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Counting solve

Result

The one solve everyone forgets exists until it single-handedly ruins the average.

Actually, though

In an average, the solves that survive the trim — the ones actually being averaged after the fastest and slowest are dropped.

The phrase usually shows up as ‘counting 19’ or ‘counting DNF’: a bad solve that was not bad enough to be dropped, so it stays in and drags the whole average with it.

In the wild

me8.2, 8.4, 8.1, 8.3...
me...and a 19.6
methat one wasn’t supposed to count
avgthey all count except two

Related terms

Every DNF, every +2, every second you have shaved off. Sub-X turns your csTimer history into the numbers behind the jokes.

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