What cache size have you found the most of?

January 28, 2011

"Regular" is my top size.

I will update results occasionally as more replies are made.

6.7k · January 28, 2011

I have no idea. If I had to venture a guess I'd say regular.

18.9k · January 28, 2011

Regular - closely followed by small.

January 28, 2011

Regular has the most, micro and small are in a dead heat for 2nd place. To be perfectly frank though, if caches sizes were listed correctly that would probably change, we have a bunch of micro caches around here that have been stuck in something else and called small. And more than a few Not Chosen and Other that are in fact micros. I don't mind hunting micros but if Nick is along it makes him really mad to find a micro shoved up a plastic squirrels other end (or some variation of that theme) and called a small.

1.1k · January 28, 2011

35mm cases abound in my area.

1.5k · January 28, 2011

Micro

1.5k · January 28, 2011

Small, Micro, and then Regular

2.5k · January 28, 2011

My stats show that is micro by a long shot.

January 28, 2011

53% regular

19% small

18% micro

I have a few percent in other and not chosen, which were probably either micro or some special custom size.

Lately with the weather, I've just been picking up guardrail micros while I'm out and about cuz I haven't been on the trail lately. I like regulars the best, though.

January 28, 2011

Small then regular.

1.5k · January 28, 2011

Micro--44.37%. My caching days started in Chicago, so city caching has a lot of micros. Surprisingly, I have no large caches, so now I'm wondering what a "large" cache is. I thought a 5 gallon bucket would be one, but it's listed as regular. Geez, how much bigger can one be? Other than those jumbo ones you see in pictures.

January 28, 2011

Micro, by a landslide. Lots of urban caches here in Los Angeles. Of late, I've been ignoring those and actively seeking out larger caches, usually regulars. No larges yet. I've seen pictures, and think they'd be pretty darned cool to find, but I haven't come across any yet.

January 28, 2011

Regular: 51.85%

Small: 25.93%

Micro: 22.22%

3.1k · January 28, 2011

44% Micro

25% Regular

18% Small

The Micro percentage should be on its way down as I aim to do less urban caching in 2011 than I did in 2010. Plus Cacheapalooza has given me many ammo cans to find.

10.1k · January 28, 2011

32& Regular

29% Micro

27% Small

I go caching in the woods, as well as the suburbs.

14k · January 28, 2011

My stats show that is micro by a long shot.

Same for me:

Micro 42.8 %

Small 24.7 %

Regular 24.2 %

Not chosen 4.83 %

Other 1.73 %

Virtual 1.06 %

Large 0.57 %

January 28, 2011

Micro's and Nano's!! thats all that are in my area, but lately thank goodness a few small/large ones, so that made a nice change.

7.3k · January 28, 2011

35% micro

30% regular

20% small

1% large

14% Other - events, virts, locationless, webcams and caches with size not chosen, most of those micro(a few ammo cans in that group though, by a local who for some reason doesn't choose a cache size)

2.6k · January 28, 2011

Small 43.6 %

Micro 34.3 %

Regular 14.9 %

1.9k · January 28, 2011

Micro!

January 28, 2011

Micro by far, even though it doesn't feel like it should be that far.

January 28, 2011

Micro by a frickin' landslide. I do mostly urban caching, partially by choice and partially not. If there were a separate Nano category it would probably be the winner.

38.2k · January 28, 2011

According to my stats

Regular 51.59%

Micro 18.56%

Small 16.51%

Not Chosen or other 8.88%

Large 1.25%

1.4k · January 28, 2011

Regular 427 (43.66%.)

Micro 203 (20.76%)

Small 184 (18.81%)

Not Chosen 58 (5.93%)

Virtual 50 (5.11%)

Other 37 (3.78%)

Large 19 (1.94%)

Average Difficulty 1.67

Average Terrain 1.96

Nearest to Home 0.023 mi

Farthest From Home 4638.2 mi

3.1k · January 28, 2011

Regular, 56.13%

3.3k · January 28, 2011

January 28, 2011

Here is an overview of the stats posted in this thread.

26 posts:

Micro - 12 (46.2%)

Regular - 11 (42.3%)

Small - 3 (11.5%)

Edited January 28, 2011 by lemon16

January 29, 2011

# Micro * 824 (44.88%)

# Regular * 490 (26.69%)

# Small * 383 (20.86%)

# Not chosen * 58 (3.16%)

# Other * 36 (1.96%)

# Virtual * 35 (1.91%)

# Large 10 (0.54%)

"Not chosen" are almost always micro or nano, so they could probably be lumped in with the others. Micro is up at the top, but at least I have found more regular and small combined than micro. I lived in the city of St. Louis for 4 years, so that contributed to the micro count. There are many more micros in SW Ohio, though, where I had most of my finds in 2005 and 2006. It's kind of out of control.

Edited January 29, 2011 by benji55545

January 29, 2011

- Regular 38.5%

- Micro 25.3%

- Small 21.3%

Our local area has become more and more saturated with micros over the past few years. We don't hunt for many of the urban ones and we do a fair amount of caching outside our local area, which is why we still have more regulars.

Edited January 29, 2011 by succotash

6.7k · January 29, 2011

What is it we are learning here?

January 30, 2011

What is it we are learning here?

Nothing important really. I was just curious what the results would be.

6.7k · January 30, 2011

OK. I thought you were trying to figure something out.

10.2k · January 30, 2011

What is it we are learning here?

Nothing important really. I was just curious what the results would be.

Oh, C'mon Gof, be a sport. I think we is learning that most highly active cachers that go after everything listed on the website are going to have micro on top. I for one am proud to have micro as #3, and less than 25% of my finds. :lol:

Regular 42.46%

Small 25.56%

Micro 24.53%

January 30, 2011

What is it we are learning here?

Nothing important really. I was just curious what the results would be.

Oh, C'mon Gof, be a sport. I think we is learning that most highly active cachers that go after everything listed on the website are going to have micro on top. I for one am proud to have micro as #3, and less than 25% of my finds.

Regular 42.46%

Small 25.56%

Micro 24.53%

I was going to post this earlier but was afraid Gof would yell at me. :laughing:

Regular 51.36%

Micro 24.32%

Small 17.73%

I tend to enjoy forest caches, which tend to be regular rather than micros but you probably knew that already by looking at my stats.

6.7k · January 30, 2011

What is it we are learning here?

Nothing important really. I was just curious what the results would be.

Oh, C'mon Gof, be a sport. I think we is learning that most highly active cachers that go after everything listed on the website are going to have micro on top. I for one am proud to have micro as #3, and less than 25% of my finds.

Regular 42.46%

Small 25.56%

Micro 24.53%

Hey buddy. How's things?

I still stand pat. I have no idea what my distribution of size found is and I certainly don't care what yours is. I was really expecting someone to attempt to use these numbers to prove some silly theory. I am pleasantly surprised that they haven't.

6.7k · January 30, 2011

What is it we are learning here?

Nothing important really. I was just curious what the results would be.

Oh, C'mon Gof, be a sport. I think we is learning that most highly active cachers that go after everything listed on the website are going to have micro on top. I for one am proud to have micro as #3, and less than 25% of my finds.

Regular 42.46%

Small 25.56%

Micro 24.53%

I was going to post this earlier but was afraid Gof would yell at me.

Regular 51.36%

Micro 24.32%

Small 17.73%

I tend to enjoy forest caches, which tend to be regular rather than micros but you probably knew that already by looking at my stats.

Nah. I don't get to yell at people here.

3.2k · January 30, 2011

37% Regular

30% Micro

23% Small

January 30, 2011

Regular 40.42%

Small 33.48%

Micro 16.57%

January 30, 2011

Micro 43.5%

Small 25.73%

Regular 19.36%

Not chosen 9.55%

Other 1.06%

Large 0.8%

This is pretty interesting, especially the part about large containers. I found 3 of them, and didn't even realize it! Two of them were indeed very large ammo cans, but the one was more of a regular from my recollection (it and one of the others have since been archived).

Much like D/T ratings, I have found some which I would have considered to be different sizes than what was specified, but I would say the vast majority of them have been accurate.

January 31, 2011

Here is an overview of the stats posted in this thread so far.

33 posts:

Regular - 16 (48.5%)

Micro - 14 (42.4%)

Small - 3 (9.1%)

The results so far surprise me. I was expecting micro to beat out regular by a long shot. But it looks like the two are pretty close.

January 31, 2011

Container Types I've Found

* Regular * 45.45%

* Micro *20.83%

* Small *15.91%

* Virtual *8.33%

* Not chosen *5.3%

* Other *3.3%

* Large *1.14%

January 31, 2011

Micro (338 for 37.39%)

1.5k · January 31, 2011

Regular: 43.08%

Small: 26.72%

Micro: 23.72%

1.3k · January 31, 2011

My stats show that is micro by a long shot.

+1.

I really thought anybody with over 100 hides would have micros at the top. I guess there are just alot of micros in my area.

3.3k · January 31, 2011

Well. If it is a competition, so far I am winning with the low low micro rate of 12% :laughing: (or loosing, depending on how you are judging :sad: ).

January 31, 2011

Micro 39.86%

small 28.91%

regular 20.21%

10.2k · January 31, 2011

Well. If it is a competition, so far I am winning with the low low micro rate of 12% (or loosing, depending on how you are judging ).

This sir, makes you the winner!! In my opinion, of course.

I've been playing with a cache page of a well-visited local cache with hundreds of visits. I tell you, I click on any profile of a 500+ find account, probably 95% of them fall into the "micro by a landslide" category. :unsure:

1.5k · January 31, 2011

I click on any profile of a 500+ find account, probably 95% of them fall into the "micro by a landslide" category.

That makes sense. In our urban area, there are 4500+ caches to be found. FOUR are sized 'large' and if you grabbed every regular available you'd still be 100 short of 500.

Also, if you live in an urban area and you like interesting/challenging hides...those are predominately 'micros'. In our area, the smalls are probably the least interesting and least challenging of the size types. IMO.

19k · January 31, 2011

Small, Micro, and then Regular

Same here.

What would be more interesting to me would be to see a breakdown by year, though.

6.7k · January 31, 2011

I click on any profile of a 500+ find account, probably 95% of them fall into the "micro by a landslide" category.

That makes sense. In our urban area, there are 4500+ caches to be found. FOUR are sized 'large' and if you grabbed every regular available you'd still be 100 short of 500.

Also, if you live in an urban area and you like interesting/challenging hides...those are predominately 'micros'. In our area, the smalls are probably the least interesting and least challenging of the size types. IMO.

Depends on what you mean by interesting/challenging. A long hike to a beautiful location is likely to end at a small or regular. A fake bolt on a guardrail is challenging and some think interesting but not going to be anything but a micro.

What cache size have you found the most of?

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