The reason is, that during the last German Championship 4 !! (four) persons got a result of more than 50 Dates. The actual World record is 60 Dates done by Ben in Oct 2003 and by Gunther in July 2004.
Three example, why I think that the millennium Standard for Historical dates is to low:
1. Could you imaging, that four people would do the Speed Cards in less than 30 sec, the best of them in 25 sec?
2. Look at Speed Numbers: the same figure of 1,200 Points (= 60 Dates) would get a person with 480 Numbers in 5 min. We actually do have a world record of only 324!
3. To receive 1.200 points in Spoken Numbers, it would be necessary to get nearly 300 figures correct!!!
I think we urgently need to have to think about the millennium standards! These standards now are 3-4 years old and the intention was to have a millennium standard which is round about 20% higher than the actual world record.
A short overview:
Discipline...Mill.Stand....World record ...Points (world record)
Dates ...........50...........60............1,200
Text............300..........345............1,150
30 min Binary...3000........3390*...........1,130
Speed cards.....30 sec......34,02 sec.........882
Spoken Numbers....x.........140...............828
Speed Numbers...400.........324...............810
Names...........200.........156...............780
60 min Cards....1538........1197..............778
60 min Numbers..2,500.......1,920.............768
Words...........250..........199..............796
* (not yet official)
You can see, that Dates, Text and 30 min Binary are more than the millennium Standard. I would suggest not to change Text and Binary, because there are only a very few persons doing more than it.
But to have 4 Persons doing more than 50 Dates during the German Championship is a very big hint to change something for Historical Dates!
I have three suggestion. What do you mean, which one could be the best?
1. Increase the millennium standard from 50 to 60 Dates.
2. Increase the maximum dates from 2099 to 9999
3. Expand the dates also to day and month (e.g. 23.August 1963)
After having thought about it I would suggest No. 2. The discipline Historical Dates would not change much, but i expect the results would get down substantially.
Best regards
Steffen
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edited bei Boris: Wörterrekord korrigiert. Musste sein
