What Kind Of Caches Do You Do?

[+kewfriend]

BICCachers today did a local cache and I noticed that they had logged 3036 caches - so I looked at their profile. I was IMPRESSED!

 

Traditional Caches* 2533---------83.43%

Multi-caches* 151----------4.97%

Virtual Caches* 285----------9.39%

Letterbox Hybrids* 10------------0.33%

Event Caches* 3-------------0.10%

Unknown Caches* 47------------1.55%

Project Caches* 1-------------0.03%

Webcam Caches* 1-------------0.03%

Locationless * 4-------------0.13%

Earthcaches* 1-------------0.03%

 

I then looked at my own stats:

 

Traditional Caches* 136---------75.98%

Multi-caches* 19-----------10.61%

Virtual Caches* 7------------3.91%

Letterbox Hybrids* 1------------0.56%

Event Caches* 1------------0.56%

Unknown Caches* 11----------6.15%

Webcam Caches* 1------------0.56%

Locationless * 2------------1.12%

Earthcaches* 1------------0.56%

 

vaguely similar I thought - so as far as cache types are concerned do we all drift to the proportion of caches available - or do some people actually target different types of cache in preference to others.

 

I like caches that make me think - either about the location or how to get there - thats my folly.

 

Thoughts?

[+Just Roger]

My split is largely governed by what is available and in my area there is a high proportion of multis which is reflected in my stats. Sometimes, when trying to grab one en route to somewhere and I want a nice traditional, I discard multis but otherwise I an working streadily outwards from home.

 

My split is:-

Trad 72%

Multi 21%

Virtual 1.5%

Event 0.7%

Unknown 4%

[+Kitty Hawk]

Traditional Caches* 140---------57.14%

Multi-caches* 68-----------27.75%

Virtual Caches* 20------------8.16%

Letterbox Hybrids* 1------------0.41%

Event Caches* 1------------0.41%

Unknown Caches* 3-----------1.22%

Webcam Caches* 1------------0.41%

Locationless * 10------------4.08%

Earthcaches* 1------------0.41%

 

I seem to have a higher than average proportion of multi's, virtuals and locationless.

 

I wonder if the real numbers folks target traditionals for speed - it would make sense, although don't the ameriacns do power trails that might score 50 or 100 traditionals in one 15 minute session.

[+Learned Gerbil]

Just under 25% of mine are virtuals, but a lot of my caching is in central Londonwhere a very high percentage of caches are virtuals. I can't say I sek out virtuals, but then again, there are some very good ones.

[+Belplasca]

Well, mine seems to be about

 

Traditional Caches* 241 = 66%

Multi 75 = 20%

Virtual Caches* 5 = 2%

Event Caches* 17 = 5%

Unknown (Mystery) Caches* 22 = 6%

Locationless (Reverse) Caches* 1 = 0.3%

Earthcaches* 1 = 0.3%

 

Total 362

 

But what I really go for is FTF.

 

According to GeocacheUK I have 153 0r 45%...

 

 

Bob Aldridge

[+Sensei TSKC]

Traditional Caches* 187---------59.1%

Multi-caches* 74-----------23.4%

Virtual Caches* 4------------1.3%

Letterbox Hybrids* 3------------0.9%

Event Caches* 5------------1.6%

Unknown (Mystery) Caches* 24-----------7.6%

Locationless * 17------------5.4%

CITO 1------------0.3%

Earthcaches* 1------------0.3%

[+Master Mariner]

Traditional (189) = 68.99%

Multi (16) = 5.84%

Virtuals (31) = 11.31%

Unknown (22) = 8.03%

Webcam (2) = 0.73%

Locationless (14) = 5.11%

[+The Forester]

Project Caches* 1-------------0.03%

OK, I'll bite: what's a "Project cache"?

 

I like caches that make me think - either about the location or how to get there

Me too. I particularly enjoy the genre which - to borrow phrase from the BBC's Charter - inform, educate and entertain.

 

Cheers, The Forester

[Nediam]

Project Caches*  1-------------0.03%

OK, I'll bite: what's a "Project cache"?

Probably one of the "Project Ape" caches, set up to mark the new(ish) "Planet of the Apes" film.

Edited October 17, 2005 by nediam

[Nediam]

Traditional Caches - 81.48%

Multi-caches - 11.76%

Virtual Caches - 2.83%

Letterbox Hybrids - 0.22%

Unknown (Mystery) Caches - 2.40%

Locationless (Reverse) Caches - 0.44%

Earthcaches - 0.44%

[markandlynn]

We target what is nearest to our home mainly. When on holiday Traditional Regulars get priority.

Trads 225 82.42%

Multi 31 11.36%

Events 4 1.47%

Mystery 12 4.40%

CITO 1 0.37%

 

Of course its relative statisitcs we are talking here.

What percentage of the UK's caches are traditionals ? from the posts above i believe its arround 70% mark.

[+Naefearjustbeer]

Nearby ones When away with caitlin (3) I tend to go for fairly straight forward traditionals (she likes swaps) Otherwise I will try all sorts myself.

 

Traditional Caches* 58

 

Multi-caches* 4

 

Virtual Caches* 10

 

Event Caches* 3

 

Unknown (Mystery) Caches* 2

 

Locationless (Reverse) Caches* 2

[barryhunter]

For comparison heres the totals for all UK caches:

http://stats.guk2.com/cachetools/by.php?&by=type&u=

(note the last column is the percentage of logs against that cache type, not the percentage of that type of cache)

 

(dont even look at my profile, its shameful!)

[+Kitty Hawk]

 

Traditional Caches* 140---------57.14%

Multi-caches* 68-----------27.75%

Virtual Caches* 20------------8.16%

Letterbox Hybrids* 1------------0.41%

Event Caches* 1------------0.41%

Unknown Caches* 3-----------1.22%

Webcam Caches* 1------------0.41%

Locationless * 10------------4.08%

Earthcaches* 1------------0.41%

 

I seem to have a higher than average proportion of multi's, virtuals and locationless.

 

I wonder if the real numbers folks target traditionals for speed - it would make sense, although don't the ameriacns do power trails that might score 50 or 100 traditionals in one 15 minute session.

Eek - and 96 trigpoints...too trickey to recalculate

[markandlynn]

For comparison heres the totals for all UK caches:

http://stats.guk2.com/cachetools/by.php?&by=type&u=

(note the last column is the percentage of logs against that cache type, not the percentage of that type of cache)

 

(dont even look at my profile, its shameful!)

Traditional Cache 6783 70.31

Multi-Cache 1671 17.32

Unknown Cache 590 6.12

Virtual Cache 319 3.31

Event Cache 116 1.20

Letterbox Hybrid 68 0.70

Earthcache 51 0.53

Webcam Cache 43 0.45

Cache In Trash 5 0.05

Project APE 1 0.01

 

70.31% only 0.31% out on my guess so that makes us above average for traditionals, CITO and event caches and below average for the rest not surprising as we have never done a virtual, earthcache, locationless or webcam cache.

[Nediam]

Shame the only UK Project APE cache has been archived.

[markandlynn]

Shame the only UK Project APE cache has been archived.

TRUE

Only four left in the world now all in the US.

There is a spare one in the Groundspeak office apparently though.

Anyone got a link to the archived one ?

[Nediam]

Anyone got a link to the archived one ?

Yep

 

Mission 10b: Meridian Snake

[+Kitty Hawk]

You go away, do a job and find that someone has done it first

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...c7-4630f1dd25b7

 

 

EDIT - 3 minutes too slow, the things you could do in 3 minutes!

Edited October 17, 2005 by Kitty Hawk

[+jochta]

Traditional - 123 - 55.4%

Multi-Cache - 49 - 22.1%

Virtual - 23 - 10.4%

Locationless (Reverse) - 15 - 6.8%

Unknown (Mystery) - 7 - 3.2%

Event - 2 - 0.9%

Earthcache - 2 - 0.9%

Webcam - 1 - 0.5%

 

Hmmm, lower than average trads, higher than average multi & virts

[+Woody's Wanderers]

Mine's easy! 50% traditional 50% multi (but then I'm a newbie and I've only done 8 so far!)

[+molrams]

Trad 84%

Multi 11%

Event 1%

Mystery 4%

 

A bit heavy on the Trads there. I tend to leave the more complicated ones until i'm caching on my own. Thats doesn't happen very often

[+ANDYBUG&LADYBIRD]

Oooh, it's like Eurovision!!!!!

Here are the stats for us Bugs!!!

 

Traditionals 573= 65.86%

Multi's 190= 21.83%

Virtuals 27= 3.10%

Letterboxes 6= 0.68%

Events 17= 1.95%

Mysteries 48= 5.51%

Webcam 2= 0.23%

Locationless 6= 0.69%

Earth caches 2= 0.23%

 

When you look at it like this it really makes you want to go out and get a few more multi's doesn't it!!!!

 

AB&LBxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[+The Bongtwashes]

    Oooh, it's like Eurovision!!!!!    

OK then, like Eurovision, here are our votes in reverse order

 

Unknown / Mystery 3.4%

Virtual 3.4%

Locationless / Reverse 6%

Multi 12.8%

Traditional 74.4%

 

[+McDeHack]

Easy ones?????

[+Bill D (wwh)]

Traditional.. 142 - 61.2%

Multicache... 40 - 17.3%

Virtual......... 21 - 9.1%

Event........... 4 - 1.7%

Unknown...... 1 - 0.4%

Webcam....... 2 - 0.9%

Locationless. 21 - 9.1%

Earthcache.... 1 - 0.4%

[+choccymandm]

Traditional Caches - 205 ------------------ 66.8%

Multi-caches - 72 -------------------------- 23.4%

Virtual Caches - 11 ------------------------ 3.6%

Unknown (Mystery) Caches - 14 --------- 4.6%

Locationless (Reverse) Caches - 5 ------- 1.6%

 

... wonder how many of those trads are pesky micro's???

[+sTeamTraen]

Of my non-"waymark" finds, about 33% are (combined) multis and mysteries. But that's mostly a reflection of the kind of caches we get round here. Many Dutch and Belgian cachers have more than 50% multis; some Americans have 100 caches with no multis at all. The game is laid out differently depending on where you go.

[+2202]

Traditional.. 227 - 69.8%

Multicache... 54 - 16.6%

Virtual......... 27 - 7.7%

Event........... 2 - 0.6%

Unknown...... 11 - 3.38%

Webcam....... 0 - 0.0%

Locationless. 1 - 0.307%

Earthcache.... 2 - 0.6%

 

Looks like I like the straight forward.

So why am I planning difficult ones?

[+Simply Paul]

FINDS: _______________________ HIDES:

 

Traditional............... 334 - 61.5% _ 44 - 37.3%

Multicache.............. 112 - 20.6% _ 42 - 35.6%

Virtual...................... 31 - 5.7% ___ 1 - 0.8%

Letterbox.................... 4 - 0.7% ___ 1 - 0.8%

Event (inc. 1 CITO).... 17 - 3.1% ___ 4 - 3.4%

Puzzle/Unknown......... 27 - 4.9% __ 26 - 22%

Webcam...................... 2 - 0.3%

Locationless............... 16 - 2.9%

Total......................... 543 _______ 118

 

It looks like I like the straight forward, so why am I setting difficult ones too?

 

SP

Edited October 18, 2005 by Simply Paul

[+DTJM]

Traditional Caches - 65.59%

Multi-caches - 24.87%

Virtual Caches - 7.15%

Letterbox Hybrids - 0.34% - only just started on these!

Event - 0.68%

Unknown (Mystery) Caches - 1.36%

 

Interesting, I thought multis would have been a higher %

 

Denise

[+jochta]

Any interesting analysis to be done from this?

 

Do we fall into two camps?

 

<60% trads v >60% trads?

 

I think I've got the lowest trad %age (55.4%) so far...

[+Brenin Tegeingl]

Found Caches

Traditional.... ..167=64.23%

Multi Cache... ...23= 8.85%

Virtual Cache....14=5.38%

Event Cache.....12=4.61%

Mystery Cache..20=7.69%

Locationless......13=5%

CITO Events.......3=1.5%

Earth Caches......8=3.08%

 

Placed caches

Traditional............7=36.84%

Multi Caches.........1=5.26%

Letter Box Hybrid..1=5.26%

Event Caches........5=26.31%

Mystery Caches.....2=10.53%

CITO Events..........3=15.79% (includes one jointly organised)

 

Dave

[+Brenin Tegeingl]

Any interesting analysis to be done from this?

 

Do we fall into two camps?

 

<60% trads v >60% trads?

 

"If I've got my maths right " the average of everyone's % for Traditionals is

 

68.98%

 

with the figures for < 0r > the Average is as follows <55% >45% with one persons % >0.01% than average.

 

 

Dave (note disclaimer over the maths)

[+bargee]

You have got me all curious

so i worked it out and here are mine

 

Found caches

 

Trad = 173 : 73.3%

Multi = 20 : 8.5%

Virtual= 3 : 1.27%

Mystery= 31 : 13.1%

Webcam= 1 : 0.42%

Locationless= 8 : 3.4%

 

And i thought all i did was mystery and puzzles here in cheshire, i was obviously wrong

 

I

[+Moote]

Here is my breakdown, it's as I expected really as I love Traditional and Locationless caches the most

 

Traditional ........ 57 ........ 54.29%

 

Locationless ....... 27 ........ 25.71%

 

Virtual ............. 8 ......... 7.62%

 

Multi ............... 4 ......... 3.81%

 

Unknown ............. 4 ......... 3.81%

 

Event ............... 3 ......... 2.86%

 

Letterbox Hybrids ... 1 ......... 0.95%

 

CTIO ................ 1 ......... 0.95%

Edited October 19, 2005 by Moote

[+Stuey]

Traditional Cache.... 585.. 67.7%

Multi-caches.......... 98.. 11.3%

Locationless Cache.... 73... 8.4%

Virtual Caches........ 58... 6.7%

Mystery Caches........ 32... 3.7%

Event Caches........... 7... 0.8%

Earthcaches............ 5... 0.6%

Letterbox Hybrids...... 3... 0.3%

Webcam Caches.......... 3... 0.3%

..................... 864

Seems like I am also the average trad'age (and I also got my columns to line up, hehe).

[+sTeamTraen]

I think I've got the lowest trad %age (55.4%) so far...

Bwahahahahaha! Eat my dust, Trad Boy

 

Traditional..............244....46.3%

Multi.....................82....15.6%

Virtual...................74....14.0%

Letterbox Hybrids..........1.....0.2%

Event Caches...............2.....0.4%

Unknown (Mystery).........51.....9.7%

Webcam.....................5.....0.9%

Locationless..............67....12.7%

Earthcaches................1.....0.2%

[+The Blorenges]

Who ever said "It's not about the numbers" ? Mrs B