多読Contest Round 4, The Time of the Register is Upon Us.

21 Sep 2011 5 Comments

by readmod in Uncategorized

Sorry about the wait! I had (and still do) have some medical related issues stopping me from getting around to this.  All that aside, all the prep work for round 4 have been done so register away! As usual I will be keep a running list of the participants here but you may check the machine-run participant list here for super-updatedness.

  1. lordsilent Reading: jp
  2. Junesun Reading: zh fr it
  3. TMJake Reading: jp
  4. e_dub_kendo Reading: jp
  5. ritobito Reading: jp
  6. japaneseme Reading: jp
  7. KonyaHurricane Reading: jp
  8. konayaakira Reading: jp en
  9. jsj2003 Reading: jp
  10. LawlCarl Reading: fr es sv
  11. Rachael_nl Reading: nl
  12. BlackDragonHunt Reading: jp
  13. Little_strokes Reading: jp en zh
  14. SimHuman Reading: jp
  15. lianaleslie Reading: jp
  16. tekcopocket Reading: jp
  17. YouAintNoNerd Reading: jp
  18. sloppier_r Reading: en fr
  19. Seizar86 Reading: kr
  20. revenantkioku Reading: jp
  21. Fujiwara23 Reading: jp
  22. Landorien Reading: jp
  23. mletterlejp Reading: jp
  24. xatlasm Reading: jp
  25. mochidzuki Reading: jp
  26. teango Reading: ru
  27. HanaYanaa Reading: jp
  28. chmijo Reading: jp
  29. HolySt4r Reading: jp en
  30. Cush1979 Reading: jp
  31. kkgtokyo Reading: jp
  32. entreview Reading: jp eo
  33. melitu Reading: jp zh
  34. gboschen Reading: jp
  35. ihan1127 Reading: de
  36. JPP4 Reading: jp ru nl
  37. darumoru Reading: en
  38. tummai Reading: jp es
  39. AnyaPop Reading: jp de fr
  40. KSaiydT Reading: jp
  41. JapanNewbie Reading: jp
  42. diogovk Reading: jp
  43. kanjidaily Reading: jp fr
  44. Kanjiwarrior Reading: jp
  45. Reveriekun Reading: jp
  46. KanmuriAramaki Reading: jp
  47. Cheftom123 Reading: fr
  48. Nekesu Reading: jp kr
  49. aiorral Reading: jp
  50. r_b_n_w_n Reading: jp
  51. Yuffie89 Reading: jp
  52. youngenstein Reading: jp
  53. zhongruige Reading: zh jp
  54. lane_hensley Reading: fr es
  55. kirakirai Reading: jp en de
  56. o7400 Reading: jp
  57. druckfehler Reading: jp
  58. danchanman Reading: jp
  59. luna_moonsilver Reading: de zh
  60. emilyrct Reading: jp
  61. bakaeigo Reading: zh es
  62. EliOmans Reading: jp
  63. MrsMalone_emmie Reading: en
  64. aqualuna Reading: en
  65. JamesASallen Reading: jp fr
  66. gsbod Reading: jp
  67. hanikamiya Reading: jp fr en
  68. mikankun Reading: jp
  69. mikotoneko Reading: jp
  70. scoutsghost Reading: jp
  71. kalek573 Reading: jp
  72. Mirohan Reading: jp
  73. michimarzo Reading: jp it de
  74. Iwwersetzerin Reading: it nl
  75. terrysycamore Reading: jp nl
  76. coffeeonimal Reading: jp
  77. takkie3 Reading: en
  78. veeontour Reading: jp
  79. curryisyummy Reading: jp
  80. rikabamboo Reading: jp
  81. ChuckSmith Reading: de eo
  82. malinkibear Reading: ru
  83. Zetsubou_Robert Reading: jp
  84. ALet75 Reading: jp
  85. Irvine1989 Reading: en
  86. f_splendor Reading: en
  87. nihontadoku Reading: jp
  88. RiverOverrun Reading: es de zh
  89. pbadger Reading: jp
  90. TheSethAffect Reading: jp
  91. megaliterarisch Reading: de jp es
  92. paboseki Reading: jp kr
  93. JoelHook Reading: kr
  94. jyemenai Reading: jp
  95. IvanMeredith Reading: jp
  96. songlines_north Reading: fr
  97. RichardMedh Reading: jp
  98. jimjamjeniko Reading: de jp
  99. x_inertia_x Reading: jp
  100. maya1924 Reading: jp
  101. Sukubasukuba Reading: jp
  102. msklang Reading: de fr
  103. maryag Reading: jp
  104. sandkatt Reading: jp
  105. Tokorooo Reading: jp
  106. Moniiku Reading: jp
  107. spinnningcat Reading: jp
  108. Amasugiya Reading: jp en
  109. missingno15 Reading: jp
  110. 1ceCreammm Reading: jp
  111. greenisgo Reading: jp
  112. ViolaHornsby Reading: It Fr De
  113. modis151 Reading: fr
  114. hurhurhur Reading: fr la
  115. momonigiri Reading: jp
  116. Joe_g_Robertson Reading: jp
  117. ta132 Reading: jp
Please see my previous post for details on how to register.

A Very 多読 Manual

21 Sep 2011 25 Comments

by readmod in how-to, Rules

I realized that tadoku may have been a little confusing earlier since all the information was spread around a bunch of old post so I am going to pool all that information into this post. This contest runs on twitter.

    1. Contest Months

The ReadMOD Tadoku contests runs during the months of January, April, July, and October. This means that the contest starts the second that the timezone you inhabit hits a contest month. example  January 1, 2012 00:00:00.  Contest rounds end on the last second of the month. Example January 31, 2012 23:59:59.

    1. Mediums and Values

You can read various types of media for the Tadoku contest. Each medium has a different points (points = Tadoku pages) per page value associated with it.  The following list will show you the viable mediums and points per page (ppp) values.

        • #book  : 1 ppp
          • #dr [6] – (double rowed) Japanese Only : 1.48 ppp
        • #manga : 0.2 ppp
        • #net : 1 ppp
        • #fullgame [1] : 0.1667 pps (points per screen) [2]
        • #game[3] :  0.05 pps [4]
        •  #lyric: 1 ppl (point per lyrics for whole song)
        • #subs : 0.2 ppm (points per minute)
        • #news : 1 ppp
        • #nico : 0.1 ppm
        • #sentences : Language dependent

    1. How to Register

Registering for Tadoku contests usually (unless I am unable to open them for some reason) starts 15 days before the start of the round and closes midway into the contest. Participants are restricted to 3 reading languages in order to ensure that they get to read extensively in each language.  When you sign up you will let the bot know you are registering by using the #reg tag followed by what languages[5] (separated with a semicolon) you plan on reading in. Example:

“@TadokuBot #reg #lang1; #lang2; #lang3″
If you only intend on reading  Japanese you simply submit “@TadokuBot #reg”. This will set your language to JP automatically.
If you only plan on reading 2 languages simply remove “; #lang3″ from the first example : “@TadokuBot #reg #lang1; #lang2″.  Participants that only plan on reading one language (that isn’t Japanese) simply remove everything behind #lang1.  If your attempt to register is successful the bot should send you back a message confirming that you have registered.

  • Setting a goal

    You may set a goal as long as the register is open.  Simply tweet “@TadokuBot #target {number}“(minus the {}) to set your goal for this round. This may also be attached to your initial register tweet.

  • Submitting your read pages

Reading submissions, like registering, are handled by the TadokuBot. In order to submit your update to the bot you simply tell the bot how much(page, screens, minutes) you read and what medium it was. You are not required to do any page conversion, the bot will handle all that for you. Example:
“@TadokuBot 51 #manga”
Be very careful to section off other non-update related numbers with a semicolon. 

If you forget this the bot will include that number in your update. Example:

“@TadokuBot 94 #book; Man Harry Potter book 6 is awesome!”
The example above is a shows the correct way to section off other numbers from an update. If the semicolon had not been placed the bot would read the update as 946 #book. Please don’t forget your semicolons.
You can submit however many updates you like at once provided that you separate each medium’s update with a semicolon. Example:
“@TadokuBot 51 #manga; 12 #book; 982 #sentences”

a. Submitting minutes

The #subs and #nico mediums require you submit the time watched. The syntax for that is HH:MM, H being hour and M being minutes. Example:
“@TadokuBot 01:50 #subs” 
The colon must be present or the bot will ignore the update.

b. Submitting pages you re-read (repeats)

If you have previously something before but would still like to read it for the contest you must tell the bot how many times you have read the text. You receive half as many points for each read. So if this is your second time reading a book you would use the #second tag. Third time? #third etc (note: the repeats only go to #fifth) Example:
“@TadokuBot 80 #book #third”

c. Undoing a mistake

If you incorrectly submit an update you can undo it by using the #undo tag. The #undo tag deletes your last update and recalculates your score.  If you previously submitted a tweet with 10 updates and made a mistake in the 5th update you have to undo all the updates that followed that tweet AND that update (thats 6 undos). Example (for 3 undos) :
“@TadokuBot #undo; #undo; #undo”

d. Submitting for languages other than Japanese

Previous examples have shown the way to submit pages for Japanese language reading. If you want to submit pages for another language all you have to so is specify which languages the submission is for. To do this all you have to do is add the language tag to the end of that particular update. Example showing multiple language submission:
“@TadokuBot 15 #book #pt; 86 #net #ko”

    1. Checking your score/rank

You may view your current page count and rank at any time by viewing the ranking page.

    1. List of all the tags

      • #book
        • #dr ( for Japanese use only)
      • #manga
      • #net
      • #fullgame
      • #game
      • #lyric
      • #subs
      • #news
      • #nico
      • #sentences
      • #undo
      • Lang tags
        • #fr – French
        • #de – German
        • #es – Spanish
        • #en – English
        • #ko – Korean
        • #th – Thai
        • #zh – Chinese
        • #it – Italian
        • #nl – Dutch
        • #pl – Polish
        • #el – Greek
        • #ru – Russian
        • #eo – Esperanto
        • #he – Hebrew
        • #sv – Swedish
        • #pt  – Portuguese
        • repeat tags
          • #second
          • #third
          • #fourth
          • #fifth

If you have any questions you can comment here or contact me on twitter @LordSilent.

[1] : “Fullgames” are visual novels where text covers the whole screen.  Example
[2] : That’s (1/6)th a page
[3] :”Games” tag is for visual novels that display text inside a text box. Example (If you are playing a game that isn’t as text heavy please count the sentences and adjust them to games for submission.)
[4] : That’s (1/20)th a page
[5] : See the language tags above
[6] : The #dr tag is only to be used with the Japanese language and must be accompanied by the #book tag. Example

多読 Round 3 Results

09 Aug 2011 3 Comments

by readmod in Uncategorized

Sorry for the delay! Having a soul crushing  job makes me less likely to do things. Without further ado….

1. RaquelLuvBooks 10367
2. BlackDragonHunt 9274.86
3. Little_strokes 7315.68
4. Ally_kk 7107
5. qqkachoojp 6245.95
6. lavinia_dinu 5183
7. sloppier_r 4732
8. TMJake 4404.86
9. JPP4 4287
10. lordsilent 4099.64
11. Seizar86 3978.59
12. kassvea 3829
13. Fujiwara23 3808
14. lianaleslie 3511.45
15. loolnashi 3421.13
16. Nekesu 3417.44
17. burritolingus 3132.1
18. hyrulehippie 2755.82
19. revenantkioku 2654.72
20. AnyaPop 2623.18
21. hanikamiya 2593.21
22. RichardMedh 2425
23. MrsMalone_emmie 2401
24. KSaiydT 2162.59
25. tzck 1867
26. e_dub_kendo 1807.01
27. momonigiri 1791.48
28. curryisyummy 1778.4
29. tekcopocket 1381.79
30. Zetsubou_Robert 1381.26
31. japaneseme 1276
32. spinnningcat 1230
33. CultureQuirk 1151.03
34. coffeeonimal 1048.27
35. Kanjiwarrior 1016.4
36. bakunin3 1006
37. mochidzuki 990.7
38. SimHuman 949.44
39. tricours 925.5
40. jimjamjeniko 906.07
41. veeontour 883.2
42. LawlCarl 862.36
43. melitu 853.15
44. chovenge 838.6
45. ihan1127 800
46. f_splendor 774
47. Sakuyan 753.5
48. r_b_n_w_n 719.84
49. Rachael_nl 670.8
50. sandkatt 664
51. Landorien 618.39
52. Junesun 616.68
53. tummai 599.58
54. ALxPlaying 590.2
55. mikankun 569.66
56. kanjidaily 557.64
57. tubatime1010 552.85
58. Yuffie89 535
59. takkie3 526
60. samhy 497.65
61. chmijo 464.4
62. diogovk 413.4
63. modis151 407.98
64. BuyYamsNow 390
65. hippaforalkus 379
66. NoraBahasa 371.56
67. aiorral 370.88
68. HanaYanaa 358.44
69. tonesvenn 355.85
70. emilyrct 350.95
71. ALet75 347.96
72. Pandakittynya 343.36
73. gboschen 335.08
74. o7400 309.51
75. JapanNewbie 284
76. KanmuriAramaki 281.87
77. jyemenai 271.41
78. missingno15 254.07
79. Cheftom123 231.2
80. zhongruige 231
81. Pharamp 223.92
82. gsbod 217.35
83. bri_tyan 214.8
84. relet 205
85. kalek573 196.31
86. mikotoneko 195.6
87. Hussien_Liban 192.73
88. _flyver 179.78
89. Lorata 172.4
90. Sakatsu 172.35
91. dmaddock1 161
92. Amasugiya 154.2
93. AjarnPasa 139.9
94. maryag 121.27
95. TakehikoKoizumi 117.74
96. Reveriekun 117.35
97. ember_seed 115.52
98. teango 114
99. ChuckSmith 113
100. glitteringloke 111.4
101. jsj2003 110.6
102. SheepyAU 107.29
103. luna_moonsilver 106.2
104. Zyaga 102.4
105. Mirohan 93.12
106. Jairzinho19 85.6
107. Calamarain4 83.74
108. Final__Heaven 80.6
109. aerielle 78.56
110. peterjcarroll 72.77
111. KonyaHurricane 68.6
112. pbadger 66.6
113. Kissemizz 62
114. starsandsea 61.4
115. domokun1134 58.4
116. ltcooper 49.53
117. jikkenkekka 44.45
118. mullr 43
119. shyxormz 32
120. mletterlejp 32
121. nowasforjason 31
122. michimarzo 26.8
123. Moniiku 25.2
124. taispy 21
125. Cush1979 20
126. amy_burr 19.61
127. hjordisa 19.6
128. crystalcampbell 19
129. Bbvoncrumb 18
130. funshinefirefly 15
131. IvanMeredith 14.24
132. Hyperglot 12
133. WelcomeGhosts 10.22
134. sinisterscribe 10
135. nerxs 5
136. Yakkoe 5
137. yoshi1225us 5
138. xatlasm 4
139. firearnok 3.88
140. languageez 2.12
141. entreview 1.76
142. lorxraposa 0.8

Our last-minute-surprise winner is RaquelLuvBooks who finished with a record setting 10367 pages (of English) read! Congrats to her and her mad reading skills.

This was really a phenomenal round! I was very happy to have had so many active participants really 多読ing. I’m extremely grateful to all of you that gave it a real shot and put in some effort, good job!

Top 3 Chinese readers:

1. zhongruige 145
2. Junesun 80.71
3. taispy 21

Top Dutch readers:

1. JPP4 2058
2. Rachael_nl 674.78

Top 3 English readers:

1. RaquelLuvBooks 10367
2. lavinia_dinu 5183
3. sloppier_r 4656.4

Top 3 Esperanto readers:

1. dmaddock1 154
2. _flyver 141.41
3. relet 85

Top 3 French readers:

1. kassvea 3829
2. tubatime1010 418.35
3. NoraBahasa 370.29

Top 3 German readers:

1. AnyaPop 828.5
2. ihan1127 480
3. Pharamp 151.35

Top Italian readers:

1. AnyaPop 1495.56
2. Junesun 437

Top 10 Japanese readers:

1. BlackDragonHunt 9274.86
2. qqkachoojp 6245.95
3. Little_strokes 5496.8
4. TMJake 4404.86
5. lordsilent 4099.64
6. Seizar86 3974.65
7. Fujiwara23 3808
8. lianaleslie 3511.45
9. loolnashi 3421.13
10. Nekesu 3417.44

Top Korean readers:

1. Sakuyan 112.5
2. aerielle 53.31

Top 3 Russian readers:

1. tricours 851.5
2. JPP4 778
3. teango 114

Top 3 Spanish readers:

1. Ally_kk 7107
2. tzck 66
3. peterjcarroll 59.98

Top 3 Swedish readers:

1. LawlCarl 531
2. hanikamiya 186
3. tummai 76.18

Top 2 Thai readers:

1. bakunin3 1006
2. AjarnPasa 143.67

Medium Champs

  • RaquelLuvBooks is our top bookworm with 10367 book pages read
    • honorable mention: Ally_kk with 7056 book pages read
  • I, LordSilent, am the top manga reader with 14346 manga pages (70.8 volumes) read
    • honorable mention: loolnashi with 13187 manga pages read
  • Curryisyummy is our top websurfer with 767 internet articles read
    • honorable mention: Little_strokes with 654 internet articles read
  • Jyemenai read the most fullgame (umineko) with 1402 screens recorded
    • honorable mention: revenantkioku with 698 fullgame screens recorded
  • BlackDragonHunt is the most ridiculous visualnovel (game) reader with 90,005 screens read
    • honorable mention: TMJake with 46897 screens recorded
  • Coffeeonimal read the most song lyrics with 152 songs recorded
    • honorable mention: Chmijo with 45 songs read
  • Veeontour watched/read the most subs with 73.6 hours recorded
    • honorable mention: BlackDragonHunt with 31.3 hours recorded
  • Rachael_nl is the most informed about the world with 418 news articles read
    • honorable mention: Seizar86 with 201 articles read
  • Momonigiri recorded the most individual sentences with 4418(!) submitted
    • honorable mention: HanaYamaa with 4067 sentences read.
  • SimHuman spent the most time on NicoNico with 7.4 hours watched
    • honorable mention: KanmuriAramaki with 7.2 hours watched
That’s all for now guys! I should be posting a nice all in one tadoku guide sometime between now and October so look out for that. Sorry this was so late!
Sign ups for October tadoku open on Sept.15.

P.S. Keep reading! If any Japanese learners want to come hang out with with us Japanese readers, we can be found in #ajatt on irc.rizon.net

多読コンテスト Summer Edition Start!

30 Jun 2011 1 Comment

by readmod in Uncategorized

I would like to wish all the participants good luck and happy reading!

Enjoy your time of 多読!

多読Contest Round 3, The Register Awaits

16 Jun 2011 17 Comments

by readmod in Uncategorized

It’s that time again! That’s right, the register is open and awaiting your tweets! Before you start trying to reg there has been a small addition made to the register. You may now tell the bot (instead of telling me) what languages you plan on reading for the completion.  Sample tweet:

“@TadokuBot #reg #zh; #it; #jp” 

The above tweet would register you in the contest reading Chinese, Italian, and Japanese. Semicolons are only necessary if you plan on reading more than one language.  If you only plan to read one language simply tweet “@Tadokubot #reg #(insert language tag)“. Those of us who are only reading  Japanese just have to tweet “@TadokuBot #reg”.

As always I will be keeping a running list here but the super automatic list is available here.

  1. lordsilent   Reading: jp
  2. japaneseme Reading: jp
  3. starsandsea Reading: jp
  4. teango Reading: ru
  5. Junesun Reading: zh it ru
  6. jimjamjeniko Reading: jp
  7. mullr Reading: jp
  8. sloppier_r Reading: en fr
  9. Zetsubou_Robert Reading: jp
  10. aiorral Reading: jp
  11. o7400 Reading: jp
  12. coffeeonimal Reading: jp
  13. jsj2003 Reading: jp
  14. gsbod Reading: jp
  15. chovenge Reading: jp
  16. kalek573 Reading: jp
  17. taispy Reading: zh
  18. aerielle Reading: kr
  19. bri_tyan Reading: jp de es
  20. KSaiydT Reading: jp
  21. burritolingus Reading: jp
  22. BlackDragonHunt Reading: jp ← Tadoku 1.0 winner
  23. JapanNewbie Reading: jp
  24. e_dub_kendo Reading: jp
  25. Landorien Reading: jp
  26. qqkachoojp Reading: jp ←　Round 2 winner
  27. Little_strokes Reading: jp ← Round 1 winner
  28. momonigiri Reading: jp
  29. Cheftom123 Reading: fr
  30. bakunin3 Reading: th
  31. Cush1979 Reading: jp
  32. KonyaHurricane Reading: jp
  33. ihan1127 Reading: de en
  34. tummai Reading: jp sv
  35. tonesvenn Reading: jp
  36. emilyrct Reading: jp
  37. mikankun Reading: jp
  38. chmijo Reading: jp
  39. maryag Reading: jp
  40. lianaleslie Reading: jp
  41. glitteringloke Reading: jp
  42. HanaYanaa Reading: jp
  43. funshinefirefly Reading: jp
  44. peterjcarroll Reading: es eo
  45. watchingmidnigh Reading: kr
  46. crystalcampbell Reading: jp fr
  47. Kanjiwarrior Reading: jp
  48. TMJake Reading: jp
  49. entreview Reading: jp eo
  50. melitu Reading: jp zh
  51. xatlasm Reading: jp
  52. zhongruige Reading: zh
  53. mochidzuki Reading: jp
  54. Pharamp Reading: de en es
  55. k2yama Reading: jp
  56. jyemenai Reading: jp
  57. pbadger Reading: jp
  58. diogovk Reading: jp en
  59. MrsMalone_emmie Reading: en
  60. Moniiku Reading: jp
  61. Nekesu Reading: jp
  62. Mirohan Reading: jp
  63. revenantkioku Reading: jp ← Not wearing a hat
  64. shajn Reading: zh
  65. luna_moonsilver Reading: de es
  66. TakehikoKoizumi Reading: jp
  67. shyxormz Reading: jp
  68. mikotoneko Reading: jp
  69. nowasforjason Reading: jp
  70. LawlCarl Reading: fr sv eo
  71. Zyaga Reading: jp
  72. curryisyummy Reading: jp
  73. sandkatt Reading: jp
  74. aqualuna Reading: en
  75. tekcopocket Reading: jp
  76. Lorata Reading: jp
  77. gboschen Reading: jp
  78. veeontour Reading: jp
  79. paperumbrella Reading: de
  80. NoraBahasa Reading: fr
  81. spinnningcat Reading: jp
  82. JPP4 Reading: pt nl ru
  83. f_splendor Reading: en
  84. SheepyAU Reading: jp
  85. Jairzinho19 Reading: jp
  86. Kissemizz Reading: fr sv
  87. Yakkoe Reading: jp
  88. takkie3 Reading: en
  89. amy_burr Reading: he
  90. ember_seed Reading: jp
  91. Brokenvai Reading: jp de es
  92. RaquelLuvBooks Reading: en
  93. firearnok Reading: jp
  94. frapyy Reading: jp it
  95. AnyaPop Reading: de jp it
  96. loolnashi Reading: jp
  97. mletterlejp Reading: jp
  98. angellibrarian Reading: th
  99. languageez Reading: zh jp
  100. IvanMeredith Reading: jp
  101. Seizar86 Reading: jp kr
  102. Reveriekun Reading: jp
  103. Sakatsu Reading: jp zh
  104. hjordisa Reading: jp
  105. AjarnPasa Reading: th
  106. nerxs Reading: fr zh
  107. lavinia_dinu Reading: de en
  108. Hussien_Liban Reading: en jp zh
  109. Pandakittynya Reading: jp
  110. Rachael_nl Reading: nl
  111. Amasugiya Reading: de jp en
  112. hippaforalkus Reading: jp en
  113. Yuffie89 Reading: jp
  114. WelcomeGhosts Reading: jp
  115. Bbvoncrumb Reading: jp
  116. michimarzo Reading: jp de
  117. RichardMedh Reading: jp
  118. ChuckSmith Reading: de eo
  119. ltcooper Reading: jp
  120. modis151 Reading: fr
  121. tricours Reading: ru de
  122. ALxPlaying Reading: jp
  123. Sakuyan Reading: jp kr fr
  124. tzck Reading: es en
  125. Fujiwara23 Reading: jp
  126. yoshi1225us Reading: en
  127. samhy Reading: jp
  128. CultureQuirk Reading: jp
  129. _flyver Reading: eo fr en
  130. relet Reading: jp
  131. dmaddock1 Reading: eo el
  132. tubatime1010 Reading: jp fr kr
  133. missingno15 Reading: jp
  134. hanikamiya Reading: ru sv jp
  135. Calamarain4 Reading: jp
  136. KanmuriAramaki Reading: jp
  137. jikkenkekka Reading: jp
  138. BuyYamsNow Reading: jp fr de
  139. logsandcons Reading: jp
  140. brightbauble Reading: jp
  141. Ally_kk Reading: es
  142. lorxraposa Reading: jp
  143. ALet75 Reading: jp
  144. domokun1134 Reading: jp
  145. Seliora1 Reading: jp
  146. SimHuman Reading: jp
  147. Aqueda_Veronica Reading: es
  148. kassvea Reading: jp
  149. hyrulehippie Reading: jp
  150. sinisterscribe Reading: jp
#jp – Japanese  #fr – French  #de – German   #es – Spanish #en – English #kr – Korean #th – Thai #zh – Chinese #it – Italian #nl – Dutch #pl – Polish #el – Greek #ru – Russian #eo – Esperanto #sv – Swedish #he – Hebrew #pt  – Portuguese

多読　Contest 2011 Round 2 Results

01 May 2011 1 Comment

by readmod in update

1. qqkachoojp 4708.03
2. Seizar86 4449.46
3. jimjamjeniko 3964.41
4. BlackDragonHunt 3827.95
5. revenantkioku 3154.25
6. Little_strokes 2250.72
7. burritolingus 2094.21
8. sloppier_r 2088
9. lordsilent 1991.01
10. loolnashi 1857.08
11. aiorral 1655.14
12. legupli 1571
13. Zetsubou_Robert 1520.23
14. mirab3lla 1514
15. Nekesu 1307.33
16. bakunin3 1114
17. RichardMedh 1075
18. KSaiydT 1033.42
19. Junesun 1020.03
20. hanikamiya 1005.79
21. TokyoBoysClub 925.34
22. loafyi 919.5
23. zhongruige 911
24. tummai 906.6
25. Kanjiwarrior 836.36
26. MrsMalone_emmie 776
27. Yuffie89 751.8
28. doviende 731
29. nac_est 721.86
30. melitu 690.49
31. incorporeality 667
32. e_dub_kendo 647.91
33. rachaeldarwin 645.07
34. Yakkoe 562.77
35. Calamarain4 545.8
36. KudouUsagi 451.4
37. KiraKirai 443.81
38. HolySt4r 431.98
39. msklang 429.05
40. Lorata 425.4
41. languageez 405.84
42. simhuman 375.91
43. jsj2003 361.26
44. mochidzuki 354.66
45. jyemenai 353.6
46. takkie3 331
47. Reveriekun 328.87
48. thelanguagegeek 257.08
49. japaneseme 257
50. chmijo 254.2
51. togijoji 252.01
52. Squallxyz 242
53. wordmoth 230.95
54. k2yama 208.42
55. Sakatsu 207.3
56. shyxormz 204.6
57. sandkatt 186
58. Landorien 184.9
59. TakehikoKoizumi 179.79
60. emilyrct 164.85
61. samhy 158.25
62. mikotoneko 154.5
63. drahcir14 149.06
64. giada51291 149
65. starsandsea 147.4
66. ongakunoiro 144.2
67. peterjcarroll 141.41
68. veeontour 133.2
69. diogovk 127.7
70. Squintox 127
71. i_Bassam 118.3
72. aerielle 107.36
73. penny_ffm 99
74. momonigiri 96.92
75. ember_seed 94.88
76. meghanventura 78
77. JapanNewbie 74
78. risasun39 69.37
79. tonesvenn 68.35
80. mletterlejp 65.2
81. HanaYanaa 62.76
82. distefam 60.6
83. maryag 38
84. ayaneko31 33.86
85. Mirohan 32
86. firearnok 30.53
87. RinoaHeartilly_ 29
88. sizzlewriter 28
89. paboseki 25
90. pbadger 24
91. TheKwago 22.2
92. syreinrage 22
93. o7400 20.4
94. kenrickchien_jp 19
95. danielpwright 17
96. Nerienea 16
97. Bluemchenblatt 12.4
98. Moniiku 8.4
99. xatlasm 6.8
100. Jaylant 6.59
101. arthaey 6.47
102. don_rivers 4
103. _nicksan 3
104. Cush1979 2.54
105. SheepyAU 2.09
106. IvanMeredith 0.8

Congrats to qqkachoojp on winning this round! As usual I’d like to thank all our participants (even Ivan) for reading with us this month. We (suprisingly) managed to read 64798 pages nearly tying last round’s score of 65130.71 pages!

Round 2 Results

Thanks nac_est!

Medium Champs

  • jimjamjeniko read the most book pages with 1799 pages recorded.
    • honorable mention:  sloppier_r with 1789 pages
  • I, LordSilent, read the most manga with 7385 pages (a little over 34 volumes) recorded.
    • honorable mention:  Seizar86 with 6962 pages
  • loafyi read the most net pages with 698 pages recorded.
    • honorable mention: Little_strokes with 340 pages
  • qqkachoojp read the most fullgame screens with 16361 screens recorded.
    • honorable mention:  jyemenai with 1544 screens recorded
  • BlackDragonHunt read the most game screens with 35302 screens (Steins;Gate) recorded.
    • honorable mention:  Seizar86 with 20492 screens
  • loolnashi read the most lyrics with 150 recorded.
    • honorable mention: Squintox with 111 pages
  • jimjamjeniko watched the most subs with about 30.5 hours recorded.
    • honorable mention:  Kanjius with about 30 hours recorded.
  • legupli read the most news with 84 articles recorded.
    • honorable mention:  loafyi with 58 articles
  • revenantkioku read the most sentences with 5005 (!) recorded.
    • honorable mention:  loolnashi with 4961 sentences
  • Yakkoe read the most NicoNico comments with 74 minutes recorded.
    • honorable mention: TokyoBoysClub with 23 minutes
The next round’s register opens up on June 15th! Be on the look out for other mosts regarding the contest in the next month or so. See you guys in July!
edit:  If anyone is interested in participating in a challenge to starting to learn a new language check out http://6wc.learnlangs.com/ for more info.
and as always you guys are invited to join us in the irc channel! ( irc.rizon.net #ajatt)

An April Fools’ prank so great, it lasted 5 days

05 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment

by readmod in Uncategorized

I wish I could call it an April Fool’s joke anyway…

The bot is finally working as it should and im ready to go live with it!

There is one syntax change that you must take note of. I previously stated that something like the following would be acceptable.

  • “@TadokuBot 1789 #book I read 3 books today in 1 sitting!”

This however is no longer the case. However what is acceptable is:

  • “@TadokuBot 1789 #book; I read 3 books today in 1 sitting!”

A semicolon must be put in between your update score update and the rest of your message. Other than that everything works as previously sated in the “for dummies” post.

Please wait until the new bot is put up (an announcement will be tweeted via TadokuBot) to start using the new update format. Sorry for the wait!

 

ITS LIVE

So that means 多読 start for me!

Slight inconvenience for our “Early Starters”

31 Mar 2011 1 Comment

by readmod in Uncategorized

About an hour from now the kiwi New Zealand crew will be starting but the new bot is acting a little oddly at times so I’ll be putting the old bot up while i finish finding the problem.

What does this mean for you?
It means you won’t have the ability to input multiple updates per tweet nor can you put extra numbers in your update tweets. Sorry for the inconvenience and I hope to have it up sometime later today.

多読コンテスト Round 2 For Dummies

29 Mar 2011 18 Comments

by readmod in how-to, update

…or not since I’m horrible at explaining things. A lot of this is going to be the same as the old post, new parts will be larger and bolded.

Round 2 starts on 4/1/2011 0:00:00 your time and ends on 4/30/2011 23:59:59 your time

Updating your score

As in the first round, we shall be using the TadokuBot to update our score*.

The biggest changes here are :

  1. You can have multiple updates per tweet.

    Place a semicolon between medium updates inorder to update multiple counts with 1 tweet.
    Ex: @TadokuBot 25 #book; 65 #manga; 36 #sentence
    If you forget the semicolon get ready to use the #undo function

  2. Updates must be in a certain format.

    3. Updates must be in the following format “@TadokuBot [number] #[optional tag like dr or language tag] #[medium]“. Reasoning for this explained in number 3.

  3. You can have other numbers in your update tweets.

    4. As long as you follow proper format, you can put extra number in your updates now. So “@TadokuBot 1789 #book; I read 3 books today in 1 sitting!” will work just fine.

  4. Languages other than Japanese

    5. If you are reading a language other than Japanese you will have to let the bot know by including the languages tag before the medium.
    Ex.”@TadokuBot 542 #fr #sentences”

  5. Submitting reading times for Subs and Nico

    Instead of calculating the minutes your self, you can now submit times using the following format “@TadokuBot H:MM #subs”. H being hour and MM being minutes. Seconds are ignored on purpose since they are worth 1/300th of a page in subs or 1/600th if its ニコニコ.

list of all the current tags

  • #book
    • #dr ( for Japanese use only)
  • #manga
  • #net
  • #fullgame
  • #game
  • #lyric
  • #subs
  • #news
  • #nico
  • #sentences
  • #undo
  • #[insert language here]
    • #fr – French
    • #de – German
    • #es – Spanish
    • #en – English
    • #kr – Korean
    • #th – Thai
    • #cn – Chinese
    • #it – Italian
    • #nl – Dutch
    • #pl – Polish
    • #el – Greek
    • #ru – Russian
    • #eo – Esperanto
  • #repeat

The rest of this is mostly copied from the last “how to” post.

The non medium tags explained
  1. #Undo will obviously be used when you make a boo-boo in your updating tweet. It will make it so that your last update never even happened. Usage is as follows: “@TadokuBot #undo I f’ed up” That last part is completely optional :p (Note: Please wait until the undo action takes place to update your score again)
  2. #Repeat was born from our new rule letting you re-read material for a smaller return (#fifth is the maximum) . Syntax goes like this: “@TadokuBot 200 #manga #fifth” #fifth could be #second or #third etc.
  3. #dr means double rowed and is to be used in case you have a book that is formatted like this. It gives a small boost (*1.48) to equal out the extra reading you are doing per page. #dr is only to be used with Japanese books and requires the #book tag to work. ( f’n BDH)

Where you stand

Q: “But Silent, how will everyone know my awesome score if I’m only tweeting what I’ve read in the last [insert time period]“

A: Fear not, everyone will know just how awesome you are because TadokuBot will tweet your completely calculated score [so you guys might want to follow it] when you update it. You can also always view the scores the old way on the ranking list(won’t be active until the competition starts).

(small note : the new system updates every minute)

* Currently working on another method of updating, hopefully will be up this weekend.

多読Contest Round 2, Register now open!

26 Mar 2011 23 Comments

by readmod in update

The register is open and waiting! The procedure is the same as last time “@Tadokubot #reg” minus the quotes. I’ll be keeping a list here but to view the super up to to date check here.

note: If your tweets are protected you will NOT be able to register/participate
note 2: Please inform me in your register tweet or here what language(s) you will be reading if its not Japanese.

  1. LordSilent
  2. Little_Strokes ← Round 1 winner! Reading Japanese and English
  3. BlackDragonHunt← Tadoku 1.0 winner!
  4. Bluemchenblatt
  5. nac_est
  6. Sakatsu
  7. HolySt4r Reading Japanese and English
  8. e_dub_kendo
  9. xatlasm
  10. takkie3 Reading English
  11. zhongruige Reading Chinese
  12. Yuffie89
  13. Yakkoe
  14. aiorral
  15. Seizar86 Reading Japanese and Korean
  16. Squallxyz
  17. veeontour
  18. don_rivers
  19. japaneseme
  20. chmijo
  21. tummai
  22. JapanNewbie
  23. meghanventura
  24. Kanjiwarrior
  25. jyemenai
  26. Cush1979
  27. Incorporeality Reading German, French, and Spanish
  28. qqkachoojp
  29. tonesvenn
  30. distefam
  31. k2yama
  32. KSaiydT
  33. Landorien Reading Japanese and German
  34. paboseki
  35. burritolingus
  36. i_Bassam Reading English
  37. loafyi
  38. TakehikoKoizumi
  39. TokyoBoysClub
  40. mletterlejp
  41. sandkatt
  42. emilyrct
  43. jsj2003
  44. Jaylant
  45. Squintox Reading Korean
  46. mikotoneko
  47. HanaYanaa
  48. momonigiri
  49. Nekesu Reading Japanese, Spanish, and Korean
  50. KudouUsagi
  51. RinoaHeartilly_
  52. skr1p7k1dd
  53. revenantkioku
  54. mochidzuki
  55. simhuman
  56. IvanMeredith
  57. Lorata
  58. loolnashi
  59. jimjamjeniko
  60. diogovk
  61. mikankun
  62. MrsMalone_emmie Reading English
  63. _nicksan
  64. o7400
  65. syreinrage
  66. peterjcarroll Reading Spanish
  67. Nerienea Reading Japanese and French
  68. crystalcampbell
  69. maryag
  70. bakunin3 Reading Thai
  71. doviende Reading German, Dutch, and Polish
  72. Reveriekun
  73. KiraKirai
  74. Mirohan
  75. giada51291 Reading Italian
  76. RichardMedh
  77. languageez
  78. qzchris Reading Chinese
  79. Junesun Reaching Chinese, Greek, and Dutch
  80. rachaeldarwin Reading Dutch
  81. sloppier_r Reading English and French
  82. thelanguagegeek Reading French and German
  83. ongakunoiro
  84. sade_wayan
  85. Zetsubou_Robert
  86. ayaneko31
  87. csnorris
  88. shyxormz Reading Japanese and English
  89. ember_seed
  90. legupli Reading Esperanto, Italian, and German
  91. starsandsea
  92. TheKwago
  93. sizzlewriter Reading Chinese
  94. firearnok
  95. hanikamiya
  96. samhy
  97. mirab3lla
  98. risasun39
  99. drahcir14
  100. penny_ffm
  101. msklang
  102. danielpwright
  103. aerielle
  104. kenrickchien_jp
  105. Moniiku
  106. pbadger
  107. wordmoth
  108. melitu
  109. arthaey
  110. togijoji

Currently have sentence per page averages for: Korean, Chinese, English, French, German, Dutch、 Russian, Italian, Spanish
Need: Greek ,Polish, Esperanto

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