User:EpicSkills32

EpicSkills32 is a legendary user who joined in December 2011. He is from the Bay Area, California, where he has been homeschooled for most of his life.

Username Info

Pronunciation and Capitalization

EpicSkills32 is a fairly straightforward username, spelled as one would think and capitalized between words. The name is read in English as "Epic" - "Skills" - "thirty-two." The "32" is read as a single number as opposed to "three" - "two."

Name Origin

The username "EpicSkills32" was chosen out of sheer pride and frivolity. Designed to incorporate the user's self-proclaimed talents into a representative tag, the "Skills" in question include but are not limited to the following: math, science, swimming, basketball, ping-pong, piano, cello, pen-spinning, yo-yo, Mario Kart, and writing. For a more catchy username, the descriptive adjective "Epic" was chosen to precede the all-comprehensive base tag.

The number 32 is a favorite number of the corresponding user.

FTW

as of 8/26/15

The highest rating reached by this user is 1808. The lowest rating reached by this user is 853. The current rating of this user is 1337.

This user has played 2292 FTW games and 1304 Countdown games, a total of 3596 games. He has won 656 FTW games and 547 Countdown games. His lifetime FTW and Countdown ratings are 1301 and 1220 respectively.

Alcumus

as of 8/26/15

EpicSkills32 gave up on Alcumus a while ago, but not before attaining the honor of being number one on the geometry level leaderboard.

Blog

EpicSkills32 is the founder, owner, and primary contributor to a blog currently known as "Seems." Seems was created on January 14, 2012, almost a month after he joined. Although EpicSkills32 began posting on his blog almost immediately after creating the blog, many of his oldest posts are now deleted.

Seems has, as of...

• ... 26 August 2015: 543 entries, 1544261 visits, 600 comments, and 428 shouts.
• ... 31 August 2016: 566 entries, 1567412 visits, 661 comments, and 446 shouts.

The CSS for Seems is a combination of AoPS-user-created CSS's, namely Ambiance from thkim1011 and City from NeoMathematicalKid. The CSS editing and combining was done by EpicSkills32 himself.

Trivia

• EpicSkills32 lives in the Bay Area, a hotspot for ridiculously talented mathletes. Due to this convenient placement, he has the honor of knowing users such as briantix and programming1157 personally, as well as having seen users such as v_Enhance, Petaminx, fractals, apple.singer, linpaws, ninjashiloh, Special, BOGTRO, pi37, in real life.
• His blog, Seems, (as of 8/26/15) has the second highest number of views of any blog on AoPS. It is second only to rrusczyk's blog.
• EpicSkills32 has seen the alert box in use.
• EpicSkills32 was the one who suggested the idea of a Hall of Fame for reaper.
• In Reaper Game 32, EpicSkills32 finished 2nd by the largest margin ever in a reaper game. In other words, as second place he lost to first place by the most lost by anyone ever in a legitimate reaper game.
• EpicSkills32 won a Greed Control game, possibly Game 3 or 4. (GC games are not currently tracked) He accomplished this feat despite having missed 2 days of the game and suffering from as much as a 3 point deficit at one point. He employs the strategy most commonly used by top-tier GC players.
• A few days before the huge AoPS update in March 2015, EpicSkills32 wrote a heartfelt post on the FTW forum in which he outlined his experience as an addicted FTWer. This post went on to receive 10+ thanks, but the more interesting part was that this post was his first ever known post to have been rated a solid 6 cubes (the maximum number of cubes possible; i.e. the highest rating possible).