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Message started by Jet Stevens on 05/13/16 at 13:12:30

Title: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by Jet Stevens on 05/13/16 at 13:12:30

I know there is no way to have an accurate assessment, but just an educated guess.  The mode does not matter, only the hours put into the game itself.  Between all modes "mostly" GP, I would say around 2500 hours or so.  

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by KVD on 05/13/16 at 13:49:56

I have to make an informed guess later, but it involves some calculations regarding average playing time per day during active periods and the timespan of inactive periods. It's probably between 6000 and 8000 hours, but I will choose exaggerated parameters on both extremes to come up with a confidence interval which will certainly include the actual value.

Also, I'd like to know how much time Sami has played the game and how much time Sami has spent Time Trialling on MC1. It's gotta be over 50% right?  ;D

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by Alicia Kart on 05/13/16 at 17:16:55

I'm pretty sure I played over 10000 hours. ^^

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by ScouB on 05/13/16 at 23:02:00

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/spongebob/images/7/75/Over_9000.gif/revision/latest?cb=20150718224913

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by Chraizy on 05/14/16 at 03:11:54

Not sure tbh. I spent countless hours when I was a kid playing with my neighbour, so that alone sums up to probably 500 hours... TT wise a lot more I guess, around 1500 probably...  I know I spent a lot more time with MKDD tho. Total MK time probably goes up to 12000-15000 hours... I think.

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by Antistar on 05/14/16 at 04:50:06

Never tried to calculate it. It's several thousands I guess.

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by Tom1 on 05/14/16 at 10:10:35

Cdm must increase this massively

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by Jet Stevens on 05/14/16 at 18:03:17


1E2E22380F4D0 wrote:
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/spongebob/images/7/75/Over_9000.gif/revision/latest?cb=20150718224913


Lol, I love it!

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by eoJ on 05/14/16 at 21:24:06

In 2005/2006, probably a couple thousand. My sessions never lasted that long (maybe a couple of hours at most), but I used to play a lot more before I kinda grew up. But when I was 21 and had a lot more time -- and was able to PR a lot easier -- I played a lot more frequently. Those were the days...  [smiley=beer.gif]

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by Racer727 on 05/23/16 at 15:13:57

10 hours. I've barely played it. [smiley=lolk.gif]

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by Fabrice Baro on 05/24/16 at 07:23:20


4D6774725563706368060 wrote:
I'm pretty sure I played over 10000 hours. ^^

Yeah, the magic number. That famous 10000 hour order of magnitude that Malcom Gladwell came up with. It's being dissed lately, but it still makes sense imho.

Of course one will need the motivation to go through that much practice, plus "talent" to be able to make it to the top.

I think I read somewhere that Neo has played about that much.

As for me, I made a quick calculation:
2h a week for 1994-1997
4h a week for 2005-2006
1h a week for 1.5 years (since Nov 2014)
Total: 910 hours, virtually all in TT :)

Strange, I would have thought I played more than this.

Let's try to compare the hours of practice vs. the TT ranking.

KVD, Alicia, Chris, ScouB, Antistar: ~10000h -> top 10
Joe: ~3000h -> top 20
Jet: ~2000h -> top 50
Fabrice: ~1000h -> top 120
Racer: 10h -> Rank??? (I found your name but no profile for SMK)

Of course, many play in other modes (of MKs), etc. I'm just talking about order of magnitude here.

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by KVD on 05/24/16 at 08:20:38

Yeah, a huge portion of it was not effective for my PAL TT rank at all obviously (e.g. SNESOT battle matches and the like).

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by Racer727 on 05/24/16 at 16:03:10


656261716A6066030 wrote:
[quote author=4D6774725563706368060 link=1463173950/0#2 date=1463188615]
Racer: 10h -> Rank??? (I found your name but no profile for SMK)

Yeah, I haven't signed up because I don't have the game any more lol.
I'll certainly sign up if I can get the game again.

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by MD_Neo on 09/04/16 at 05:45:55


4D6774725563706368060 wrote:
I'm pretty sure I played over 10000 hours. ^^


Probably the same. Hard to say though.

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by Mark 2.0 on 08/02/17 at 11:30:04

I think not more than 200 hours, pretty sure. Never had the game as a kid and bought it when I was like 16 (24 now). Didn't like it at the beginning but got motivated a few weeks ago when a friend started beating some of my records.

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by .Hahaae on 08/02/17 at 16:36:08

Probably about 30

Had 9480hrs logged into MKW as of like October 2010 when my old Wii died (about half of that was idle though). So like ~4000-5000hrs in 2.5 years there. I've played MKSC vastly more than any other kart though; 2011 I essentially played between 6-18 hours a day, depending on free time. Summer 2011 I doubt I had a single session under 12 hours  :-X

Edit: also counted up how many hours of COD:MW3 I had (it keeps track of time) and it's around  2100 hours on multiplayer and maybe ~50 between campaign and spec ops

Title: Re: How many hours have you put into SMK?
Post by Sumner21 on 08/02/17 at 23:39:29

Im sure I would have played at least 2000 hours by now
prob played the same of MK64 and Daytona USA.

As of August 3rd SMK has been available for 9006 days if anyone cares, so to play for 10000 would mean just over an hour a day.

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