"Nick M V Salmon" <spam_dump@btinternet.com> wrote

"Raj Rijhwani" <raj@rijhwani.org> wrote

spam_dump@btinternet.com "Nick M V Salmon" wrote:

Rank is re-assesed in realtime - try sending a single
result in. ;-) The 'more than X% of users' figure is
re-assesed against a total number of users that only
increases every few hours...

Ah yes - but that could simply be your *apparent* rank, relative to
the last statically assessed positions.  Otherwise you have a lot of
potential shifting and shuffling to do with just the return of one
unit.

True.  A way to test that one would be check my rank every hour
or so and see if I move downward - I'm far enough up the list it
should change quite quickly methinks.

Hokay, looks like you're correct Raj - rank is very probably
assesed against a static table produced every X hours; I checked
my 'rank' at UK midnight with 19,328 results & at UK 1:40am with
the same number of results - my rank remained the same at 4,097
& I'm listed as the only person with that rank - it seems likely that
at least some folks close under that rank have sent a bunch of results
in since midnight & passed me thus my rank ought to have dropped.

I'll check again later on without sending any results in to see how
long it is before there are any changes...

With the same 19,328 results, at 7:40am UK my rank had dropped 3 places to
4100th place - I then sent in 24 results and my rank went back up to 4091st
place - the 'static table' that 'rank' is assesed against must have been
rebuilt between 1:40am & 7:40am UK time...

Ciao...

[UK]_Nick...