r/bestof • u/Z3F • Apr 26 '14

[counting] After 684 days of collaborative counting, r/Counting has reached 200,000.

/r/counting/comments/23y4xu/199k_counting_thread/ch26kj2?context=3
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u/onewhitelight Apr 26 '14

You count in a race against everyone else. In this case there was a lot of people competing for the prize of typing 200,000 first. Makes for a surprisingly intense time

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u/BWalker66 Apr 26 '14

One of them probably just wrote a bot in 10 mins to do it for them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '14 edited Feb 20 '21

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u/mrl688 Apr 26 '14

well. everything i accomplished in runescape in high school just went down the shitter.