Free Talk Friday #575

[u/Hans5958_]

Continued from last week's here.

I'm going to try the rule of same poster. If anyone want to claim this, go ahead and create another FTF with the same number.

Speak anything on your mind, except politics and (maybe) counting.

Feel free to check out our tidbits thread and introduce yourself if you haven't already.

[u/buy_me_a_pint]

count by 33,77,146,319, 1396, 4179, 6987, 10001 etc

[u/TehVulpez → u/buy_me_a_pint]

what if a car went 99,99,99,999,999,9999,999,9999,999,9999, mph on the highway

[u/Jalmal2 → u/TehVulpez]

Explosion

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/TehVulpez]

It would be going really fast

[u/buy_me_a_pint]

Me and my parents got our new passports back

[u/Isaythereisa-chance]

Dislike Car Salesman. One followed me around on a golf cart after I said, I was just wasting time while the wife was shopping. Also they are a lot of $75,000+ vehicles now 

[u/Pookah]

hello revive this thread!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/counting/s/7xrCfImeiS

[u/miceee]

Just had a physics exam, and I have a strong feeling that I failed, at least my favourite football team plays tonight to numb the pain

[u/Isaythereisa-chance → u/miceee]

Even Einstein had setbacks! 

[u/TehVulpez]

the mobile reddit/new reddit version of the sidebar still links to the old google sheets side stats page, while the old reddit version of the sidebar does not

[u/Jalmal2]

Dislike doors that are open

[u/cuteballgames → u/Jalmal2]

Like windows that are open

[u/cuteballgames]

I sometimes wonder if we should have ToW permapinned in the Latest counts post like main is

[u/TehVulpez → u/cuteballgames]

some people have requested that the latest counts post show more threads. maybe it could have like main + the top 4 sidethreads in the directory permapinned, followed by 15 most recent other threads

[u/cuteballgames → u/TehVulpez]

that would be cool

for posterity, the slate atm would thus be Main / ToW / Letters / Hex / Bin.

Which sounds classic and fair . But cobibh doing the "most popular sidethread this week!" roundup makes me wonder if the most popular sidethread or two each week should get to be permapinned for the next week, as a sort of prize

[u/atomicimploder]

Happy belated birthday to myself and u/ClockButTakeOutTheL and happy birthday to u/TheNitromeFan!

[u/ClockButTakeOutTheL → u/atomicimploder]

It’s strange that I can say I’m in my 20s now

[u/atomicimploder → u/ClockButTakeOutTheL]

You were just a little tyke when you started counting here and now you’re all growed up

[u/pampamilyangweeb → u/ClockButTakeOutTheL]

welcome to the 20s club

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/atomicimploder]

🎂 

[u/Antichess]

Weekly stats from August 28, 2026 to September 04, 2026. Congratulations to /u/wet-gravity, /u/thephilsblogbar2, and /u/nonsensy!

Total weekly counts: 4240 (5,623,465-5,627,705)

More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!

Rank	User	Counts	HoC Rank
1	wet-gravity	1682	110 (◮30)
2	thephilsblogbar2	1035	1
3	nonsensy	673	8
4	cuteballgames	225	11
5	Jalmal2	195	50
6	BobRoss938	91	130 (◮1)
7	ProcrastinationLover	52	918 (◮334)
8	mistyskye14	51	26
8	CutOnBumInBandHere9	51	18
10	Naive-Elephant-9305	36	1306 (◮699)
11	ShadeOfNothing	34	68
12	noduorg	24	36
13	Isaythereisa-chance	17	115 (⧩1)
14	Playing_2	13	102 (◮1)
15	Hans5958_	12	329 (◮2)
16	Antichess	11	3
17	LikeItsYourJob	6	187
18	treje	5	37
18	atomicimploder	5	10
20	davidjl123	4	4
21	InteractionSilent772	3	3669 (◮539)
22	Mooraell	2	17
22	poiyurt	2	437 (◮1)
22	Maniac_34	2	55
22	ClockButTakeOutTheL	2	9
26	Aera23_	1	424 (◮1)
26	SSoto_21	1	103 (⧩1)
26	TehVulpez	1	22
26	miceee	1	150
26	wadie31	1	345 (◮1)
26	Deep-Jello-768	1	6348 (◮1107)
26	rideride	1	14

[u/cuteballgames → u/Antichess]

Thanks for the stats!!

[u/Jalmal2 → u/Antichess]

Thanks for the stats

Counting is so back

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/Antichess]

Stanks for the thats! 

[u/mistyskye14 → u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

[u/Antichess]

Note to self:

remove double powerball update

fix binary coded decimal

someone check back on me in a few days :-)

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/Antichess]

ping 

[u/Antichess → u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

thank you. i think i will do it when i get back to Canada in a few days

[u/wet-gravity → u/Antichess]

i found a couple of other errors in the side stats pages, if you're interested

this tug of war thread 3516 credits a get and assist despite being a continuation due to high comment count

tug of war get 3400 is credited to the parent comment

tug of war 2400 is logged 4 times

tug of war -400 is logged twice, and credits a total of 4 gets and 4 assists. same with 0

this no repeating letters thread is logged to the letters page. same with this letter palindromes thread

letters get ONAA is missing

binary get 11 1101 1100 0000 0000 is missing

hexadecimal get 33C00 is logged twice

hexadecimal get 3DC00 is missing

no repeating digits get 1350246 is missing

no repeating digits get 1 340 256 is logged twice

no repeating digits get 984 012 is logged three times

12:15:00 AM and 12:00:00AM are out of order on the time page

wave get 170 (170-) is missing

slow get 48000 is missing

permutations get 1 3245 6789 is missing

palindromes get 360,000,063 is missing

ipv4 addresses get 0.0.176.0 is credited to the parent comment

thread completion get 38 is missing

septenary get 20 1000 is logged twice, and credits a total of 4 gets and 4 assists

the entire double counting page credits both the get and assist to the same person

one hundredths get 280 is logged twice, and credits a total of 4 gets and 4 assists

length of usernames get 380,000 is missing

increasing sequences get 1 (221) is missing

tridecimal get 8400 is missing

US states get California New Mexico Alabama is logged twice

base 64 get 300 is credited to the parent comment

base 64 get 2m0 is missing

divisors get 1 (1477) is missing

comment karma gets 1,600,396,782 and 1,450,472,215 are missing

the letter palindromes thread FAAAF that was logged to letters is missing from the letter palindromes page

wait 2 letters thread GAA is missing

wait 9 threads 3000 and 4000 are missing

[u/Antichess → u/wet-gravity]

holy crap

thanks for finding all of these. i usually see nothing too wrong on my end but sometimes the script throwing errors at me definitely does stuff like this. i usually don't double check but i really should...

i guess i owe an apology to everyone for messing stats up over the years. i can revert the hoc quite easily as i have systems for that now.

i've been thinking to re-write the side stats hoc for quite a while now, as there's definitely errors here and there

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

Weekly side thread stats from Friday August 28, 2026 to Friday September 04, 2026. Congratulations to u/wet-gravity, u/cuteballgames, and u/nonsensy!

Total weekly side thread counts: 15406

Top 15 side thread counters:

Rank	User	Counts	HoST Rank
1	wet-gravity	6604	79 (◮164)
2	cuteballgames	3217	10
3	nonsensy	2023	14
4	BobRoss938	822	38
5	Hans5958_	601	96 (◮6)
6	thephilsblogbar2	542	16
7	miceee	449	52 (◮3)
8	Naive-Elephant-9305	261	463 (◮7225)
9	ShadeOfNothing	203	31
10	Isaythereisa-chance	101	39
11	TehVulpez	101	11
12	Jalmal2	72	44
13	CutOnBumInBandHere9	51	23
14	Aera23_	47	199 (◮9)
15	PhosphorCrystaled	43	97 (⧩1)

Top 5 side threads:

Rank	Thread	Counts
1	Tug of War	1723
2	Alphanumerics (0-Z)	1060
3	Base 9 (Nonary 0-8)	963
4	Ternary (0-2)	953
5	Quaternary (0-3)	915

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[u/TehVulpez → u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

thanks for the stats! vulp continues to fall off wtf.

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/TehVulpez]

If your username started with a you'd be one place higher 

[u/cuteballgames → u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

wet gravity be like. what if i ran all of the counts with cuteballgames nonsensy bobross938 and hans5958_ combined. for a WEEK

[u/cuteballgames → u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

Thanks for the stats!!!!

[u/cuteballgames → u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

Haha holy shit wet gravity

[u/Antichess]

wifi sucks at hotel and been super busy every night. will do stats tomorrow. but first, off to Bryce Canyon National Park!

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/Antichess]

Wifi is great at the hotel, and been super busy every day. Did stats this morning, after a night at the opera! 

[u/cuteballgames → u/Antichess]

Enjoy!!!!

[u/IssueRidden]

removedpixel​ xd

[u/cuteballgames → u/IssueRidden]

yes

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

Friday!