Hi downtowndan,

The latest statistics which SNURK provided (as far as I'm aware), was on the 19th of Jan - as can be seen here

So, yes - there's at least 1 person who's achieved X-Sapphire, and if you've been a regular visitor to these boards, it shouldn't take a genius to work out who that massive contributor is

Thanks for creating this thread.
I'll be happy to read all about crunchers reaching new globe levels. We're crunching for a good cause, so why not have a bit of fun while doing it.
Now to remind you here's what this thread is all about:



Everyone who's familiar with the WCG badges will recognize the bronze, silver, gold, ruby, emerald and sapphire colors. The color of the globe is determined by the average run time per science project. That's your total run time (including Beta run time) divided by the total number of science projects ever launched here at WCG. At the moment of this post that's 17 projects. The Beta project is not counted as a science project.
I have introduced 2 extra levels above the sapphire level to keep every cruncher happy (and greedy ).

Globe's can be found on the forum signature that I created and is available to all crunchers who want one. Request yours in this thread if you like to have one.

Nasher has very kindly created this table that shows how much total run time is needed to reach each new globe, for the current project count of 17, plus for a future project count of 18, 19 and 20:

................. with 17 projects ... 18 projects ... 19 projects ... 20 projects
bronze(14 days): ....... 239 days ...... 252 days ...... 266 days ...... 280 days
silver(45 days): ...... 2.09 years .... 2.22 years .... 2.34 years .... 2.47 years
gold(90 days): ........ 4.19 years .... 4.44 years .... 4.75 years ....... 5 years
ruby(180 days): ....... 8.38 years .... 8.88 years ..... 9.5 years ...... 10 years
emerald(1 year): ........ 17 years ...... 18 years ...... 19 years ...... 20 years
sapphire(2 years): ...... 34 years ...... 36 years ...... 38 years ...... 40 years
III-sapphire(6 years): . 102 years ..... 108 years ..... 114 years ..... 120 years
X-sapphire(20 years): .. 340 years ..... 360 years ..... 380 years ..... 400 years


I'm currently at the gold level, crunching my way towards ruby. I've got a long long way to go, but sure as heck* am I going to reach it..
Crunch on, and enjoy.

*edited to appropriate forum language - ErikaT

More than I wish to count Look at the members stats and sort by total run time and any user with at least 102 years of run time would qualify for X-Sapphire.