A few weeks ago I wrote a post about iLike.com and the song/artist guess game. Well, I noticed that you get points for each guess you get right, but you don’t get anything deducted for guesses that are incorrect. The only thing that happens is that your percentage correct goes down, but no one sees that information.

With this in mind, I decided to beat the 27,000-something point leader so I setup a macro to automatically guess the 3rd song in the list every few seconds. I left it running and came back several hours later and it had a “rails” error, but I refreshed the page and my score had jumped from a few thousand to over 8000. After a few more hours I received a message that said “Wow! You’ve taken all of the available questions we have right now.” I couldn’t believe it; my plan had failed. It topped out at 4000 questions (even though many of them repeated themselves). I attached a screen shot of my current ranking.

Monday, May 14th, 2007 in General.