GeoXPO

That makes sense. So those lengthy profile pages showing finds, distances from home, annual/ monthly/ daily totals, periods in between, and so forth are generated by some other application and then cut and paste into the user's profile? That would explain it.

I agree. I enjoy finding caches. In this case, my dad hid them and told me to "be on the lookout this week" so I made the effort to be the FTF. He is trying to figure out how a person gets FTF stats on their profile page. Since I'm only a regular member, I don't know if I even get them, but for him it is a matter of pride that his son gets credit. So I guess the real question is: What causes a user's profile to register FTFs as opposed to just a find. There is another guy in the region that has almost 6% FTF in all of his 2000 caches. That seems pretty amazing, and I'm wondering how that statistic is generated, i.e. automatically by the sql server, manually by the cache owner, manually by the cacher, automatically assigned to the first log entry, etc.

So how does someone get credit for their FTF? I found two of four caches today that were just placed, another cacher found the other two, and the third guy that showed up with his cell phone beat us all to the log. I had to travel back to my computer and am 4th on the list (after the activation and two others that arrived later but live mere houses away). Not that it matters (I won't get a raise at work or the admiration of my peers) but curiosity is a big thing wih me.

I noticed recently that someone in my area (Sacramento) found 11 caches in 2 days in places like Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Georgia. I was skeptical, until I examined the finds and realized the cache asked seekers to identify a type of landmark in any location and log the location. Is there a listing of these, or some sort of search that would help find them?