Yesterday I switched to running 100% C4CW and expect it to take a couple of days to finish other projects in the queue.
I need 27 days of run time to get Emerald, should have that in a couple of days.
I need 392 days of run time to get Sapphire, should have that in about 25 days.

Oops! Moved a Cat5 cable and left network activity suspended overnight.
Probably lost 4-5 days of run time.
Tempted to increase overclocking to make up for it.
However, I have 4 Sapphire badges on my wish list and can wait until I get them to experiment with XPM and additional overclocking.
Should have all 4 by early May.

Your competition is team Decrypthon a partner in the HCMD2 project.
They had about 8,000 members at one time.
They are located in Paris, France.
They have one member Hypernova that has 16 i7s mostly -980s.
Each i7-980 has 6 cores and hyper threading, so he alone could have about 192 cores.
Tough to compete with them.
Good luck..

yes if i had hypernovas computing power i could be done with a year in like 3 days or less...

I'm just trying to get enough for the highest badge currently available...

nasher, you can do 1 year in about 28 days, which isn't bad.
If you need less than 299 days you can do it in 23 days.
I'm cheering for you.

One thing I don't like about WCG is that we must compete with corporations, universities, and IT guys with access to 100s of computers.
It is not a level playing field.
When I see a cruncher with all Sapphire badges I know they didn't buy that processing power out of their own pocket.
I relate more to individuals that do the best they can with whatever resources they have.
It is good for WCG to have power crunchers but I wish they competed amongst themselves.
Before I came to WCG in 2007 I was crunching at United Devices.
It was no different there.
I do the best I can with the resources I have and if I get a lot of blue badges so be it.
Will not lose any sleep over this.
And I do not envy any cruncher that can do better.