USPSA classifier trivia

[ummm]

I'm a software engineer, and out of boredom I wrote some software that can "read" documents (kind of) -- it's often called OCR software. It was just done for kicks, therefore there are certainly some bugs. Anyways, I turned it loose on the (active) USPSA Classifiers, just to see what it could determine. Look at your own risk!

Here are some of the incredibly useless numbers; presented for your amusement:

78 currently active classifiers

33 are comstock

9 are fixed time

36 are virginia count

14.62 average round count in a classifier, with a standard deviation of 5.72

73.78 Avg # points in a classifier with a std deviation of 29.4

19 classifiers have required movement (actual steps, not just standing up or turning around) on the clock

59 Classifiers do not require such movement on the clock

5 classifiers require 1 or more headshots

73 Classifiers do not require any headshots

53 classifiers have no steel

25 classifiers have steel

75 classifiers can be shot from standing position

3 classifiers require a non-standing position to discharge the gun

27 classifiers require 1 or more shots to be taken around some kind of barrier

51 classifiers have no such obstructions

34 classifiers require a reload on the clock

44 classifiers do not (but you may still have to reload on the clock depending on your gun's capacity and your accuracy)

32 classifiers are multi-string

33 classifiers allow hands relaxed at sides to start

45 classifiers require alternate hand positions to start

6 classifiers require the gun and mags to be somewhere other than their normal place on your belt

3.64 avg num of steel among those classifiers featuring steel

22 classifiers requiring SHO & WHO

1 classifiers requiring SHO but not WHO

0 classifiers requiring WHO but not SHO

37 classifiers with 1 or more no-shoots

3.08 Avg # No-shoots in classifiers that have no-shoots

5.40 avg number of total targets per classifier

4.46 Avg # paper targets per classifier in classifiers featuring paper targets

4 num classifiers with no paper targets

Here's an easy trivia question: What is the most common single distance (in feet) for a target in the 78 active USPSA classifiers? Little tougher: 2nd most common? Very tough; only GM's of useless classifier trivia will get this: 3rd most common?

AND the bonus question, for the title of "TGO of Useless Classifier Trivia"....

If you shot all 78 active USPSA classifiers with no penalties and never missed, you would have taken (by the software's not-likely-to-be-perfectly-accurate count) 1280 shots. What is the average (mean) distance of those shots (in feet)? IOW, what is the average distance of a shot in USPSA classifiers?

Edited June 10, 2012 by ummm

[SteveU]

Ok I'll bite.

36

30

45

Bonus: 32

What do I win?

[PKT1106]

Most common: 21ft

2nd common: 30ft

3rd common: 45ft

Avg distance: 24ft

[ummm]

What do I win?

What, the title of "TGO of Useless Classifier Trivia" is not enough?

Maybe we can get flexmoney to donate an autographed 8x10 glossy

[ummm]

OK, so flexmoney is apparently not going to step forward with shwag so we might as well wrap this up and get to the drinking

Most common distance (by a margin of more than 2 to 1 over distance #2) is 30 feet -- 259 of the 1280 shots are at that distance!

Distance #2 is 45 feet with 126 shots specified at that distance

The 3rd most commonly specified distance is (believe it or not) 150 feet, with 124 shots specified at that distance! All those crazy long-range classifiers add up...

(4th most common is 21 feet, so you guys had some excellent guesses!)

And the average of all the shot distances is: 49.004 feet

[Flexmoney]

OK, so flexmoney is apparently not going to step forward with shwag...

D-oh!

[3quartertime]

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