With the growing number of ideas and bakers, someone will eventually hit the million-word mark. All the rest of us shall then get together and present the person with a new keyboard, which he/she will probably badly need.
It will probably be Vernon.-- DesertFox, Feb 22 2006 A sample of his work 12864The entire page has 23,602 words, including other baker's annos. [DesertFox, Feb 22 2006] Currently leading (an estimate, though not really) is Vernon, with about 300,000 words. I finished the C's before I quit copying and pasting. About 31,000 words, + annos. So roughly at 31k being approx. 1/6th of his ideas, and assuming similar wordage amounts, he probably has about 186,000 words in ideas, and probably about 100,000 in annos.
Wow.-- DesertFox, Feb 22 2006 Encouraging wordiness, are we?-- Shz, Feb 22 2006 No.-- normzone, Feb 22 2006 "-- spidermother, Feb 22 2006 -- Shz, Feb 22 2006 I had to hit Page Down as many times to read that, as the number of keystrokes I normally use to type a message!-- phundug, Feb 22 2006 what [normzone]said and [sm] dittoed and [Shz] didn't say.-- xandram, Feb 22 2006 [DesertFox] help me understand where you're getting these numbers from?-- jonthegeologist, Feb 22 2006 Go to a vernon idea, copy from top to bottom, then do a word count in MSword or wordperfect.-- shapu, Feb 22 2006 If someone hits the million word mark, my vote would be to take his/her keyboard away, not give him/her another one!-- DrCurry, Feb 22 2006 Indeed. I just copied and pasted all of my ideas, and I'm at a pathetic 13,600. Lucky for my ego, that doesn't include titles, summaries, or annos, which might put me over 15,000.-- shapu, Feb 22 2006 [jtg] copying and pasting his text from his ideas from #'s to the letter C. 30 ideas before I got bored (1/6 of his total ideas), at an average of 3,100 words per idea, not counting titles and subtitles.-- DesertFox, Feb 22 2006 On the other hand it could be [FarmerJohn]. His ideas are far less verbose but there are almost 5 times as many of them. Copying and pasting 764 ideas isn't my idea of a day well spent though.-- hidden truths, Feb 23 2006 Whenever I catch myself digging up these sort of stats from the 'bakery I try to find something more constructive to do (I have a long list).-- wagster, Feb 23 2006 OK so, yeah, I just got sucked into the rabbit hole that is the 12864 idea. ...30 minutes later...-- Zuzu, Feb 23 2006 [DesertFox] You can probably make a fairly accurate extrapolation from that #-C count you've already done.-- shapu, Feb 23 2006 [ht] Very true.-- DesertFox, Feb 23 2006 Instead of copying and pasting into word to do your word-count, there ought to be some shell-script that can be run in unix (possibly using a combination of 'curl' and 'wc') that would be able to automatically measure a user's contribution.-- zen_tom, Mar 30 2006 Average novel has 80,000 to 100,000 words.-- bristolz, Mar 30 2006 halfbakery