I don't know if you are familiar with the @liotes project or with their Wednesday challenges. Regarding the latter, challenges are often questions asked every week on Wednesday to which you can choose to answer or not. For that, you receive points to the Liotes ranking and usually upvotes at least from one of the project owners (usually from both). And a reply!
Some 6 months ago, the challenge was to post our Hivebuzz ranking based on HP, expecting to have a follow-up to see how this evolved over time.
This is a very good exercise many people should do, challenge or not, goals or not. Big changes are not visible from one day to the next, even from one week to the next, but after 6 months, enough time has passed to either notice progress or regress.
Yesterday, we were "challenged" to check again... So... let's do that.
I will check the rank by HP of my staking account, and then where would my rank be considering the total HP (not very relevant).
@gadrian-sp is ranked 437th by HP with 35,590 HP.
But if we add up the HP from my posting account (1,578), with 37,167 HP the rank would be 417th.
Of course, we can't calculate the ranks by adding the HP up because then the ranks of others would not be the same when they add up their accounts.
At the previous challenge, 6 months ago, this was my answer:
So, with my staking account, I advanced from 497 to 437. That's 60 positions higher, which is okay, although it would have been better to get into the Top 400.
A few things we need to take into consideration when we check this kind of ranking:
- one position doesn't mean one person, but one account; it is likely whales have multiple accounts high in the ranking by HP
- we compare individual with business accounts too (for example, Splinterlands, Leofinance, 3Speak, PeakD, Ecency, Liketu, etc.)
Anyway, I wanted to mark this moment in time with a post, as a future reference. I don't check my HP ranking very often, but I saw other people look at this as a point of reference, and it may be a way to gauge your own performance by comparison with others who are close by in ranking. Over time I learned that while sometimes is a good motivator to compare with others, you have the best results when you are focused on improving yourself.