The rep game at stackoverflow is intriguing and fun.

Which SO user acumulated rep faster than any other user. Let's take several "quickly" windows of say:

  • 1 hour
  • 1 day
  • 1 week
  • 1 month
  • 1 year

What user earned reputation fastest in the given period and what can the gain be attributed to (eg: a great question, a great answer, lots of one or the other, etc...)?

You needn't answer the whole question. Perhaps your answer only addresses one of the period windows or perhaps it addresses a particular tactic.

Disclaimer: I am halfway through a bottle of Shiraz as I ask this, so don't take your answers too seriously.

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Have a look at the tags-stats-page without any tags selected. It displays the number of votes.

Top answerers

Last 30 Days

1536 313 Jon Skeet
_962 358 Jonathan Sampson
_902 272 Alex Martelli
_874 350 Pekka

The first number represents the number of upvotes - downvotes and the second the number of answers.

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Well, Jon certainly wins on the year scale, so he'd be a good bet at any scale. Alex Martelli is catching up at a frightening rate, though. Taken more granularly: anyone who has won a 550 bounty. I don't think I have. I'm pretty sure I've gone well into the 500+ in a day, but only with bounty. My best without bounty is just under 400, but I'm pretty sure this has been beaten by Jon and/or Alex.

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In 1 year, the answer is obviously Jon Skeet.
(I'm guessing in the other windows also)

It can be attributed to him knowing a lot of stuff

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Well, as mentioned elsewhere I'm kind of cheating here, since I got one of the lucrative 550 bounties ;-)

But my records for reputation:

  • 1 minute: 550 ;-)
  • 1 hour: 580
  • 1 day: 620

I'm not going to put the rest down, since it there are bunches of people average in the thousands of rep per week. Jon Skeet for example has a lifetime average of about 300 per day.

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The answer to this question has to be the easiest way to get 1700 rep - if it was trickled over time. Make a populist soundbite statement, +N2 rep

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This legendary answer from bobince earned him over 900 Rep, probably in just a few days. Maybe it isn't the fastest Rep growth (due to the Rep cap), but I think it's certainly the fastest accumulation of upvotes.

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