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[GPLRank] Amazing what competition can do

2 posts by 2 people · 27 Jun 2000 21:32 UTC - 27 Jun 2000 22:21 UTC

Ace 27 Jun 2000 21:32 UTC#259654
I watched in despair: I was one of the first to submit to GPLRank, and I remember being euphoric, as I was No. 75 in the world. Ha! As time went by, more and more people displaced me, till I was well down the order... Until Now, because I finally chipped away a few seconds of my PB at the 'Ring, doing an 8:27~. "Right," I thought, "and I can go faster there as well...but not tonight- there's only so many laps you can do before the brain melts". Exporting my Ring setup I swapped the gear ratios, and revisited that old bugbear of mine, Mexico, and managed to eke out another 1.8 seconds, after only 10 laps or so! So, my handicap is now 5.19, whereas it was 10.13, and damn it feels good! I'd pretty much layed of GPL recently, but GPLRank inspired me to dig a little deeper. It's just like one big qualifying session in a way. It's been said before, but GPLRank is fantastic, and a big thank-you to everyone who's worked on it! -- -Ace-
Don Scurlock 27 Jun 2000 22:21 UTC#259665
[email hidden] (Ace) wrote in <8jb6hm$7ff$[email hidden]>:
Quoted text (17 lines)>I watched in despair: I was one of the first to submit to GPLRank, >and I remember being euphoric, as I was No. 75 in the world. Ha! As >time went by, more and more people displaced me, till I was well >down the order... Until Now, because I finally chipped away a few >seconds of my PB at the 'Ring, doing an 8:27~. "Right," I thought, >"and I can go faster there as well...but not tonight- there's only >so many laps you can do before the brain melts". Exporting my Ring >setup I swapped the gear ratios, and revisited that old bugbear of >mine, Mexico, and managed to eke out another 1.8 seconds, after only >10 laps or so! So, my handicap is now 5.19, whereas it was 10.13, >and damn it feels good! >I'd pretty much layed of GPL recently, but GPLRank inspired me to >dig a little deeper. It's just like one big qualifying session in a >way. It's been said before, but GPLRank is fantastic, and a big >thank-you to everyone who's worked on it! >-Ace-
Thanks Ace. Uwe Schuerkamp is the man who did it all. There are now 600 people in the main list and over 800 entries overall, so where you are now is probably a pretty good indicator of where you really do rank world wide. -- Don Scurlock Vancouver,B.C. GPLRank -1.90 Come see how you rate, at the GPLRank site http://newgplrank.schuerkamp.de/

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