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It’s Not About the Numbers, Really

I came across a fun little website for geocachers the other day. If you really want to know the story behind your geocaching stats, this site is for you. Aimed at premium Geocaching.com member, It’s Not About the Numbers, generates a good picture of your habit with a pocket query for your finds. If you’re looking for some trivia to drop at that next cocktail party, you’ll have that and more with this handy site. Here are my stats.

Total: 361 finds

Total days since first find: 810 – Overall find Rate: 0.45/day, 3.12/week

Total days with a find: 114 (Every 7.1 days or 14.1% of your total days) – Average finds per caching day: 3.17

Best day: 8/05/07 – 9 finds

Most consecutive days with a find: 5 from 8/04/07 to 8/08/07

Longest caching drought: 62 days from 8/19/08 to 10/19/08

Average total cache difficulty: 1.77 – Average total terrain rating: 1.99

Average physical cache difficulty: 1.79 – Average physical terrain rating: 2.02 (Traditional, Multi, Unknown, Project APE, Letterbox)

Approximate cache-to-cache distance: 5474.18 miles (8809.83 kilometres) (Excludes locationless and known traveling caches)

Active Caches: 269 of the caches you’ve found are still active (74.5%)

Average log size: 25.7 words – Biggest log: 157 words – Shortest log: 3 words – Number of one-word logs: 0

 Its Not About the Numbers, Really

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August 20th, 2009 at 6:08 am


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