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[Torgo]

Spoiler

I'm rising high and also get more knowledgeable with every image search.



Now I'm PREPARED.

Took only 6 weeks and 60+ official checks for the new rank! Love the image ..:

[monclivie]

[joachimt]

Haven't checked in a while, but it seems I'm still where I was months ago.
Closing in on seventhsamurai54 btw, who was top 10 once.

[Ebbywebby]

Caught Cippenham. A new all-time high rank for me.

[Torgo]

Spoiler

wp

You guys know local Board dude OldAle? I'm his relative now. In a way.




What's even more interesting, is: I always described Lonewolf as a relative in mind (or film taste) when it comes to prominent ICM users. For the course of my dubious Top 500 club project, I observed my rank and numbers rise .. and discovered him on the same page as me. (I think we used to be in similar regions, but then I paused for 3 years, as known). I was always curious if I will catch up or even make it to the overall Top 250 until everything is done ..
Now my journey has ended and I've started working on my large 2022 backlog, which means little to no official checks. This is how close I got.



Until 2023, maybe!

[Torgo]

I had the chance to look up my rank just a while after I joined ICM, which has been around the end of 2010.
I was baffled to see that I stood at .. #340.
5 years later, I rose up to #215.
5 more years after that, I'm at #339 AGAIN.

10 years of checking activities have been futile!

Note to myself:
#325: 69 checks needed
#300: 191 (!) checks needed
#275: 361
#250: 530
#222: 702
#215 (apparently my former best of all time): 755 needed

For future reference - 2 years later.
Of course a few lists have been made official in the meantime, while other of my checks disappeared (Box Office).

[sol]

I am at a new all-time high right now.

[nimimerkillinen]

looks like i was 220 in may, have been watching very little movies this year (and past 4 years) and even had 4 months break but back now


(236)

[MMDan]

Only 50 films to move up a spot

[maxwelldeux]

Is there a problem with the rankings at the moment? My ranking can't seem to be found...



(And yes, I've been waiting months to make this joke.)

[kongs_speech]

Is there a problem with the rankings at the moment? My ranking can't seem to be found...



(And yes, I've been waiting months to make this joke.)

Merry Christmas!

[Torgo]

Is there a problem with the rankings at the moment? My ranking can't seem to be found...



(And yes, I've been waiting months to make this joke.)

[gunnar]

I moved up to page 7:

[Arkantos]

I've cracked the top 10K

[Lakigigar]

I cracked top 20.000

#19124 - 966 checks - 709 official checks.
18421 in unofficial ranking

Top 10000 will happen at some point but not this year.

#17870 1016 checks - 737 official checks [was 23633 in early january 2021).
17103 in unofficial ranking

#16575 1059 checks - 769 official checks
16052 in unofficial ranking

#13891 1191 checks - 850 official checks
13575 in unofficial ranking

Well it goes slow, but over 2 years rose 10.000 spots in rankings so i guess that's okay.

Top 10.000 is at 996 official checks, so i guess when i'm there it will be 1000 official checks already (which would be 2 milestones), tho possibly new films being added to existing lists and new official lists might shake up things a bit, but I think that slightly benefits me in terms of overall rank.

[Ebbywebby]

The new official lists made me jump from an all-time high rank to a rank even four notches higher.

[kongs_speech]

That's Wurmple, Pokemon #265. I finish the year with a great rank, and I hope to easily crack the top 200 in 2023.

[Torgo]

YSK...
To greet the new year of 2020, there was a wurmple with a party hat available in Pokémon Go.
Niantic HAD to add it to the game after much pressure, such as this petition, because its inclusion in one of the app's loading screens was just too damn cute!

[Torgo]

Oh wow you're right, there ARE new rankings!
The following picture perfectly demonstrates what happened with mine:


In a mind-bending twist, I took over my eternal competitor Lonewolf by 5 ranks and 25 official checks. I didn't think that this would still happen with all my unofficial 2021/2022 viewings. .. oh.
I expect a couple of people to whore the hell out of the pre-1910s, so I don't plan on entering the Top 250 for good.

[Tasselfoot]

Jumped 5 spots with the update (go 1 min films on the pre 1910s list!) and rolled over into a new page:

[joachimt]

New lists gave me a push up, because I had already seen loads of pre-1910 shorts. This is the highest ranking ever for me.

[Leopardi]

Against all odds, I managed to keep my #17 ranking in 2022. I was expecting at least three peope to pass me, but almost all the key figures slowed down in the their checking so I managed not to slip in the rankings at year's end. Here's the breakdown:

- I started the year at #17 and stayed there until early March, when nbats passed me
- Tim reappears for a few weeks in May, knocking me temporarily down to #19
- Tim and Jeroeno reappear for a few weeks in August, knocking me temporarily from #18 down to #20, but around this time JamesCameronScholar goes dark, so when they both return to dark I actually wind up at #17, and that's where I stay for the rest of the year

So not a very exciting year, and for the third year in a row I finish the year at #17. It has now taken 956.4 official checks on average to advance each of the ranks from #22 to #17. Here are my updated stats:

Year	# checks gained	# official checks gained	Net official check gain	Pos. at start of year	Pos. at end of year	Max. Pos.	Min. Pos.	Range	Avg. Rank (polled weekly)
2012	~700	~600	--	70	49	70	48	22	55.5
2013	1198	968	-1652	49	30	50	28	22	40.7
2014	934	765	42	30	22	31	22	9	25.3
2015	742	892	-764	22	21	24	21	3	23.0
2016	623	442	-68	21	21	22	19	3	20.9
2017	822	585	291	21	20	22	20	2	20.9
2018	778	550	490	20	19	23	18	5	20.0
2019	769	594	268	19	18	19	16	3	17.2
2020	1063	809	-67	18	17	18	14	4	15.8
2021	702	416	78	17	17	18	13	5	14.6
2022	877	494	294	17	17	20	17	3	17.6

I've added a new column, 'Net official check gain', which is the difference between the official checks I've accumulated and those added by the site that year; positive values mean I've accumulated more official checks than were added by ICM. You can see, for example, that there was a massive expansion in official checks in 2013 (on the order of 20 new lists were adopted that year, and I think the big noir expansion may also have happened, too) which meant a lot of catching up to do and, ultimately, a net deficit of 1652 official checks by year's end. Similarly, the big deficit in 2015 was from (among other things) TSZDT's adoption.

The sum of this column is -1088, so in all the years I've been on ICM (disregarding those first few months where there's insufficient data) I haven't been able to keep up with the official checks being added (not a complaint, of course - it's great to have new lists!). Maybe in a few year's I'll pull ahead and move into positive territory, but if we have more list adoptions like the big one yesterday it may take a lot longer!

So what's the prediction for next year? It looks like there may be one or two people I could pass, and there's a bit of a gap behind me, so I'd say I'll wind up in rank 15-17 by the end of the year, barring any unexpected events.

2022 update

Somehow despite last year's very accurate prediction of what would happen this year, there still managed to be some surprises for me in 2021. I said that I would reduce my official check count to somewhere between 300 and 400, and wound up gaining 416 checks, although just two months ago I was on pace to gain about 340. I said that I probably wouldn't advance in rank by the end of the year (I didn't) and that I may have to pick up my pace near the end of the year just to maintain my ranking, and boy, did it seem like I had to do that, spending November and most of December chasing onuryz to hold onto my #17 ranking, only to be saved by my hero, Tim, when he went dark and gave me the last week of the year to relax a little bit. Tim, you're a lifesaver!

Despite the accurate predictions things didn't happen as I thought they would (they never do). Here's a point form synopsis:

- Pass rkzk on New Years Day, leaving me up by one in the rankings
- On the same day, January 16th, both xianjiro and Blueboybob go dark, leaving me up by three
- Spocksbrain goes dark in mid-February, leaving me up by four. At this point I'm thinking I'm bulletproof, my goal of maintaining rank for the year is in the bag
- In early May rkzk passes me, leaving me up by three. No problem, still lots of room to work with.
- In mid-August Spocksbrain reappears, leaving me up by two. Still looking good, I'd say.
- In the same week in early November, JamesCameronScholar suddenly reappears right as I'm passed by MMDan. I'm back to even on the year. Rkzk is on my tail and checking 2-3 official checks each day. Okay, now I'm in trouble.
- Frantically check shorter official films (this was the push behind my Runtime Challenge activity these last few months) to keep up with rkzk, and we bounce back and forth in the rankings until just before Christmas, when Tim2460 goes dark, allowing me to let rkzk pass me while maintaining rank.

That was a fun ride. I end the year with the same rank I began it, and the crazy stat I shared last year gets a little crazier: Since 2015, I needed on average of 857.6 official checks to advance each rank while moving from #22 to #17. Here are my updated stats:

Year	# checks gained	# official checks gained	Pos. at start of year	Pos. at end of year	Max. Pos.	Min. Pos.	Range	Avg. Rank (polled weekly)
2012	~700	~600	70	49	70	48	22	55.5
2013	1198	968	49	30	50	28	22	40.7
2014	934	765	30	22	31	22	9	25.3
2015	742	892	22	21	24	21	3	23.0
2016	623	442	21	21	22	19	3	20.9
2017	822	585	21	20	22	20	2	20.9
2018	778	550	20	19	23	18	5	20.0
2019	769	594	19	18	19	16	3	17.2
2020	1063	809	18	17	18	14	4	15.8
2021	702	416	17	17	18	13	5	14.6

In 2022 I predict everything will fall apart for me. For the first time it seems very likely that I'll fall in rank, year-over-year, especially since I intend to keep a relaxed viewing schedule like last year (300-400 official checks for the year, most likely) that would leave me with roughly 10000-10050 official checks by the end of 2022. Take a look at the key players and their checking rate over the last few months (averages were taken over November/December):

Username	Current rank	Average official checks/day	Estimated official checks at end of year
Fitz of Fury	12	0.1	10255
rkzk	13	2.5	10754
SanderO	14	0.9	10110
MMDan	15	3.2	10863
onuryz	16	3.0	10733
flavo5000	18	2.3	10194
nbats	21	10.0	12878
Dpka	26	4.5	10284

Everyone on this list exceeds 10050 checks (the upper limit of my range), so what this tells me is that, assuming their checking rates hold up, Flav, nbats and Dpka will all pass me in 2022. And I won't be able to catch anyone ahead of me to offset the deficit, so in all likelihood (and barring any surprises) I'll wind up down by three by the end of 2022. But if I were to speed things up (say, a little more than 1.5 official checks per day) I might stand a chance. I don't know how I'd do it (work is very busy and I am very tired), but since I'd like to keep the streak of never falling in rank year-over-year alive, I won't rule that possibility out, so I predict I'll be somewhere between #17 and #20 in rank by the end of next year.

2020 update

2020 started off with promise, jumping from 18th place to 14th in the overall rankings, and then fizzled out over the rest of the year, leaving me at 17th place by the end. Here's a detailed breakdown for those interested:

2020 in review

- Pass seventhsamurai54 on New Year's Day, rising to 17th place
- Pass thoughtrepellent and winds in the last week of January, the same week JamesCameronScholar goes dark, bringing me to my peak of 14th place
- Blueboybob zips past me in mid-March, dropping me to 15th place
- Spocksbrain shooots past me at the end of March, knocking me to 16th place
- Tim2460 leaves me in his dust in mid-April, and a few days later I pass jerry warton, so I hold steady at 16th place
- Except for a very short excursion in mid-August where I pass xianjiro for mayabe a day or two, I stay at 16th place until the last week of December, when rkzk passes me, leaving me in 17th place

Last year I presented what I thought was an astounding statistic, that I needed on average 765.5 official checks to advance each rank from #22 to #18. This year was no different, with a bump of only one rank after advancing 809 official checks, bringing the average up to 774.2. If I were to gain this number of official checks per year I'd complete all currently official checks in a little over nine years, and if this quirky fact somehow held up I would still only be in 17 - 9 = 8th place.

Another interesting fact (again, maybe only to me): I checked 809 official checks, and yet the site increased its official check total by about 876 in 2020 (due in part to some big changes including the expansion of the box office and Cinema Tropical lists, and the adoption of the Pinoy list, which added 81 new checks all by itself), meaning I actually lost ground in absolute terms this year, the first time that's happened since 2015 when a whopping 1656 new official checks appeared (this was the big TSZDT adoption year).

Year	# checks gained	# official checks gained	Pos. at start of year	Pos. at end of year	Max. Pos.	Min. Pos.	Range	Avg. Rank (polled weekly)
2012	~700	~600	70	49	70	48	22	55.5
2013	1198	968	49	30	50	28	22	40.7
2014	934	765	30	22	31	22	9	25.3
2015	742	892	22	21	24	21	3	23.0
2016	623	442	21	21	22	19	3	20.9
2017	822	585	21	20	22	20	2	20.9
2018	778	550	20	19	23	18	5	20.0
2019	769	594	19	18	19	16	3	17.2
2020	1063	809	18	17	18	14	4	15.8

So what's to come in 2021? I pledged to slow down my movie watching, and while it'll take some time to adjust, it also means I won't be racking up numerous official checks next year. If I had to guess, my total will drop from the 500-600 I've come to expect the last few years down to 300-400. I'd like to keep to my streak of never falling in rank over a calendar year, but that might be tough this year. I'm only within reach of rkzk and xianjiro, realistically, and if I slow down it seems very unlikely I'll catch them. Meanwhile thoughtrepellent may well pass me at the rate he's checking now, so I'll predict I hold steady in 2021, possibly pushing to achieve this late in the year if I need to (and am able to), just to keep the streak alive.

2019 update

2019 for me can be summarized with just a few rank-related events, most of them not of my own doing:

- In the first few days of 2019 I passed rkzk, bringing me to 18th place
- In mid-May thoughtrepellent (AKA Cobac AKA Fori) went dark, bumping me to 17th place
- At mid-year I passed winds and reached my highest ranking to date, 16th place
- Right around Halloween thoughtrepellent returned from the dark and knocked me down to 17th place
- In mid-November winds suddenly came to life after nearly three years of inactivity, checking hundreds of titles and kicking me back to 18th place, my current position

So in the end I've moved up one place in 2019. Here's a year-by-year breakdown for me:

Year	# checks gained	# official checks gained	Pos. at start of year	Pos. at end of year	Max. Pos.	Min. Pos.	Range	Avg. Rank (polled weekly)
2012	~700	~600	70	49	70	48	22	55.5
2013	1198	968	49	30	50	28	22	40.7
2014	934	765	30	22	31	22	9	25.3
2015	742	892	22	21	24	21	3	23.0
2016	623	442	21	21	22	19	3	20.9
2017	822	585	21	20	22	20	2	20.9
2018	778	550	20	19	23	18	5	20.0
2019	769	594	19	18	19	16	3	17.2

Looking at the last five years (to cherry-pick some stats by using the end-of-year numbers), I've gone from #22 to #18 by adding 3062 official checks or, in other words, on average I needed 765.5 official checks for each rank I advanced (using the average rank column it's a slightly more reasonable 527.9). The front page is not for the faint of heart! As for next year, if blueboybob and Spocksbrain continue checking the way they have been, they'll pass me easily, while there are two or three ahead of me that have been taking it easy of late, so all in all I think I should be able to advance one or two positions in 2020, with a bit more turbulence than I had this year.

[Torgo]

Of course Tim had to go bright and mess with all our rankings again
Go check your performance on the new lists and RETURN INTO THE DARKNESS, you unbeliever of gamification!

[Tim2460]

I did wait the start of the year not to mess up with Leopardi Stats

[Lakigigar]

If you gain 500 official checks just to remain 17th and started your ICM journey back in 2012 already at the 70th spot, that's very impressive. This site is so overwhelming because i think the rankings make it a fun part but it's like hard to "get somewhere", i've not even been able to get in the top 10.000. I don't know exactly where I was when i made an ICM account for the first time, but I think it was outside the top 30.000. I assume i probably am able to get to top 10.000 this year (if i don't slow down again somewhere later this year) and in a few years top 5000 maybe, given I need 500 new official checks +- for top 5000 (and 140 for top 10.000).

EDIT: I found a post on MM. It said 40.000+- early 2016. Granted my pace is also slower than most ICM users here, but surprised to see that i was even ranked this low once.

[Ebbywebby]

The new official lists made me jump from an all-time high rank to a rank even four notches higher.

Boy, was my glory short-lived. I'm already back to #95 and expect to be #96 soon.

[Torgo]

Same here! I guess some of the competition sat like vultures in the trees of rankings, waiting just for a new official list full of 1 minute shorts ..

[OldAle1]

I had the experience of my new checks for the new lists seemingly not being counted and I plunged to #68 a few days ago, then #70 the next day - and then a couple of days later, boom, I jumped to 65, the highest I've been since last summer at least. Still 2 or 3 off my high and last I checked all but one of the people within 10 ranks ahead of me were rating pretty actively, so I suspect this will be my high-water mark for a while - not too many of those 1890s-1910s official shorts left to watch and I don't know how much official stuff I'm gonna watch in the near future otherwise.

[kongs_speech]

I fell back down to 267, but I'm working hard to get them back and then some.

[Knaldskalle]

At a pace of 1000+ movies per year, you'll be top 50 in no time. I'm at 208 currently, which is the highest I've been in a couple of years. At my peak I hit 150 for a brief while, but then ran out of steam (went from ~400 movies per year to less than 150). I'm not focusing on overall ranking any longer, just trying to get my enjoyment of movie watching back.

[Leopardi]

If you gain 500 official checks just to remain 17th and started your ICM journey back in 2012 already at the 70th spot, that's very impressive. This site is so overwhelming because i think the rankings make it a fun part but it's like hard to "get somewhere", i've not even been able to get in the top 10.000. I don't know exactly where I was when i made an ICM account for the first time, but I think it was outside the top 30.000. I assume i probably am able to get to top 10.000 this year (if i don't slow down again somewhere later this year) and in a few years top 5000 maybe, given I need 500 new official checks +- for top 5000 (and 140 for top 10.000).

EDIT: I found a post on MM. It said 40.000+- early 2016. Granted my pace is also slower than most ICM users here, but surprised to see that i was even ranked this low once.

Ha, I don't know if anyone should be impressed, really I'm just playing the tortoise and hare game, I'm the tortoise plodding along and seeing how far I can get, no big deal. I agree, it can be a real uphill battle getting up there in rank, especially now that we have a larger collection of users with years on the site occupying the higher spots, but I think some of us (yeah, probably me, too) get a little caught up in the obsession - I know I've watched plenty of films that I wasn't really that interested in just for the check - so it's not all it's cracked up to be, to be honest.

I did wait the start of the year not to mess up with Leopardi Stats

I only just saw this now - thanks for having my back! I was paranoid all of November/December that someone above me would reappear, it's good to know you're watching out for me.

[nimimerkillinen]

Spoiler

looks like i was 220 in may, have been watching very little movies this year (and past 4 years) and even had 4 months break but back now


(236)

at 5000th official check now and at spot 217. still some way to ~178 i was at some years ago

[beasterne]

Just hit 3000 checks on ICM with a watch of Three Thousand Years of Longing. Also very close to a top 1500 ranking on the site (currently at 3001 checks and rank #1504).