Re: Challenge difficulty

Hello

as I remember at challenge checkers i've seen some time ago the "challenge difficulty" - but actually I don't see it.
Has this tag been deleted or have I to do some extra clicks to see these?

Alferic

When the cache is published and a number of people have used the checker the numbers are appearing

OK

it would have been nice to see the difficulty in advance - so I can do the difficulty of the cache - but I can adjust it later .
Are there recommendations e.g a challenge difficulty of 50 should be a D2.5?

No, the difficulty depends largely on the quantity of caches available in your local area or cachers passing the checker

Just as a hint you can use the statistics https://project-gc.com/Statistics/Top?profile_name=+Alferic&profile_country=Austria&country=Austria&submit=Filter

together with filters you can estimate a difficulty

An example
Earthcaches in 20 countries https://project-gc.com/Statistics/TopNumCountries?profile_name=Alferic&profile_country=Austria&type%5B%5D=Earthcache&submit=Filter
141 cachers from Austria pass the checker which gives a difficulty 3.5 or 4.0 again depending of the region

I use the stats
5 for 30 cachers passing
4.5 for 60 cachers
4 for 120 etc
but it depends on local conditions

This page has some interesting tables that apply to correlation of Project-gc difficulty versus geocaching.com difficulty. https://project-gc.com/w/Challenge_difficulty_per_rating_interval