CNPS : One year on

CNPS | penge @ 08:00, February 24th, 2007.

A year ago I undertook a challenge. A challenge that I now understand to be ridiculously stupid, impossibly frustrating and painfully slow.
I undertook the CNPS challenge. To spot car number plates with consecutive numbers, going from 1 all the way through to 999. After a year of this madness, after some amazing highs and some [...]

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CNPS : Day 109 Update

CNPS | penge @ 19:50, June 12th, 2006.

I’d like to think that hundreds of you out there have taken up CNPS, but I don’t think you have. However, I know of at least 2 poor unfortunate souls who are with me on this most epic quest, so it all seems worthwhile.
My CNPS challenge is going ok, not exceptionally well, but a nice comfortable ok. I’m looking for [...]

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CNPS Difficulties

CNPS | penge @ 16:22, April 20th, 2006.

My Consecutive Number Plate Spotting (CNPS) task goes badly. I’m currently trying to hunt down a 21, but I don’t hold out much hope.
There are two reasons why I’m not performing well in the old CNPS game. Firstly, I walk to work and don’t really walk past any major roads. Therefore, I see very few [...]

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Consecutive Number Plate Spotting

CNPS | penge @ 09:30, February 28th, 2006.

Consecutive Number Plate Spotting, or CNPS for short, is a concept created by the genius mind of Richard Herring. Essentially, you have to try to spot the numbers 1 to 999 on number plates of vehicles, in order, hence the name. There are a few rules, such as you have to see the numbers in [...]

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