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Cryptograms.org
Topic Started: May 1 2008, 05:06 PM (440 Views)
jdege May 1 2008, 05:06 PM Post #1
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 The website Cryptograms.org offers bunches of simple cryptograms to solve, and runs a monthly contest ranking winners by the total number they break, their percentage of success, and their average time.

Truthfully, I find it kind of tedious to do as many as necessary to get in the rankings. I did it for one month, last fall, and figured that would do it for the duration. But they had a HD crash a couple of months ago, and lost all their old data. So I had to do it again.

It's May, now, and the rankings for April are up.

I'm in 8th place by points, 740197, compared to a top score of 1791679 accomplished by someone who has even less of a life than I do.

I'm in 18th place by success rate, solving 99.46% of the cryptograms I attempted (2585 solutions in 2600 attempts.)

I'm in 5th place by speed, average time of 59.3 seconds. Truthfully, I'm not all that impressed by the top scorers here. They managed average times considerably faster than mine, but had success rates of under 80%. If I'd skipped the more difficult ones, I'd have had a faster average time, too. It's Digirl who blows me away. She not only managed a faster average time, she did it while achieving a 100% success rate.


http://www.cryptograms.org

Well, at least it's over, until their next HD crash.
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
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Revelation May 1 2008, 06:41 PM Post #2
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by someone who has even less of a life than I do

LOL

Nice job! It's probably very time consuming to crack all those ciphers.
We should start a challenge too, with only playfair and ADFGVX ;)
RRRREJMEEEEEPVKLWENFNVJKEEEEEAOLKAFKLXCFZAASDJXZTTTTTTTLSIOWJXMOKLAFJNNKFNXN
RAGRBAQEMHIGDJVDSEOXVIYCELFHWLELJFIENXLRATALSJFSLCYTKLASJDKMHGOVOKAJDNMNUITN
RRRRLJVEEEEECLYVYHNVPFTAEEEEEMWLMEIRNGLARWJAKJDFLWNTIERJMIPQWOTZEOCXKNUBNXCN
RJIRPOWEANFUSNCZVDVZNMSFEKLOEPZLDKDJWSAAAAAAAOERHJCTNCKFRIMVKSOFOMKMANREWNBN
RZUDRGXEEEEENFQIDVLQNCKNEEEEEDGLLLLLLAWIOSNCDARLODMTOEJXMILDFJROTKJSDNLVCZNN
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jdege May 1 2008, 09:18 PM Post #3
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May 1 2008, 12:41 PM
Nice job! It's probably very time consuming to crack all those ciphers.

2585 cryptograms * 59.3 seconds =
153290 seconds =
42.5 hours

Gads, what a waste of time :'D
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
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