(Significantly higher than my academic h-index, which is a sad comment on my priorities)
Lucky number 7
19, interesting.
4 Israelis in the top 100. Nice.
Huh? Iâm going to bed!
- And that is MUCH higher than my academic h-index. But come on, how easily can you get new beers, and how easy is it to write an impactful paper?
Also, with an h-index of 22, youâre quite badass in my field.
So easily. And so difficult. 
16 for me
I cant see how to sort this type of list. If sorting isnt possible its no use for this.
No use? So you honestly think your way is more readable? Fair enough but I donât think anyone else likes reading this spread out over 5 posts with only a mere space to separate each field.
Separating multiple groups of numbers with a space is not a good way to present such data. And in many European countries, they use a space instead of a comma or full stop as a thousands separator. I find your way of presenting this data confusing at best, which is a shame because itâs a cool stat that I enjoy seeing, and given the number of responses it looks like many others do too. I donât think the lack of sorting is a valid reason for writing off the proper way to present this data, which is as a table.
If youâre not going to do tables then at least format as code to preserve tabs and spacing.
For exampleâŠ
Nr. of countries Ratings
1 omhper 45 25765
2 yespr 41 47728
3 Fonefan 39 51186
4 Ungstrup 37 38515
5 Saxo 36 19523
6 koelschtrinker 36 21560
7 HenrikSoegaard 35 14621
8 oh6gdx 35 26485
9 Joergen 35 29257
10 Camons 34 13338
11 chrisv10 34 18533
12 Oakes 34 18892
13 Rasmus40 34 22000
But this still doesnât read as easily as a table in my opinion.
You misunderstand. I am not talking about presenting the data. I am talking about editing the content of the data, I cant see how this works unless I take a new edited version from the exell ark and create a new version of your (very nice) presentation of the data. And at the moment I cant figure out how to do that. I havent used much time so far to check though.
Ahh ok, my apologies. Without knowing your exact workflow for this Iâm not sure what would be the quickest/easiest way to do it. Just carry on what youâre doing for now, I appreciate the work gone into it regardless of the readability! If I figure out a simple way to handle this I will let you know.
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Sitting at 20
As a stopgap, feel free to use this quickânâdirty webpage which will convert your plain text tables into the fancy markup, which I presume can just be pasted straight into the forums:
http://87.119.188.75/perl/ftable.pl
Sample output on the text pasted straight from the first post:
| Rank | Username | Nr. of countries | Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | omhper | 45 | 25765 |
| 2 | yespr | 41 | 47728 |
| 3 | Fonefan | 39 | 51186 |
| 4 | Ungstrup | 37 | 38515 |
| 5 | Saxo | 36 | 19523 |
| 6 | koelschtrinker | 36 | 21560 |
| 7 | HenrikSoegaard | 35 | 14621 |
| 8 | oh6gdx | 35 | 26485 |
| 9 | Joergen | 35 | 29257 |
| 10 | Camons | 34 | 13338 |
| 11 | chrisv10 | 34 | 18533 |
| 12 | Oakes | 34 | 18892 |
| 13 | Rasmus40 | 34 | 22000 |
Thereâs very little smarts, it simply rewrites each line in the input, and barfs if it canât find the 4 expected fields in any of the lines. Smarts can be added if needed.
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Did you hardcode that to 4 columns? It doesnât really need much logic other than replacing \t with | and then also prepending and appending | to each line. The amount of \t in the first line can be used to determine how many fields there are to create the header part and the rest is just a case of what I just said.
I wrote a fairly basic old markdown table converter/generator thing some time ago Iâll have to see if I can find it again. Until now yours should be good enough. Mine also had optional stuff like alignment that other folks might find useful.
EDIT: Found it. Someone made one here: https://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables
This is why I didnât flesh mine out, someone already did a better job. (Just click on File -> Paste Table Data) and copy and paste from Excel or Google Docs or whatever youâre using. @henriksoegaard check this out. Should help you immensely.
For this task, yup:
my @rows = split(/\s*\n\s*/, $text);
my @wrong = grep { !/(\d+)\s+(.*?)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)/ } @rows;
Source: http://fatphil.org/beer/ftable.pl.txt
With just a VERY brief check on a few in the US - obviously Travlr is tops with 51 with djd07 a distant second at 36, and jtclockwork and yespr at 35.
I just jumped into the top 50 with 26 countries 
20 for me, not bad.
