Thanks to some of my dear friends (you know who you are), I got infected with a virus called Geocaching back in 2011. Since then it has brought me to many places I wouldn’t have seen without it.


Statistics updated on 2023-03-11

I’ve found 1603 unique caches since my first cache find on 20 November 2011.

Difficulty – Terrain – Matrix

  T1.0 T1.5 T2.0 T2.5 T3.0 T3.5 T4.0 T4.5 T5.0 Σ ∅T
D1.0 74 55 7 6 2 1 1 0 0 146 1.36
D1.5 42 126 53 11 7 3 1 0 1 244 1.66
D2.0 48 222 235 62 63 19 12 3 1 665 2.00
D2.5 19 69 65 37 24 19 7 2 4 246 2.20
D3.0 21 30 40 25 25 6 6 4 2 159 2.24
D3.5 5 14 20 9 7 3 1 4 1 64 2.30
D4.0 4 10 7 4 3 3 2 1 0 34 2.21
D4.5 1 10 6 3 1 1 0 0 0 22 1.91
D5.0 3 14 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 23 1.89
Σ 217 550 434 158 133 57 30 14 10 1603 1.96
∅D 1.83 2.10 2.23 2.41 2.40 2.56 2.45 2.93 2.80 2.19 2.07

D1.0 and D1.5 are shaded as I try to follow a D2+ quality cache policy (few exceptions apply);
to get from ~2.19 to a difficulty average of ~2.30 it takes: 883 D2.5s, 253 D3.0s, 148 D3.5s, 105 D4.0s, 81 D4.5s or 66 D5.0s;
to get from ~1.96 to a terrain average of ~2.10 it takes: -2305 T2.0s, 570 T2.5s, 254 T3.0s, 163 T3.5s, 121 T4.0s, 96 T4.5s or 79 T5.0s;
there are 9 holes in the matrix

Country overview

Country Count Share
Germany 973 60.7%
Denmark 345 21.5%
Italy 48 3.0%
Austria 47 2.9%
United States 42 2.6%
Japan 41 2.6%
Australia 28 1.7%
Norway 23 1.4%
Switzerland 15 0.9%
China 11 0.7%
United Kingdom 8 0.5%
Sweden 7 0.4%
Czechia 5 0.3%
Netherlands 3 0.2%
Spain 2 0.1%
Romania 2 0.1%
France 1 0.1%
Mexico 1 0.1%
Slovakia 1 0.1%

Cache type overview

Cache type Count Share
Traditional Cache 1461 91.1%
Multi-cache 72 4.5%
Unknown Cache 58 3.6%
Earthcache 6 0.4%
Letterbox Hybrid 4 0.2%
Giga-Event Cache 1 0.1%
Webcam Cache 1 0.1%

Cache container overview

Container size Count Share
Micro 859 53.6%
Small 488 30.4%
Regular 182 11.4%
Other 56 3.5%
Not chosen 12 0.7%
Large 6 0.4%

Cache history

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Σ % ∅/day
2011 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 27 75 102 6.4 2.49
2012 2 0 9 0 19 47 20 33 25 50 42 8 255 15.9 0.70
2013 36 39 16 19 6 15 0 23 6 12 3 11 186 11.6 0.51
2014 19 0 3 0 0 4 10 85 71 4 32 6 234 14.6 0.64
2015 17 6 23 35 12 10 31 26 49 19 12 0 240 15.0 0.66
2016 7 14 0 12 24 17 5 20 17 10 1 7 134 8.4 0.37
2017 0 0 2 17 20 5 15 6 12 7 0 5 89 5.6 0.24
2018 0 1 12 9 29 1 1 33 0 3 3 1 93 5.8 0.25
2019 0 1 10 5 8 20 0 5 0 0 0 0 49 3.1 0.13
2020 8 0 0 0 4 0 0 12 0 0 0 2 26 1.6 0.07
2021 1 0 8 16 0 0 2 39 0 5 23 0 94 5.9 0.26
2022 2 6 0 24 2 11 0 9 3 1 7 8 73 4.6 0.20
2023 13 11 4 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 28 1.7 0.32
Σ 105 78 87 137 124 130 84 291 183 111 150 123 1603   0.39

Find days overview

  01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Σ  
Jan 3 12 13 12 3 4 0 0 0 9 0 3 7 0 0 0 0 4 11 7 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 0 3 5 0 105 16/31
Feb 3 15 5 0 1 0 13 2 3 0 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 16 0 1 1 0 1     78 15/29
Mar 4 0 1 5 2 5 1 7 1 2 0 2 2 0 3 3 3 1 1 1 7 0 0 2 3 0 0 10 12 3 6 87 24/31
Apr 6 0 0 1 6 16 0 0 17 14 17 21 4 15 0 6 2 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0   137 15/30
May 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 22 9 1 0 2 13 1 6 6 4 11 0 1 0 10 17 3 4 0 1 4 124 20/31
Jun 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 14 13 0 0 8 0 1 1 10 17 11 5 0 0 0 4 3 15 0 0 0 6 17   130 16/30
Jul 2 0 8 2 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 1 5 1 11 0 2 2 1 2 4 4 1 2 1 4 2 0 3 17 1 84 24/31
Aug 0 5 10 11 2 6 1 3 10 4 5 2 0 28 18 49 24 27 25 8 2 5 0 2 19 1 8 4 2 2 8 291 28/31
Sep 7 14 3 9 10 14 15 8 11 5 6 1 11 2 14 11 6 0 5 6 4 0 8 0 9 0 0 0 4 0   183 23/30
Oct 1 0 0 12 5 6 17 0 0 0 5 1 2 1 2 0 4 10 0 7 0 0 0 5 4 10 5 7 0 1 6 111 20/31
Nov 15 12 3 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 2 7 5 8 4 16 5 9 9 7 13 9 0 2 0 8 3 0 3 3   150 25/30
Dec 3 0 4 4 0 1 0 4 0 0 9 3 7 9 0 9 0 0 6 2 5 1 1 3 5 8 12 2 13 6 6 123 23/31
Σ 49 58 47 60 29 52 53 42 64 35 66 58 49 65 55 121 64 74 69 44 46 23 23 35 66 61 35 27 47 55 31 1603  

Alphanumeric challenges

Name 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 33/36
Owner 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 31/36
Placed 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 31/36

Hiding days overview

  01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31  
Jan 2 2 3 3 2 4 3 2 1 3 2 2 1 0 4 0 7 9 7 1 5 3 4 6 3 4 1 1 1 3 2 29/31
Feb 0 4 1 2 1 2 3 2 1 4 3 2 7 0 8 6 7 0 1 4 0 2 1 0 5 3 7 5 2     24/29
Mar 7 2 1 1 6 9 6 2 5 3 4 1 6 3 3 24 4 1 18 5 5 5 3 5 7 9 2 3 3 8 3 31/31
Apr 2 1 18 3 11 4 3 3 4 7 3 2 9 11 7 5 22 19 5 1 3 7 11 7 4 1 3 0 13 4   29/30
May 5 5 4 2 3 12 3 3 0 6 4 3 22 4 17 5 0 3 8 7 15 3 2 6 3 5 11 10 16 2 3 29/31
Jun 5 4 1 8 9 25 6 1 3 5 8 3 3 5 1 0 5 5 9 2 2 6 2 4 2 6 14 2 6 4   29/30
Jul 6 3 1 2 4 2 1 7 3 7 12 3 5 9 2 3 1 1 10 4 4 8 3 4 4 9 1 2 5 3 8 31/31
Aug 8 4 5 4 4 2 5 1 4 12 5 1 2 6 7 5 1 3 3 4 7 11 3 19 1 9 1 5 4 3 8 31/31
Sep 9 5 3 3 4 6 1 3 4 2 3 2 1 7 8 16 4 3 0 5 7 1 12 2 12 1 7 3 4 6   29/30
Oct 8 1 5 2 2 3 8 4 4 2 2 10 5 6 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 5 3 5 1 2 7 2 0 2 7 30/31
Nov 14 2 2 3 0 3 3 1 2 3 7 0 14 2 2 2 0 3 19 2 4 10 2 2 0 1 1 1 1 3   26/30
Dec 1 0 3 1 1 4 1 3 0 1 0 2 1 3 0 4 2 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 2 4 4 2 2 2 11 27/31