Young Writers Society

From 12:01 am GMT to 11:59 pm GMT July 25th, 2010, YWS held its third ever Review Day.

The goal: 538 reviews in 24 hours on 6 continents. Did we make it? You betcha. But lets let the numbers speak for themselves.

999,791 characters total (one review short of 1,000,000!)
224,672 words
84,554 instances of the letter 'e'
63,666 characters typed by Juniper
54,071 characters typed by Firestarter
52,047 characters typed by firefly882
46,235 characters typed by thegirlandthepen
44,772 instances of the letter 's'
42,026 characters typed by Rosey Unicorn
30,487 characters typed by Suzanne
28,872 instances of the word 'the'
12,787 instances of the word 'is'
12,666 periods
9,971 commas
9,899 characters typed by the average YWSer
5,073 quoted sections
2,974 back-slashes
2,900 semi-colons
2,794 instances of 'i' coming before 'e'
2,284 instances of the letter 'x'
2,091 instances of the letter 'z'
1,782 average characters per review
561 reviews total
547 reviews excluding Art / Photography
101 total reviewers
64 reviews by Firestarter
57 instances of 'i' coming before 'e' except after 'c'
36 reviews by Juniper
27 reviews by Rosey Unicorn
23 reviews by Stella Thomas
22 reviews by RepublicOfCoter
6 instances of the word 'cow'
0 instances of the word 'Fahrvergnügen'

Solvalery did the first review
RepublicOfCoter did the 100th review
Firestarter did the 200th review
Solvalery did the 300th review
Dreamy115 did the 400th review
VivielTwixt did the 500th review
BondGirl007 did the last review

Sorry, but I didn't do it by birth-year this time. Doing that takes a ridiculous amount of time.

The damage? 561 reviews total; 547 when you exclude Art / Photography. Awesome!

Hope you make it for the next Review Day on August 29th (GMT).

Haha, how cute that you pointed out the usage of E. I'll be sure to use the word Fahrvergnügen next time around, though I'm not even sure what kind of sentence that'll belong in. A random one, I think.

This statistic thing is sweet! Little ego boost right there seeing that I typed the most characters and came second for most reviews.

Woohoo! We all did great!

63,666 characters typed by Juniper
12,666 periods

Spooky.

Oh and, I was SO tempted to use the word 'Fahrvergnügen' in a review, just for the heck of it.

Only six continents? PSH. We really need to teach penguins how to type...

0 instances of the word 'Fahrvergnügen'

I'm going to do this next time.

YWS is awesome!

Gah, I'm going to be in Uni next time... and Sundays are my busy days. @_@ At least I did a lot for this time! I'm so proud of us!

6 instances of the word 'cow'

O.o

0 instances of the word 'Fahrvergnügen'

Maybe I will, next time. That and Pat Buchannan.

Am I blind? Because I read something like this...
Solvalery did the first review
Solvalery did the 300th review
*Sol faints*
I love stadistics! Well YWS stadistics to be specific!

I had a feeling I might not have the most characters! Despite doing a lot of reviews, they were mainly quite short poetry ones. I take my hat off to the guys who tackled fiction (June, Rosey, Stella) and still got plenty of reviews.

I had an average of 845 words per critique.

Also, I don't remember using cow but I use a lot of back-slashes.

What's "Fahrvergnügen" anyway?

*Googles it*

2,091 instances of the letter 'z'

:0 Zen? Zealous? Z...orro? Punzi? Mirzi?

I love how you've measured the use of an ad slogan for at least two months. (Maybe I shall write an advertising-based story so people can just use that expression. Or a car one, considering it was for a VW ad)

Each of my reviews were, on average, 1,556 characters. New personal record for amount of quality reviews.

Also:

Only six continents? PSH. We really need to teach penguins how to type...

Yes, we do.

Yuriiko wrote:What's "Fahrvergnügen" anyway?

*Googles it*

German for 'Driving pleasure'.

Demeter wrote::0 Zen? Zealous? Z...orro? Punzi? Mirzi?

xD Got to be the last two. And those pesky Americans who spell things like "realise" with a "z."

Seriously, how the heck were there so many back slashes? I don't think I've ever used one of those in my life!

Kudos to everybody, though. What's amazing about Review Day is (to be corny for a minute) the sheer amount and variety of members that seem to get involved. Guess that's what YWS is about. [grouphug].

Great job, everyone!

-Stella x

Great job guys! I do feel quite good about myself, I did one review this time as compared to my no reviews the last time. Maybe I'll bump it up to two next time?

Kudos to everyone who sold their day to reviewing. You all rock.