between 1/1 and 6/30 of 2012.

Want to know where you rank? Ask me.
Think I screwed up? Tell me.

Any constructive feedback is helpful, positive feedback is appreciated, and cash is perpetually welcome.

( And now, more numbers! )

Here's the aggregate list of stats from the last 6.5 years of LJDQ goodness, for the period ending 12/31/10. The dates listed are those of when the answers were given.

I extended the lists of individual stats in order to recognize those who went, played, and took quiz, but never got into the rankings of any individual year. Top 20s all around!

( And now, the culmination of thousands of enjoyably misspent hours )

Well, the numbers are all in, the quotages have been tabulated, the streaks are counted, the sums are summed, the averages are averaged (no mean feat *rimshot*), and the yearly stats have been separated.

So far, here are the stats I have planned:

Quizzes (overall and by year)--
--Total number of quizzes
--Total number of questions
--Average quotages per quiz
--Average number of quizlings quoted per quiz
--Greatest number of quotages for a quiz
--Greatest number of quizlings quoted for a quiz

Individual Quotage (or IQ, if you will)--
--Most quizzes quoted
--Most quotages
--Quality: greatest average quotage, when quoted (Quotage on min. 25% of total quizzes required)
--Longest quotage streak
--The Five Quote Club (non-Grande quiz only)

I also have the Grande quizzes (more than 7 questions) stat-i-fied. Hey, some people paint better with a larger canvas. The overall stats will be skewed slightly high because of these quizzes, but since they only make up 5% of all the quizzes (15 of 319 as of 12/31), then skew it--errr, screw it, I'm including them in the overall stats.

Did I miss anything?

I'm hoping to be done this weekend, latest, but I should have them up for perusal by Friday. Depends on what diversions life hands me in the next few days.

When this is done, I plan to highlight the purged/removed usernames, just to see how many active quizlings we've got out there.

One stat that may make you go 'hmmmmm'--there were only 310 quoted quizlings (because I have no idea how many actually played) in '10, as opposed to 504 in '09. That's a decrease of 38.5%. Quizling amounts have been fairly fluid, and it may be just a case of people leaving and returning to the quiz, like catching up with an old friend. The quoted quizling count dropped 17.1% from '05 to '06, and and another 14.9% from '06 to '07, before blazing back with a 30.2% increase in '08. And the number of quoted quizlings more than tripled in the first year alone, from about 250 in '04, to over 800 in '05.

All in all, this was a nice little month-long obsession, but I'm glad it's finally done. Now I can catch up on writing my own trivia questions, being a month behind in that little task and whatnot...

Go. Play. Take quiz.

First off, if keeping score on the LJDQ spoils the experience for you, you might wanna surf elsewhere.

*waits*

So, I figured what better time than year's end to play with the LJDQ's stats a bit, amirite?

Okay, first, the basics:

710 quizlings have now earned a bonus and/or a minus
608 quizlings have earned a plus
291 have earned a minus

Subjects earning a +1 bonus: 721

The top subjects earning a +1:

1. The Simpsons: 53
(Last rank: 1)

2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail: 42
(Last rank: 2)

3. Monty Python's Flying Circus: 32
(Last rank: 3)

4. South Park: 27
(Last rank: 4)

5. The Princess Bride: 24
(Last rank: 5)

6. Blazing Saddles: 19
(Last rank: 6)

7 (tie). Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 17
(Last rank: 7)

Spaceballs: 17
(Last rank: 10)

9 (tie). Airplane!: 15
(Last rank: 11)

Punning: 15
(Last rank: 8)

The Tick: 15
(Last rank: 9)

Completing the Top 20:
12 (tie):
Finding Nemo
Ghostbusters
Going old school
Star Wars: Episode IV

16 (tie):
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Conan the Barbarian
Monty Python's The Life of Brian

19 (tie):
Animaniacs
Firefly
Futurama
Pulp Fiction
Weird Al

New to the rankings:
Conan the Barbarian (for the same quote. Every. Single. Time)
Pulp Fiction
Weird Al

Falling off the radar:
Terry Pratchet/Discworld
Back to the Future
Calvin and Hobbes
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Lyrics
SNL

The minuses remain fairly unchanged, top to bottom, but Captain Planet is moving up the neg charts with a bullet.

Geek of the Week Awards: 95
I tell ya, we need to come up with a special prize for the century mark.

And now, the quizling stats:

There are currently 37 quizlings who are in the Double Digits Club, earning +10 or more in bonuses.

The Quizling Top 20
1. Why, it's me, i_calql8! (54, +6 since last record, up 1 in ranking)
2. astridsdream (52, +0, down 1)
3. thepikey (31, +3, no change)
4. etcet (29, +5, up 1)
5. sskipstress (28, +2, down 1)
6. (tie) squeegibo (20, +6, up 3)
6. (tie) umbralcorax (20, +0, no change)
8. (tie) blindgeoff (18, +4, up 1)
8. (tie) fizrep (18, +0, down 1)
8. (tie) marasca (18, +0, down 1)
11. (tie) akiyasan (17, +4, up 3)
11. (tie) drbear (17, +4, up 3)
13. (tie) cholma (16, +5, up 9)
13. (tie) wiredwizard (16, +3, up 1)
15. (tie) babybokal (15, +2, down 1)
15. (tie) cmzero (15, +1, down 6)
15. (tie) n5iln (15, +3, up 5)
18. (tie) spatialrift47 (14, not ranked previously)
18. (tie) woap (14, +0, down 9)
18. (tie) zihuatanejo (14, +1, down 4)

The Clean-Living Squad (most +1s with no minuses):
1. cholma, 16
2. n5iln, 15
3. zihuatanejo, 14
4. (tie) deza, 11
4. (tie) kristinmachina, 11

Please keep in mind that these stat involve bonuses only, not total quotage.

I figure this little statfest should be a yearly thing, so the changes from year to year are much more noticeable.

Any questions about where your favorite topic landed, bonuswise? You have but to ask.

In the words of Messrs. Bartles and James, thank you for your support.