I keep trying to join tournaments and the site tells me i have to have a timeout ratio of lower than 10%. This only happened recently, after i joined a tournament that started while i was away and i lost like 10 games. what is the timeout ratio and how do i lower it? Thanks a lot for any help

Start a new account.

or play lots of games to get your time out percentage done

but what is time out percentage? how is it calculated? i've never taken a timeout

mormagil wrote:

but what is time out percentage? how is it calculated? i've never taken a timeout

Its the percentage of the total number of games you played in which YOU have timed out in. So, if you have played 50 games, and timed out in 2 of them, you will have a 4% time-out ratio.

Time-out percentage is (t/t1)*100

where, t = no. of games lost on time

           t1 = total no. of games completed

(t, t1 are natural numbers)

in your case, 15% represents 16/110.

But surely you knew this...

timeouts are games lost on time. If you've played 10 games on the site and lost one because your time ran out your timeout percentage is 10%.  

i'm not sure if unrated games count as timeouts, but try playing lots of welcome games, you will be lucky if anyone playes till move four, so after a week or that you see he isn't coming back to the site or found something else to do than playing with you then just claim win on time (or resign) and add another game not timed out to the equation.

Yeah, I'm having the same problem too. My internet was cut off awhile ago and I lost all my games on timeouts. So I'm playing close to 20 games now just to get my timeout percentage down so I'll be eligible for tournaments. If I was you, I would start as many games as you can handle and make sure you don't time out on those.

Unrated games don't count, but nice idea uritbon!

oh, i was thinking timeout like in sports, not timeout as in lost on time. thanks a lot guys, guess i have a lot of playing to do...

Ray_Brooks: aren't t and t1 whole numbers, not natural numbers?

Ozzie,

Definitions of Natural numbers on the Web:

• The set of numbers used for counting: {1, 2, 3, 4, 5,…} 
  

Natural numbers are non-negative whole numbers (positive integers), the term "whole numbers" allows negative values, clearly inconsistent with context.

Unless of course everything's changed since I read Mathematics at University.

Ray,

I don't think everything's changed. According to Wikipedia, "natural numbers" and "whole numbers" are ambiguous.

As I learned it, natural numbers were {1, 2, 3, ...} and whole numbers were {0, 1, 2, ...}. Both of these are listed as possibilities in wikipedia. But apparently natural numbers can include the '0' or not, and whole numbers can be either of those, or even all integers.

So I was just pointing out that the numerator and denominator could be 0, nothing more. I guess we learned differently but neither wrongly.

In the Russia, we used a different Mathematician approach to some problems!

If you got one Won Abroad, it equal 2,5 points, accordingly Medvedev/Putin!