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I have started folding and trying to understand what I have been accomplishing in the last 2 days. The problem is that I do not know what stats to trust. My web console says i have 10,405 points. https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/SK69 says I have 12,486 points and 6 WU. https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com ... &u=1077240 says I have 2081 points and 4 WU. https://apps.foldingathome.org/bonus says I have completed only 1 WU. Is there any recommendation on which stat page should i trust more?

Additionally, I had started with user name 'SK' but i felt it was not showing correct data. I thought maybe it was incorrectly picking up other peoples sats, so i changed my name to 'sk69'. I thought the passkey was tied to an email address, but for both usernames, on the same email id, I got two different passkeys. Right now I am using 'sk69' userid. I am confused here too, why I got different passkey.

Stats are tied to nickname, so when you change it, old nickname takes the points with them. passkey is there for quick return bonus, and is tied to email, it is not a password for your nickname and it will not tell stat page that you changed your nickname (though I might be wrong on that, as I do not change my nicknames). Short nicknames are not recommended, we have imagination, being different from others might be very interesting
I always use extreme overclockers stat page, because it is very detailed. It gets updated every 3hours.
In past week stat servers had some brainfarting issues, and stat reporting was delayed. But now it seems everything is kinda working.

muziqaz wrote:Stats are tied to nickname, so when you change it, old nickname takes the points with them. passkey is there for quick return bonus, and is tied to email, it is not a password for your nickname and it will not tell stat page that you changed your nickname (though I might be wrong on that, as I do not change my nicknames). Short nicknames are not recommended, we have imagination, being different from others might be very interesting
I always use extreme overclockers stat page, because it is very detailed. It gets updated every 3hours.
In past week stat servers had some brainfarting issues, and stat reporting was delayed. But now it seems everything is kinda working.

If I am using a passkey, is it still a bad idea to have a small nickname? Does it mean that even though I am using passkey, my stats might get mixed with other people?

sk69 wrote:...If I am using a passkey, is it still a bad idea to have a small nickname? Does it mean that even though I am using passkey, my stats might get mixed with other people?

A short nickname like Joe or Jane can be very common which means that your username is no longer unique. Thus, stats will be combined and third party sites may combine it too. They way you can track your score is to use your username and passkey.