Grindstone Olympics
Grindstone 2 is currently used by 4,870 users in 63 countries.
In the interest of further cultivating an international community of Grindstone users, we have made many changes to Grindstone to make it more "multiculturally" accommodating;
from closely adhering to the user's culture's date, time, and number formatting, to the inclusion of full Unicode text encoding support, to the recent addition of the ability to use multiple currencies.
With that in mind, we developed a usage statistics portion of Grindstone that anonymously collects general information about your culture and computer in order to inform our decisions about how best make improvements in all your interests.
One big example of how this is helping is that we're learning how to best prioritize our upcoming translation efforts to make Grindstone's interface available in multiple languages.
When considering the statistical information being reported back by Grindstone installations all over the world, we realized we had an opportunity to make keeping track of your time fun and productive on a user community level.
By facilitating a little friendly competition relying upon this statistical data, we feel it will both help motivate you to keep track of your time and to help everyone by inviting your friends to do the same.
May the nation with the most productive Grindstone users win!
Scoreboard
| | Country | Score |
|
1.
|
United States
| 167,498.8 |
|
2.
|
United Kingdom
| 30,591.7 |
|
3.
|
Canada
| 15,073.9 |
|
4.
|
Germany
| 11,309.3 |
|
5.
|
Sweden
| 8,815.7 |
|
6.
|
Australia
| 8,485.9 |
|
7.
|
Poland
| 8,000.7 |
|
8.
|
Ireland
| 6,422.9 |
|
9.
|
France
| 6,096.5 |
|
10.
|
Netherlands
| 5,679.9 |
|
11.
|
Russia
| 5,332.5 |
|
12.
|
Spain
| 4,652.4 |
|
13.
|
Denmark
| 4,323.2 |
|
14.
|
New Zealand
| 4,131.1 |
|
15.
|
Slovenia
| 3,948.6 |
|
16.
|
Portugal
| 3,707.8 |
|
17.
|
Czech Republic
| 3,649.1 |
|
18.
|
Belgium
| 3,212.2 |
|
19.
|
Mexico
| 3,032.0 |
|
20.
|
South Africa
| 2,700.4 |
|
21.
|
Finland
| 2,659.6 |
|
22.
|
Italy
| 1,611.0 |
|
23.
|
Norway
| 1,583.0 |
|
24.
|
Hungary
| 1,467.5 |
|
25.
|
Brazil
| 1,335.6 |
|
26.
|
Chile
| 1,283.0 |
|
27.
|
Switzerland
| 1,174.9 |
|
28.
|
Israel
| 1,072.4 |
|
29.
|
Austria
| 1,047.4 |
|
30.
|
Estonia
| 1,011.0 |
|
31.
|
Ukraine
| 912.0 |
|
32.
|
Iceland
| 751.3 |
|
33.
|
Argentina
| 692.4 |
|
34.
|
Venezuela
| 682.7 |
|
35.
|
Bulgaria
| 657.0 |
|
36.
|
Latvia
| 629.8 |
|
37.
|
Slovakia
| 581.9 |
|
38.
|
India
| 392.0 |
|
39.
|
Korea
| 316.6 |
|
40.
|
Japan
| 278.4 |
|
41.
|
Greece
| 244.9 |
|
42.
|
Costa Rica
| 228.8 |
|
43.
|
Uruguay
| 217.8 |
|
44.
|
Croatia
| 213.8 |
|
45.
|
Zimbabwe
| 196.6 |
|
46.
|
Qatar
| 183.4 |
|
47.
|
Malaysia
| 128.5 |
|
48.
|
Turkey
| 98.2 |
|
49.
|
Lithuania
| 74.0 |
|
50.
|
People's Republic of China
| 47.5 |
|
51.
|
Romania
| 33.9 |
|
52.
|
Republic of the Philippines
| 17.0 |
|
53.
|
Taiwan
| 13.7 |
|
54.
|
Serbia
| 9.3 |
|
55.
|
Catalan
| 8.0 |
|
56.
|
Indonesia
| 4.1 |
|
57.
|
Hong Kong S.A.R.
| 4.1 |
|
58.
|
Colombia
| 2.0 |
|
59.
|
Luxembourg
| 1.0 |
|
59.
|
Nicaragua
| 1.0 |
|
59.
|
Panama
| 1.0 |
|
59.
|
Trinidad and Tobago
| 1.0 |
FAQ
Q: How are the scores calculated?
A: Obviously calculating the scores involves a large degree of math and had to be carefully calibrated.
It may, in fact, be recalibrated from time to time.
We thought it best not to reveal the exact details because some uncompetitive users out there might attempt to exploit them.
We don't want anyone to ruin the fun. =)
All you need to know is that the following things are considered, and balanced against each other:
- How many profiles you use
- How many custom fields you use
- How many rates you use
- How many tasks you have
- How much time you've tracked
Q: Are there any prizes?
A: Prestige for you and your country, of course. =)
Q: Does Epiforge compete?
A: Given the very large amount of testing we do internally, we have devised ways of exempting our activities in doing so from being considered in the scoring. We believed it was only fair, and believe you will all agree.
Q: Why is the image for my country's flag broken?
A: When new countries enter the competition, we have to create the flag images manually. If this happens for your country, please contact support and let us know. We'll remedy the issue immediately.
Feel free to submit more questions about The Grindstone Olympics to support if they're not answered here.