Do you have the Guiness Book of Records? I don't, to be honest I have never quite understood the fun of all those ridiculous records. Er...that is, until I realized I myself was also busy breaking some crazy limit. I often play the mahjongg game called Kyodai on the computer. First, I had trouble enough getting rid of all the stones of the pyramid, but when I managed that I started to try to do it as fast as I could. After a long time I reached the point where I could do it in 2 minutes. I never thought I would ever be quicker than that, but yes one day I managed to do it in less and one day I managed to do it in less than 1.50, then 1.40 and at the moment my personal record is 1.31. Why am I doing this? I have no idea. (It's not ADHD or OCD or EH nor has it anything to do with my creativity ) It's just that when it goes real fast, it's as if my mind is totally empty of any thought and my hand is moving all by itself, it's a wonderful feeling.
Do you hold any special record? Please enter in the Hatrack Book of Records.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
This certainly isn't a world record, but I have yet to hear that anyone I personally know has beaten my best Minesweeper time: 87 seconds on Expert level.
(I've actually been looking for a way to ask people's minesweeper scores around here; thanks ginette.)
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
I got 76 seconds on Expert Minesweeper; there are others on the Web who claim faster.
Honestly, I averaged 110-130 seconds consistently on completed Expert at my height... This was just a fluky board.
-Bok
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
See, I knew there'd be better minesweepers out there than me. I haven't gotten in the 80's in a long long time, although in my peak I was pretty consistently in the 95-105 range.
I also have never met anyone who has a head with a greater circumference than mine. I've met one person who tied.
[Edit: I did know that there were faster minesweepers out there. I found a website with a bunch of people in the sub-minute range. I just didn't know any of those people.]
[ September 22, 2003, 07:28 PM: Message edited by: saxon75 ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I have an inordinately large head. Do we go literally "head to head," or do we get to go off percentiles since I'm female and you're male?
Posted by ginette (Member # 852) on :
I am sorry about your minesweeper record saxon. See, all the others out there do not count, it's a Hatrack book of records, so until now only Bokonon has beaten you. Just that one time.
And large heads do not count. That is your mother's accomplishment, to get you out like that, not yours .
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
I have a 53% win rate at Freecell on the computer.
And this is with over 1000 games played.
msquared
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
I went to the bathroom and got back to our room in 23 seconds. And I washed my hands!
(my roommate started timing me in the beginning of the year)
[ September 22, 2003, 08:16 PM: Message edited by: Toretha ]
Posted by Damien (Member # 5611) on :
most deaths....
~D~
Posted by Head Ditch Digger (Member # 5085) on :
M^2, my average is 78% with over a thousand games. Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
Are you for real on that?
What are the secrets? How do you win so many?
I have had times where the kids will open several games and then close them, giving me a lot of losses in a row. I have talked to them about that.
My longest win streak is 15 games and my longest losing streak, with the help of the kids, is 11.
msquared
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Aw. I thought this was a thread for Hatrack records, as in records relating specifically to Hatrack. *pout* I'm pretty confident that I still have the longest post.
quote:I also have never met anyone who has a head with a greater circumference than mine. I've met one person who tied.
I'd be willing to bet my head has a larger circumference. Too bad we didn't compare when we had the opportunity.
Oh, wait . . . you meant . . .
quote:I have a 53% win rate at Freecell on the computer.
And this is with over 1000 games played.
On my old computer, with over a thousand games played, I was somewhere in the mid-sixties.
I have SO burned out on that game . . .
um . . .
I have unusually high standardized test scores, but I get thwacked every time I brag . . .
Posted by Head Ditch Digger (Member # 5085) on :
My longest streak is 32 wins. then I lost a few.
*the seceret: Log out of windows if you are about to lose. It does not mark against you.*
It works, but I did it once and not on my long streak I had already blown that. A co-worker and I had a running challange to see who could win the most. at times we would start the same game at the same time to see who could finish faster. I am good with puzzles. His runnig score was 86%.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
That could also be said for me, (that I get good scores on standardized tests) but JaneX tromped me when it comes to the PSAT, so I can't talk...
Edit to clarify
[ September 22, 2003, 09:31 PM: Message edited by: Ryuko ]
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
Oh so you cheat.
No wonder you are mafia.
msquared
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
You think, Icky? I don't know, I used to ramble a lot. Some of my old genocide posts and death penalty posts were pretty darn long. Of course, they are gone now. Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
At one point, on my old computer, I had 1922 consecutive winning games of Freecell. I've still got the screenshot somewhere. Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Oh I don't think any of your posts even come close. The only one I recall seeing that came close was one by Redskull (sp?) describing a hellish trip to Epcot.
Posted by Maccabeus (Member # 3051) on :
I don't seem to have been able to ever beat 142 seconds on expert level. (Though I might have done it on another computer.) I don't know how you guys do it.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Yeah, but you should have seen what I posted back before you joined. Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
"one time i took my ice skate off and tried to stab a guy int he neck. i was the only guy ever to do that." -Adam sandler; happy gilmore
Posted by Sal (Member # 3758) on :
Tom! Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
This was something like 12 pages in Microsoft Word.
Posted by Polemarch (Member # 3293) on :
Though I wonder- who here has the highest post count? Is there a way to find out?
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
I know! Actually, I just pasted it and after taking out the smilies (which were like lines long) it was 7,924 words and 9 pages!
[ September 22, 2003, 09:39 PM: Message edited by: Kayla ]
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Polemarch, I'm pretty sure it's Tom, though Bob Scopatz is only about a thousand behind him.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
O_o 8,000 words? Doesn't Hatrack cut it off at some point?
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
I think Icarus wins in this thread for bawdiest post ever made. Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
(rereads) I second that... O_o
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
If that's not posturing, I don't know what is.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
What posture would you like me to assume?
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I ate 30 (natural)oysters in one sitting at a seafood buffet..
I thought that was pretty good till I talked to a guy who lived around there: apparently all the locals go on saturday night and the current record is around *200*.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I rode the Gravitron 17 straight times one afternoon when I was in high school.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I watched 12 star trek episodes in one day...
Not sure i should be proud of that one though.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Sax and Annie,
y'all might have me beat in the head size department now, but I'll bet your baby pictures don't match up to mine.
Somehow or other, my body kinda "grew into" my head.
[ September 22, 2003, 11:03 PM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
Posted by BelladonnaOrchid (Member # 188) on :
I believe I qualify as Hatrack's friendly neighborhood witch. Does that mean I hold a record in being a friendly neighborhood witch? Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
O_O WAAAHHHH! Mutant baby!!
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
::burns Belladonna::
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Ryuko,
Kinda - more like hydrocephalic baby.
Not that I don't feel like a mutant a lot of the time...
[ September 22, 2003, 11:09 PM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
Posted by unohoo (Member # 5490) on :
Way back in the bad old days, before PC's when most of the computer options were these humongous main frames, I was programming one of the few minicomputers, and let me tell you, it was primitive. First, it had only 4K of memory, and that was core memory (teensy magnetized donuts of core), the only programming language available was assembler, and it didn't have any floating point arithemetic funtions, and to boot the computer up, you had to hit a series of toggle switches that were arranged in octal. Anyway, a group of us had a challenge to write the smallest program possible that would actually do something, such as write a pattern through the computers memory (oh, and the only storage media on this puppy was paper tape that you punched and read back in through a teletype device, which was the only interface to the computer besides the switches. I wrote a one word program that stored a register in the next address in memory. The register contained the octal code to store itself in the next address in memory. When the program ran the flashing lights on the front panel made it look like it was burning up. Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Sorry sn, but what's that?
Posted by BelladonnaOrchid (Member # 188) on :
::Turns Icarus into a newt:: I'll only turn you back into a human if you tack back the burning. Trogdor and Celia are the only two aloud to burn/inate me.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*takes the burning*
*attaches it to the wall with tacks*
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Ryuko,
Let me give you the short, plain language version.
It's what used to be called "water on the brain."
Your brain sits in a bath of spinal fluid. This fluid is constantly being produced and reabsorbed, maintaining a constant pressure. Sometimes, this balance can be disturbed. When it happens in infants, the head grows, since the growth plates in the head haven't fused and the skull is soft.
In my case, the doctor who delivered me caused heavy bleeding in using forceps. As it turned out, the bleeding damaged the tissues that reabsorb spinal fluid in the skull.
My head grew, my brain got kinda spread out and squeezed.
I was one of the very first infants to be treated with a device called a shunt, a tube that goes through the right side of my brain and into the cavities underneath the brain (ventricles). The other end of the tube drains into an artery near my heart.
That's just one cause for hydrocephalus - there are lots of others.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
I have the most nth threads. And I believe the Hug thread is just a few dobies short of the most dobie'd thread, standing at 9 total dobies that I can find, not including one that used to be on Grenme.
Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
Imogen, I have beat that, many fold.
I have watched an entire season in one day, all 25/26 episodes.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Well, ginette, it looks like everyone's kinda ignored your original comment - which was about mahjongg. I certainly was addicted to it for awhile, but never came close to the time you mention here. There are a lot of different versions of the game, though.
side note: I think my 16-year-old son has the record for most watching/re-watching of M*A*S*H episodes (he has them all on VHS). He does M*A*S*H marathons all the time. Wish I had his life.
Farmgirl
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
I rode the Hurricane roller coaster at Circus World 35 times in one day.
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
I watched The Two Towers 4 times on opening day. I was at the theater at 9:00AM and did not leave until around 2:00AM the next morning.
msquared
Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
I've probably seen Caddyshack more times than anyone here. My dad's been showing it to us since we were little.
Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
I just set a new record for myself yesterday: a one-minute-and-twenty-second handstand.
ginette- I get that same empty mind feeling when I play tetris. I used to have a pretty high score on that, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Circus World!
Wow!
::wist::
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
I was wondering if anyone here even remembered that place.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Sn: O_o I'm glad you're all right now...
Posted by asQmh (Member # 4590) on :
quote:side note: I think my 16-year-old son has the record for most watching/re-watching of M*A*S*H episodes (he has them all on VHS). He does M*A*S*H marathons all the time. Wish I had his life.
Can I hold the record for most M*A*S*H re/watching in adulthood? 'cause I also balance a nifty full time (and more) job, and a reasonable social life, yet somehow managed to watch a season or two at a time when the moment presents itself. If I didn't have roommates, I'd probably never watch anything else. ^_^
Q.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
I've sold more blackberries than anyone here.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
I have several hundred buttons - ranging from political to all kinds of humor. The collection actually dates to the late 1960s. I have most of them mounted on the wall in our living room.
PS - Ryuko, if you're curious, the webpage listed in my profile has more info on that condition, some of what I do and more of my large-headed baby pictures.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I'm not positive, but I think I may have the most tribute threads in a 20 minute period.
I once peed for 76 seconds. (Was that over the top? I can never tell.)
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
yeah, and you probably don't put the seat down either. sheesh. men.
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
Wow saxon. You could write a whole sentence in the snow.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I'll bet that I'm the only person here who has ever acted out So I Married an Axe-Murderer in its entirety, doing all the parts, and getting all of the lines right. I did it to distract my wife from the fact that she was deleriously sick when we were in another country and and she was too sick to move.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
He could, zgator, but his cursive sucks, so no one would be able to read it.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
quote:I once peed for 76 seconds. (Was that over the top? I can never tell.)
The real question is, according to another thread, did it all go into the bowl?
Hmmm, let me think... Doesn't the volume of fluid flowing at a given rate through a pipe depend on the pipe diameter?
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
My expert Minesweeper record is 59 seconds. Intermediate is 19, beginner is 3.
All this past summer, every weekend, I watched all five Star Wars movies back-to-back (to back and so on).
I can hold my breath for over two minutes. I can also do this seven times in a row with ten seconds in between. I don't like to do this, but I can.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
@ Sal
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
(peeks at Carrie's post count...) LANDMARK!!!
Also: I probably own over 1500 dollars worth of manga, anime, and books about Japanese culture, all collected over four years on an average salary of 900 dollars per year... Is that a record?
Edit: (soundly whips Sal for saying lude things about her sensei)
[ September 23, 2003, 01:12 PM: Message edited by: Ryuko ]
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
I think I hold the record for summer job with the most zany stories--I'm a swim instructor, I teach kids from three to fifteen.
I also think I hold the record for watching 'Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie' the most times. I can seriously quote the entire thing... Both movies.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:yeah, and you probably don't put the seat down either. sheesh. men.
Actually, in my house, I'm the one that chides Juliette about leaving the lid open. Actually, that's not true. She's long since learned to close it when she's done.
quote:The real question is, according to another thread, did it all go into the bowl?
Not applicable; I was at a urinal.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:soundly whips Sal for saying lude things about her sensei
Juliette spells "lewd" that way, too. I think it's absolutely adorable.
Man, I seem like an ingrate, pointing out spelling in a post defending my honor. It's just that Juliette and I have had several conversations about the word that I just found hilarious. And I think that spelling is way cuter than the real one.
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
So you have had several conversations about lewd (lude) behaviour with your new wife.
Newlyweds are so cute.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I think that spelling of behavior is so cute!
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Actually, most of those conversations happened before we got married.
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) It's just that when it goes real fast, it's as if my mind is totally empty of any thought and my hand is moving all by itself, it's a wonderful feeling.![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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The only one I recall seeing that came close was one by Redskull (sp?) describing a hellish trip to Epcot.
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@ Sal