I was wondering how our entire word count fared with other regions.
Well, being a small country, our total wordcount was still in the thousands where other places like London and Sydney were well into millions. However, we aren't that bad actually.
If you imagine every single word we wrote placed out in an area (i.e. number of words per square kilometer)
Here are the stats
Singapore 931 words per square km
Malaysia 0.799 words per square km
Sydney 127 words per square km
London 1977 words per square km
(Word count as of 10th Nov, 1620 GMT, Area estimates taken from Wikipedia)
So, we are churning out almost 8 times as many words than people in Sydney and only twice as slow as Londoners. (Haha, self-consolation)
Alright! 20 more days to go!
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53,677 / 50,000
nov. 10, 2007 - 18 05
I think English people are fundementally more verbose than other nationalities? Just from everday speech they're polite to a fault haha. Yep another attempt at self consolation.
50,011 / 50,000
nov. 10, 2007 - 20 59
That's actually pretty good. Now I wonder how the word count compares per capita.
50,751 / 50,000
nov. 11, 2007 - 10 24
Well, these are the figures for words per capita
Singapore 0.169 words per person
Sydney 0.406 words per person
London 0.460 words per person
(correct as of 11th Nov 07)
I guess it is not too bad. After all, English is the primary language Australians and English use.
18,198 / 50,000
nov. 11, 2007 - 22 22
I wonder if its that other countries have nanowrimo done in school. But its cool that we aren't too far behind when you look at it that way.
50,011 / 50,000
nov. 11, 2007 - 22 45
I wonder also it the London and Sydney WriMos are actually in London and Sydney, or what is defined for population and sqmile purposes. Somebody living in Kent or Surrey might affiliate with London because they work in London and are more likely to attend a write-in. Same with Sydney's outer suburbs.
I will always find a way to push up Singapore's NaNo standing :D
I see the author search is back online at last. I'm going for a browse.
Some time later...
Just had a look in the author search and it's only by author name so far, not the usual list of options. Well at least it's a start!
50,751 / 50,000
nov. 14, 2007 - 09 29
1 million words! (Well almost =p)
Yay! Singapore is reaching our first million words, and its not even halfway yet!
50,011 / 50,000
nov. 15, 2007 - 03 35
I found the new word count widget and as of 6.30pm Singapore time we are:
110 in the world rankings, 3rd in Asia after Japan and the Philippines, with 953,463 words (which I'm sure will reach 1mil by tomorrow), an average of 12,223 words per WriMo with total donations to NaNoWriMo of US$75.00.
50,613 / 50,000
nov. 15, 2007 - 07 36
Well, I know for a fact that Valerie is responsible for one-tenth-ish for what we're all writing, and that thought is pretty scary. *coughs* Well, good to know that we're going fine though,
50,011 / 50,000
nov. 15, 2007 - 19 52
rozen is co-ML for Singapore
I was sort of counting on Valerie to write about 30k in one day and the rest of us would make up the difference to reach to 1mil.
50,751 / 50,000
nov. 27, 2007 - 01 37
Our current Nanowrimo winning rate (using the author search function)
Country % winners among registered authors
Sydney 8.6%
Singapore 6.8%
Washingon 6.8%
London 4.3%
From the looks of things, we are most likely to double our winning rate in the couple of days =)
50,052 / 50,000
nov. 27, 2007 - 01 53
We are so awesome!
50,751 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 17 55
Alright, it is past GMT now and here are the winning rates
Malaysia 15%
Singapore 20%
Sydney 24%
London 24%
Perth 25%
=)
50,011 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 18 20
That's great. 20% is way above the usual average of 16%.