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A total of 13 responses have been made, and to no surprise at this point, Kobold84 has won again! With sadave, a first-timer and Reihynn taking 2nd and 3rd respectively. Karmine seems to be having a bit of a dip. 5 players in total participated for the first time.
Here is the full leaderboard:
Kobold84 - 92.680 pts - 1st
sadave - 89.514 pts - 2nd
Reihynn - 72.570 pts - 3rd
Bridget Enjoyer - 71.868 pts - 4th
rynxelia_ - 70.680 pts - 5th
buregrnfat - 69.133 pts - 6th
Silicosis 2 - 68.267 pts - 7th
legitify - 66.463 pts - 8th
Light_Palette - 62.554 pts - 9th
nominomu - 60.848 pts - 10th
McEndu - 58.257 pts - 11th
Karmine - 53.014 pts - 12th
MusicRitman - 43.845 pts - 13th
(Past victors get fancy italics now)
The full spreadsheet:
List of currently unspent tokens (in fractions)
Kobold84 - 49/12
Karmine - 325/216
Dementedduck - 5/4
Blushing - 1
rynxelia_ - 11/12
Farfocele - 5/6
sadave - 2/3
Reihynn - 5/8
lenpai - 3/8
Lapizote - 1/3
Bridget Enjoyer - 1/4
Corne2Plum3 - 7/72
McEndu - 19/216
abraker - 1/12
burgernfat - 1/12
nominomu - 5/72
Silicosis 2 - 5/72
TomisNotGood - 1/24
Manishh - 1/24
legitify - 1/24
MusicRitman - 7/216
Nuuskamiikkunen - 1/36
Light_Palette - 1/36
Karmine - 325/216
Dementedduck - 5/4
Blushing - 1
rynxelia_ - 11/12
Farfocele - 5/6
sadave - 2/3
Reihynn - 5/8
lenpai - 3/8
Lapizote - 1/3
Bridget Enjoyer - 1/4
Corne2Plum3 - 7/72
McEndu - 19/216
abraker - 1/12
burgernfat - 1/12
nominomu - 5/72
Silicosis 2 - 5/72
TomisNotGood - 1/24
Manishh - 1/24
legitify - 1/24
MusicRitman - 7/216
Nuuskamiikkunen - 1/36
Light_Palette - 1/36
Information (Skim through if you haven't)
How to Play
A lot of you have probably viewed the Week 1 thread, but just as a refresher and to make some changes, here it is again.
From Week 2 forth, 15 words will be provided with their respective audios, each containing an example sentence. The audio will be read by either a General American Male TTS, or a British Female TTS.
Players then guess how each word is spelled and submit them in a Google Form. A few extra instructions are included there as well. If you guess incorrectly, I then manually check your guess and calculate your guess accuracy syllable-by-syllable. More information on that in §Scoring.
Regarding alternative spellings: If an alternative spelling is not due to the differences in NaME and BrE and is used way less frequently than the conventional, it will be considered erroneous. Take this in mind when dealing with possible alternative spellings.
After every fortnight (literally, 14 nights) has passed, the form will close at around Friday 4PM GMT, and the scores will be tallied up in a spreadsheet, where the winners are determined.
A new round starts at around Saturday 4AM GMT.
Please don’t discuss your answers with people who haven’t guessed, or in public. Don’t post your answers here either. Please don’t deliberately try to cheat, in ways such as Googling, speech to text, etc. It makes it unfair for other people, and highly against the spirit of the challenge, or anything in that matter.
Prizes
The top users of each round will receive some amount of tokens.
1st - 1 token.
2nd - 2/3 tokens.
3rd - 1/3 tokens.
4th - 1/4 tokens.
5th - 1/6 tokens.
6th - 1/12 tokens.
7th&8th - 1/24 tokens.
9th&10th - 1/36 tokens.
>10th - 1/216 tokens.
Tokens can be redeemed for supporter tags,or a bunch of other random useless stuff. You can also gift other people tokens by DMing or posting below. Listed below. Post what else you’d like to see!
Supporter tag - 1 token per USD.
Scoring
Each word has a point value ranging from 5 to 10, calculated with this formula:
If you guess correctly, you get that amount of points. Simple. But if you don’t, then no worries, because you can still get some points for guessing as accurately as possible. The maximum value for incorrect guesses is calculated as follows:
How many points you get is determined separately.
Accuracy calculation can be best explained with an example.
Word #10 of week #1’s event was ebullience.
If you guess something like “eboliance”, you won’t just get a flat 0 any more. Instead, you’ll get an accuracy score.
Comparing your guess and the answer per syllable, we get:
Syllable 1: e | e - Correct.
Syllable 2: bul | bo - 1/3 correct.
Syllable 3: lience | liance - 5/6 correct.
2 letters are incorrect, and 1 letter is missing.
In the end, your accuracy will be 5.5/10, or 0.55. All the extra syllables will be omitted, but please keep your guesses within reasonable length. In addition, extra, missing, or incorrect letters in a syllable count as -0.5 correct letters.
How to Play
A lot of you have probably viewed the Week 1 thread, but just as a refresher and to make some changes, here it is again.
From Week 2 forth, 15 words will be provided with their respective audios, each containing an example sentence. The audio will be read by either a General American Male TTS, or a British Female TTS.
Players then guess how each word is spelled and submit them in a Google Form. A few extra instructions are included there as well. If you guess incorrectly, I then manually check your guess and calculate your guess accuracy syllable-by-syllable. More information on that in §Scoring.
Regarding alternative spellings: If an alternative spelling is not due to the differences in NaME and BrE and is used way less frequently than the conventional, it will be considered erroneous. Take this in mind when dealing with possible alternative spellings.
After every fortnight (literally, 14 nights) has passed, the form will close at around Friday 4PM GMT, and the scores will be tallied up in a spreadsheet, where the winners are determined.
A new round starts at around Saturday 4AM GMT.
Please don’t discuss your answers with people who haven’t guessed, or in public. Don’t post your answers here either. Please don’t deliberately try to cheat, in ways such as Googling, speech to text, etc. It makes it unfair for other people, and highly against the spirit of the challenge, or anything in that matter.
Prizes
The top users of each round will receive some amount of tokens.
1st - 1 token.
2nd - 2/3 tokens.
3rd - 1/3 tokens.
4th - 1/4 tokens.
5th - 1/6 tokens.
6th - 1/12 tokens.
7th&8th - 1/24 tokens.
9th&10th - 1/36 tokens.
>10th - 1/216 tokens.
Tokens can be redeemed for supporter tags,
Supporter tag - 1 token per USD.
Scoring
Each word has a point value ranging from 5 to 10, calculated with this formula:
wordValue = 10 - 5 * correctGuess / totalGuess
If you guess correctly, you get that amount of points. Simple. But if you don’t, then no worries, because you can still get some points for guessing as accurately as possible. The maximum value for incorrect guesses is calculated as follows:
wrongValue = wordValue * (1 - 0.5*averageAccuracy)
How many points you get is determined separately.
wrongPoints = wrongValue * accuracy
Accuracy calculation can be best explained with an example.
Word #10 of week #1’s event was ebullience.
If you guess something like “eboliance”, you won’t just get a flat 0 any more. Instead, you’ll get an accuracy score.
Comparing your guess and the answer per syllable, we get:
Syllable 1: e | e - Correct.
Syllable 2: bul | bo - 1/3 correct.
Syllable 3: lience | liance - 5/6 correct.
2 letters are incorrect, and 1 letter is missing.
In the end, your accuracy will be 5.5/10, or 0.55. All the extra syllables will be omitted, but please keep your guesses within reasonable length. In addition, extra, missing, or incorrect letters in a syllable count as -0.5 correct letters.
Week 1 - Kobold84 & Farfocele
Week 2 - Kobold84
Week 3 - Karmine
Week 4 - Kobold84
Week 5 - Kobold84