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      CommentAuthortliff
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2009
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    wtm2 will have difficultie ratings.
    The simplest way to judge difficulty is by the number of people who solved a shot in a given timeframe.
    Assuming a 30 day timeframe (which is exactly how long you are able to solve a movie right now) where do you think we should put the limits?

    Comments welcome ;)
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    Easy : > 300x
    Medium : 100x< >300x
    Hard : < 100x
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      CommentAuthorefji
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2009
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    Are you able to extract the distribution of the number of people who solved each of the last month movies (about 800) ?
    Then you can find for example how many people solved the 20% more difficult (hard), the 20% easier (easy) and the 60% remaining (medium). If you send me the data I can do the job.
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      CommentAuthorFamilyGuy
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2009
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    What's the whole purpose of that difficulty rating?
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      CommentAuthortliff
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2009
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    so when you are totaly wasted you can look up shots that you can still solve
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      CommentAuthorefji
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2009
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    Hum. I solve more <50 than >500.
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    There's no way to create an universal difficulty rating because difficulty is completely individual.

    If you know the movie by heart it's easy to solve it even if only 3 other people have solved it so far. And conversely, if you haven't seen the movie it may be hard to solve it even if it's a blockbuster solved by 300 players.

    But you might be able to calculate a personal difficulty rating for a still. But even that would be quite a complex statistical endeavor.
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      CommentAuthortliff
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2009
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    @biglebowski
    we are of course aware, that calulating the difficultiy for a specific user is very complex but this is also not what we are looking for. We are looking for the average user. We will still be off quite a bit for some people but "easy" should be easier than "hard".
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    Easy movies : more than 300 solved after 5 days : http://whatthemovie.com/beta/movies/view/17457 or http://whatthemovie.com/beta/movies/view/17181
    Hard movies : less than 50 solved after 10 days : http://whatthemovie.com/beta/movies/view/17004

    With this kind of scale, you should be able to find a balanced difficulty rating :) (I think that 10 days is a good period to determine a threshold).
    • CommentAuthoragonistes
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2009
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    I pretty much agree with theoffice911, 100 and 300 sound like good limits. :)
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    i would say 4 or 5 hundred is a limit for easy, but generally i agree.
    and also: hurray :D
    really, good idea.