GameKnot: GameKnot related, Puzzle stats wish.

GameKnot related: Puzzle stats wish.

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extremo
02-Mar-19, 12:53

Puzzle stats wish.

Puzzle solved, congratulations! and then the statistics:

Rate this puzzle's difficulty » (one to five stars)
- Nominate for a Daily Puzzle (checkbox)
Puzzles solved excellently: (some integer s)
Puzzles solved without using hints: (some other integer s1 >= to s)
Average number of wrong moves: (decimal rounded to one decimal place)
Total puzzles tried: (some other integer s2 >= to s1)

My wish is for the Average number of wrong moves to displayed unrounded so you can see if your solving efficiency is improving or not. Thanks.

yon_cassius
04-Mar-19, 12:30

I guess Gameknot would have to round the results to some degree due to some outliers solving/failing to solve many problems... two decimal places doesn't sound unreasonable to me, though - this is a totally uninformed opinion, though - more than two decimal places wouldn't seem relevant, though - again... my opinion is uninformed...

extremo
04-Mar-19, 14:49

gameknot.com
Shows over 600 users who have solved over a 1000 puzzles (and the top 20 at over 20,000 each). For these people four or five decimal places would be needed to see any change as they solve 3 or 4 puzzles in a row.

Now that I look again I don't know what the "Average number of wrong moves" is. Is it based on solved excellently, solved without using hints, or puzzles tried (s, s1, and s2 above)? There is no pop up "?" beside it to explain.

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