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Here's some interesting stats about the caches that the It's Not About the Numbers database knows about. Some of these stats are fairly taxing to generate, so they only update every six hours.

Remember that this data only reflects caches that are included in the queries that are uploaded to this site. If none of the 9778 cachers who have entered their stats here have found a particular cache, it won't be included here.


Database Stats

Total cachers who have uploaded stats: 9778

Total caches in the database: 686680

Total logs: 7610972

INATNers have found caches in 176 countries!


Most Found Caches in the Database

Note that this data might be a little skewed to Midwest caches because WGA, GONIL, and MIGO cachers got wind of it before it was announced to the world. Help de-skew the numbers by getting more people in your area to upload their stats!

All Caches

Cache Number of Finders Type
Four Windows 1267 Virtual Cache
What in the World Cache? 1132 Virtual Cache
Water Towers, Plain Jane or Picturesque 915 Locationless (Reverse) Cache
US FLAG 844 Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Log a Lion 764 Locationless (Reverse) Cache
The Barber Pole 739 Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Radio K.A.O.S. 677 Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Murals Across America 639 Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Änglamarken 619 Traditional Cache
Where's My Name ??? 599 Locationless (Reverse) Cache

Physical Caches

Cache Number of Finders Type
ORIGINAL STASH TRIBUTE PLAQUE 418 Traditional Cache
Un-Original Stash 354 Traditional Cache
Mission 9: Tunnel of Light 285 Project APE Cache
Mission 7: Crab Creek (Project APE) 274 Project APE Cache
Rainy Affair 247 Traditional Cache
Iron Horse 226 Traditional Cache
Mission 12: Blind Canal 218 Project APE Cache
That's a fairly good sign... 214 Traditional Cache
One in a hole? 202 Traditional Cache
Solar Sailing 202 Multi-cache

Total Published Caches by Month

This graph shows three things. Total Published Caches, which is just that, the cumulative total number of published caches in the world. (At least those that this site knows about.) Total Available Caches, which is the number of caches that are currently active. This stat is just an estimate; the date a cache is archived is not included with Pocket Query data, although that fact that it is archived is. If a cache shows in a PQ as archived, I look at the last date that it was found and count that as the last month it was available. It's not entirely accurate, but it's a pretty good guess. Both those stats use the left-hand y-axis. The green bars are the number of new caches published in that month, and use the right-hand y-axis. The bars for the most recent few months are always going to be low until all the newest caches are found and someone uploads a PQ that includes them. As time goes by, they will slowly approach the actual value.

Total Published Caches by Month

Total Terrain/Difficulty Combinations

Terrain
Difficulty   1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 Total
1 91838 44839 13186 4268 3701 1200 851 245 536 160664
1.5 40706 111883 32636 11381 6074 2311 1166 318 552 207027
2 26975 42966 52793 21516 18497 6362 3529 692 1149 174479
2.5 9273 16488 11336 11360 6200 3143 1393 347 445 59985
3 7701 11384 9193 5323 9302 3457 2392 519 620 49891
3.5 2366 3959 2722 1874 1642 1828 990 313 221 15915
4 1891 2854 2274 1198 1318 753 1451 341 286 12366
4.5 431 632 519 264 293 171 169 349 112 2940
5 477 625 472 253 299 145 164 86 892 3413
Total 181658 235630 125131 57437 47326 19370 12105 3210 4813 686680

Scatter Plots

There are some scatter plots of all the cachers in the database. If you currently have someone's stats loaded up, there will be a red circle highlighting where their point falls.

The green line is the result of the best fit analysis of all the points and would be where the statistical "average cacher" would fall on the graph for any point along the x-axis.

I'm looking at each combination of three different stats: Total finds, the total number of days since a cacher's first find, and the total number of unique days that a cacher has logged a find (i.e. the number of days they've actually gone out caching.)

Account age vs. Total finds

Being above the green line means that for other cachers with the same account age, the highlighted cacher has more finds than average.
Days vs Finds Scatter Plot

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Days caching vs. Total finds

This graphs shows who the "power caches" are. Being above the line means that when you go out caching for the day, you tend to find more caches at once than average.
Caching Days vs Finds Scatter Plot

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Account age vs. Days caching

This is an indicator of how obsessed you are with geocaching. Someone above the line goes out caching more often than someone below the line.
Days vs Caching Days Scatter Plot


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