Hi there!
Recently after Codeforces Global Round 21 Um_nik noticed that he might be the ninth or tenth person to reach 3600 rating points, but still he did it earlier than Petr. I wondered whether Um_nik really was that attentive to know for sure how many people reached 3600 before him. As this is an objective truth or an objective misconception, I decided to simply check it. After several hours of programming and abusing Codeforces API I am ready to state that Um_nik was indeed correct — he and jiangly both broke through the 3600 mark simultaneously, being the ninth and tenth person to achieve it. I wanted to get more interesting facts from the fetched information — for example, although Petr's maximum is 3597 and he hasn't got to 3600 so far, he was the second one to get to 3550 points, and this took place almost four years earlier than the Um_nik's analogous achievement.
I built the following table. In the first column there are milestones, and in the following columns there are the first, second, ..., tenth persons to get at least that many rating points, along with the specifics about the participation in the contest preceding the achievement. If two or more people crossed the line on the same day, they are compared by the rating achieved after the contest and by rank in the contest.
This table is another one humble remainder how really mighty tourist and Petr are: tourist never left the first column starting with rating 2250 in October 2010, and Petr is in the first or the second entry of the majority of the rows.
Sadly, I'm far from being the god of HTML and layout design, so this may seem kind of clumsy (for example, the table might be overlapping with some Codeforces interface elements), sorry for that. If you have ideas on improving the appearance of the table, or on more convenient way to visualize the data, please share them in the comments.
The last but not the least, I must confess that some of the cells still might be wrong. There are hundreds of thousands of users here on Codeforces, and I have fetched only around top-20000 by rating. It's still trendy to draw stalactites with rating graphs by deliberately sucking in several consecutive contests and performing a totally unexpected comeback afterwards (check vintage_Vlad_Makeev's or 300iq's graph for more details, even though they may argue that they failed in contests for real), so I might have missed a strong person who is just pretending to be a submarine.
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Wow! Just a testament to how great tourist is...
Maybe you should mention worse for being first at reaching negative rating milestone...
Negative milestones is a great idea! However they require fetching all 440000 users, this is not done yet.
God tourist!
I found Gassa in the table! :D
With looking at only 20,000 current top performers, that may well be wrong, since some early participants perhaps didn't cross that threshold.
The users are sorted by their final rating, so it's not important whether the early participants have crossed the threshold, but whether they ended above it.
Codeforces should add the title "tourist" after LGM.
And it happened today xD
May jiangly be the first to reach 4000? :o
oh shoot I just realized jiangly is +1000 rating higher than me... ;(
Everything is possible, but obtaining +347 rating points is a very, very long road.
tourist has done it!!!
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and the only one to reach > 3800. legend tourist
tourist is all alone after 3750 which shows how consistent he is. Though this post intrigued me to check what is the lowest rating ever at codeforces and I found from the rating table it is -49. I never knew we could have negative rating at codeforces
Possibly there had been a lower rating at some point, but it's hard to determine without actually going through all accounts...
News on interdimensional cable: tourist -s of parallel universes are jealous of our worlds tourist !
Is my only my device if everyone's device that table is overflowing here across top-contributor.
approx. 71% of 1st position are covered by tourist .. orz
What Happens When You Use 100 Percent Of your Brain ?
You Become tourist
Now add 4009 also
Good blog, and now it's time to update tourist on 4000 milestone. Also there are other missing, like jiangly as the third user to break 3750 3800 3850.
tourist tourist EVERYWHERE !
You should update this blog to include the new max ratings of users. For example:
jiangly is missing from the 3700, 3750, 3800, and 3850 rows. Benq is missing from the 3800 row. Radewoosh is missing from the 3750 row.
tourist reached 4000, you need to update his section
Now this blog is a trash since it doesn't contain 4000 by tourist.