+hikemeister Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 What is your ratio of caches found to caches hidden? I typically have kept mine at around 10:1 (right now with 538 finds and 52 hides). However, I notice some geocachers with very high ratios and very low ratios. I wonder if there is a predominant ratio. Darn, it definately is a dull day to be thinking about something like this! Hey, here is another one -- what is your post to find ratio? Mine is about 1:1. Do you folks with 3,000 posts have the same level of activitity doing real geocaching? Just kidding - no offense intended. Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 (edited) Hide to find ratio 40:1 I would like to keep it around 25:1 so better get some hides sorted 6.7:1 post to finds , I need to post more Edited December 16, 2005 by Deego Quote Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 (edited) 104 finds to 8 hides.= 13:1 708 forum posts = 6.8 post for every find. 6.8: 1 BTW I suck at math. Edited December 16, 2005 by Airmapper Quote Link to comment
+Sagefox Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 (edited) I would imagine that while the dnf to find ratio for an individual cacher will likely remain consistent over the years the hide to find ratio would not. I view hides much differently than finds. I would not expect a 3000 find cacher to place 300 caches nor would it seem out of line for someone with 100 finds to have placed 25 or 30 caches. 10 cache placements is admirable. I hope I never get to 3000 forum posts. I'm in far too much trouble for being here as it is. Edit to answer OP question: caches 13.5:1 posts 0.52:1 Edited December 16, 2005 by Team Sagefox Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 (edited) 960is Finds 60ish Hides 16 to 1. Give or take. 13 to 1 Posts to Finds Give or take. Edited December 16, 2005 by Renegade Knight Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 438 finds to 136 hides, so guess that's roughy 4:1 Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 273 finds to 15 hides; around 16-1. My post to find ratio is none of your business. Quote Link to comment
+nfa Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 141 finds to 42 hides...about 3.3571428571428571428571428571429:1 jamie Quote Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 (edited) nevermind............. Edited December 16, 2005 by Airmapper Quote Link to comment
+WildGooseChase Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 521:41 = 12.7:1 I guess it's time to hide more! Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 This site has a F/H ratio column on the right side of the table. My ratio is 17 to 1. World Geocaching Leaders --Marky Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Something akin to this came up on floridacaching a while back. I was WAAY too bored and come up with this stat (no longer current): " There are 57 cachers in Fl with over 1000 finds. They average 69.375 hides - er, maybe that's 70." With the exception of Ice Cream Man, folks don't continue to place 70 NEW caches per 1000 finds. Hide to find ratio can't be static. At some point it's going to start dropping, or you're going to have a lot of hides needing maintenance or archived. Quote Link to comment
+DavidMac Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 1879:47 = 39.97:1 It's a bit skewed since I adopted out 15 of my hides. If you factor them in, I get: 1879:62 = 30.31:1 Since I don't stay in one area for too long (I work in MS during the winter and spend the summer driving back and forth between there and TN), it's a little more difficult for me to maintain a large number of hides... Quote Link to comment
+radioscout Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Found to hidden ratio: 87 Not very much but I do not own a car so I can't place many caches because I can't assure the cache maintenance. Post to found ratio: 4.6 Quote Link to comment
+OzGuff Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 2164 : 399 = 5.42 (I have adopted two caches so my numbers should read 2164 : 397 = 5.45) My 1st 100 hides took about a year. My 2nd 100 hides took about 7 months. My 3rd 100 hides took about 4 months. My 4th 100 hides took about 3.5 months. (OK, so I'm not yet at 400, but I am close.) When my finding activities were curtailed somewhat I found hiding gave me just as much enjoyment. As of my last hide I have sworn off of placing more park-and-grab micros and will just be on the lookout for great views and interesting places to bring folks. Quote Link to comment
Trinity's Crew Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Find-to-hide ratio - 52 to 1 Post-to-find ratio - 2.6 to 1 I had better start doing more of everything! Quote Link to comment
+BadAndy Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Find to hide 14:1 post to find 1.5:1 Not bad. Quote Link to comment
+altosaxplayer Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 My find to hide ratio is 6.2:1. Not very high is it? Quote Link to comment
+hikemeister Posted December 16, 2005 Author Share Posted December 16, 2005 When my finding activities were curtailed somewhat I found hiding gave me just as much enjoyment. As of my last hide I have sworn off of placing more park-and-grab micros and will just be on the lookout for great views and interesting places to bring folks. Wow -- I can definately relate to both of these points. Lately we have been very slow in finding, largely because we have found all of the caches in this area, and as a result have hidden a bunch of new caches. Same feeling too about park and grabs...they are easy to do, but after you spend a day finding them you realize they are not that much fun. I too am back to my original idea about geocaching which was to hide in places that took folks on nice relatively short hikes where they might not otherwise tread. Quote Link to comment
Hugh Jazz Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 598 ENTER^ 80 / 7.48 What's a post? Quote Link to comment
+radioscout Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 (edited) 598 ENTER^ 80 / 7.48 RPN! Edited December 16, 2005 by radioscout Quote Link to comment
+Jhwk Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 uhm... no Mainly because my stats are atrocious and I have this real problem of wanting my caches to be "perfect" - Whatever that may mean That's why I have placed one real cache and recently adopted two. I'll take five of your old caches for one of my new ones I can always blame the lameness on you later - if needed Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 3.62 to 1 find/hide ratio 5 to 1 posts/find ratio Quote Link to comment
Team Firebird Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 6:1, but mabye that is because I have only found 12 caches! I just don't have the time. Quote Link to comment
+Jennifer&Dean Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 (edited) find to hide- about 41:1 Post to find.... If I include Off Topic posts... and the sockpuppet account I used before Off Topic was created.... I give up. I can't figure out how many off topic posts I have under this account. I'd guess about a 1.5 finds to 1 post but I'm probably wrong. -J edit- I was wrong- I'm at about 1.2 finds/post. Edited December 16, 2005 by Jennifer&Dean Quote Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 109:1 find to hide ratio. I only hide as many as I can maintain. And I have trouble maintiaining the couple dozen I have out there. I don't know how those people with hundreds of hides do it 3:1 find to post ratio. I've found way more than I post. The rest of you need to get out more Quote Link to comment
Tahosa and Sons Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Hides are 27.5% of my total finds. And if you look at just the traditional caches their mean of D's & T's are about 3 & 3. I have a lot of tough caches up there including a decent 5 x 5. Maybe next year I'll try a 6 x 6. Quote Link to comment
+Moose Mob Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 I'm about 50:1 and I won't be hiding many more unless I retire and/or give the kid away for adoption. Or... I can always put out a bunch of easy micro's and not maintain them? Yeah, that's the ticket. Quote Link to comment
+tozainamboku Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 (edited) Per fizzymagic definitions - Hard caches: 406:15 = 27.067 Easy caches: 1306:3 = 435.33 Guess I need to hide some more easy caches. Edit: to show finds : hides and not the other way around Edited December 17, 2005 by tozainamboku Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 I am not a prolific hider. Never will be. I don't have to time to maintain a lot of caches. And, I want my caches to be special. Most have great views. (Sometimes, I wish more hiders would consider 'special' to be a good thing. But that wasn't what you asked...) Lessee, add 1 to the number of blue recycling cans in the proximity of the pavillion, multiply by the fourth digit in the number on the marble monument... Find/hide ratio is 47/1. I can think of maybe two more that I'd like to hide, maybe three... Being rather opinionated, and having no fear of putting my rear fin in my snout, my post/find ratio is 1.2/1. Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Find to hide: 100 to 1. Post to find: 10 to 1. Rounded because math makes me cross, though that's actually pretty close. Okay, I'm not a very good hider. I'm thinking about it... Quote Link to comment
+Jamie Z Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 I'd been a geocacher for over three years before I hid my first cache. in the meantime, I adopted a few... Now I've hidden some more, three I think. So my own find to hide ration is about 120:1, but I've adopted a few other caches, some of which have been since archived. I pay no attention to the ratio, since I only hide a cache when I find a fantastic place to put one as well as having the ability to maintain it. So far I'm pretty proud of my three caches and have gotten some satisfying logs. Jamie Quote Link to comment
+TeamGuisinger Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 Find to hide = 6.7333-1 Post to find=.43-1? Quote Link to comment
GeoVet Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 About 10:1 find to hide. Hikemeister, you going to give us an average ratio? Quote Link to comment
+ecocyclist Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 16:1, find to hide. 131 finds, 8 hides. Quote Link to comment
+FletchWL Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 Easy math here....75:1 Quote Link to comment
+pwcorg Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 19.5 finds to each hide 6.7 posts to each hide Definately more caching than typing. LOL Quote Link to comment
+hikemeister Posted December 18, 2005 Author Share Posted December 18, 2005 About 10:1 find to hide.Hikemeister, you going to give us an average ratio? Sure -- if this keeps going for a few days I will report the average ratios. Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 (edited) 3:1 find to post ratio. I've found way more than I post. The rest of you need to get out more Do a little superior dance for us. That might impress me. It appears that I have a 10:1 ratio according to my stat bar: (Thanks for the fix Airmapper!) But that is quite wrong when you consider all the geocaching websites I list/find caches on, my personal unlisted caches, and the fact that I'm anywhere between 100 & 200 caches behind in logging.... Not to mention that I have a half dozen hides that I STILL haven't bothered to list and the event cache that I submitted today. I may be as low as 7:1. Edited December 19, 2005 by Snoogans Quote Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 (edited) <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=eccadb6f-3b69-4a69-9055-e759bbfc3863" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.Groundspeak.com/stats/img.aspx?txt=Your+Kung+Fu+is+NOT+strong!!!&uid=eccadb6f-3b69-4a69-9055-e759bbfc3863&bg=1" border="0" title="Profile for Snoogans" alt="Profile for Snoogans"></a> OK- I give up. How do I post my stat bar??? Your code's fine, it works. The forums wont allow dynamic images, if you just copy the image and upload it like any other pic, it looks like this: Edited December 19, 2005 by Airmapper Quote Link to comment
+Iowa Tom Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 59 found: 57 hidden. I might add that I make a lot of my own cache containers and put a lot of time into each cache. I always liked hiding in hide-n-seek more than finding. I find that I can put more creativity into hiding and that is one reason I like doing this stuff. Merry Christmas -it Quote Link to comment
ParentsofSAM Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 10 cache placements is admirable. 173 Finds, 10 Hidden. 17:1 find:hide ratio 47 posts. 3:1 finds:post ratio Merry Christmas to all !! Quote Link to comment
+Jeonlyep Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 (edited) 9.5:1 for finds:hides 2.192:1 for finds:posts Getting down towrds two finds for every post, I'm going to have to shut up soon. That or move some place with more caches to find. 11 of the 20 closest caches to my zipcode are mine. (that's a 22.8 mile radius from my house) DAryl Edited December 19, 2005 by Jeonlyep Quote Link to comment
+ATMA Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 302 Finds and 13 Hides whatever that is... Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 I'm terrible at math . . . I'll let you figure it out for me . . . Quote Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 I'm terrible at math . . . I'll let you figure it out for me . . . For Miragee: 31:1, find to hide. 2.6:1 Post to find. (Have I mentioned I suck at math?) Quote Link to comment
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