Featured Solutions

So, I recently unlocked my Contributions page in my profile, and most of you probably know about it coz I've been bragging about it everywhere, even though its not that big of an achievement. But I have noticed that on the side, there is something caled a Featured Solution, and I have 2 featured solutions.

$\large \text{What is a featured solution?}$

When I asked Brilliant Mathematics, he\she gave me a mysterious reply stating this -

"It is as it's described. You can personalize your own profile page with the contributions that you're proud of"

Which totally doesn't make sense to me. Please help!!!!!!!!

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Comments

@Frisk Dreemurr, @Yajat Shamji, @Mahdi Raza, @Siddharth Chakravarty, @Vinayak Srivastava, @Páll Márton

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Percy, show your contributions page!

Yajat Shamji - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

I think it means solutions you made that were at the top (or most upvoted) in the problem. I am sure that a featured solution counts when you have the top/first explanation on a daily challenge, not sure whether that applies to community problems as well.

Mahdi Raza - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Oh! But I never got a top solution, my highest was yesterday's challenge where I got the second best solution

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

That's interesting, it might be one of the community problems then...

Mahdi Raza - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Mahdi Raza – I don't think its the community problems either.............................but when my solution became 2nd yesterday my featured solutions jumped to 2 from 1, so I have a lead..........................

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

I don't know, I think every solution that has a minimum $n$ number of upvotes becomes featured. But I am not sure.

Vinayak Srivastava - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

I don't know about featured solutions, I think the same as Vinayak, except that the number $n$ varies from question to question, and is gained using an algorithm of some kind

Peace :D

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Percy Jackson

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

I think you are confused between top solutions and featured solutions. Top solutions can at max be 3 of them, but featured can be many many. Please correct me if I am wrong

Mahdi Raza - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

I understood my misunderstanding, thanks @Mahdi Raza!

Frisk Dreemurr - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

I think you can be feautured member only once. You are a feautured member already, because you wrote your 10th solution on July 16. BTW Brilliant Mathematics aren't a group? I'm a featured member by a top solution. And you(@every body)?

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

LOL @Vinayak Srivastava wrote his 5th problem and I wrote a popular solution on May 11

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

He is asking featured solution, not member!

Vinayak Srivastava - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Vinayak Srivastava – I don't have featured solution section.

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – See your page, you have 38 feature solutions.

Vinayak Srivastava - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Vinayak Srivastava – Interesting. When I see my contribution page, then I can't see the numbers. Impact and nothing.

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Páll Márton - Yes, I was a featured member for my 10th solution, but I'd rather have it for a popular solution like you. I was talking about featured solutions, and its there under Impact in your Contributions page. Did you know that Calvin Lin, some one from Brilliant staff used to make notes 5 years ago, every month or so, about a Brilliant member who is awesome, called featured member notes.

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A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

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NSCS 747 - 10 months, 1 week ago

@Percy Jackson - That is good to know. Btw, I got the infinity war reference, just watched it.

Waddles Pines - 10 months ago

@Waddles Pines – Cool :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months ago

Featured solutions mean the solutions which you want to feature in your contributions page and you are proud of, show others which solutions are the best ones you have written. By default, most probably I think it would be your top solutions but I changed some of my solutions to the ones which I really liked, you might see the Edit button in your solution, there is also a "Add to My Contribution" button also along with the delete button which is useful when your solution is the one you are not proud of.

Siddharth Chakravarty - 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Math	Appears as
Remember to wrap math in `\(` ... `\)` or `\[` ... `\]` to ensure proper formatting.
`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$