Top 50 for every week

May I know how are the top 50 being sorted, if more than 50 people solved all 8 problems for Algebra&Number Theory or Geometry&Combinatorics or all 4 problems in Physics? (My friend solved all 8 problems and he was not in top 50 for 1 past week). Thanks.

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The top 50 are sorted every week based on how many points they have accumulated that week. In the event of ties, the list is sorted based off of who has the most lifetime points. It is our intention that the list serve mostly to alert you to the cool fact that there are other's like you all over the world engaging in these problems as well.

Peter Taylor Staff - 8 years, 4 months ago

Who cares if you're top 50? All that matters is you learned how to solve the problems.

Tim Ye - 8 years, 4 months ago

I think it is based on the lifetime points.

QI HUAN TAN - 8 years, 4 months ago

Yeh its its really a mistry that i also want to know truely horrible♡♥♡♥♡♥

Aakash Kansal - 8 years, 4 months ago

Same problem here, but I guess it counts all the past activities too or something like that

Gurpreet Singh - 8 years, 4 months ago

May be that it notices the time we take in solving problem

Aakash Kansal - 8 years, 4 months 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}`	$\boxed{123}$