I think you probably will overtake me at some point. You have already got some scores that I can't see myself beating very easily, like levels 9, 46, and 57 to name a few. You're right about the extra points in the map too; with 80 levels only a few points from each are needed to take the total score up by hundreds.

Also Strawberry, when I am looking how hard it is for me to get better scores, I am confident to reach 54k, but I am not confident to beat you. Only time will tell, but I might need to admit someday, that you optimize better the map2. Just yet I am not ready to admit that, you are only ahead for now.

If you can squeeze 10 more points from half of the levels, it will be +400 points. It definitely is not easy, but I think it is doable. I also think we will find some more optimal layout for complex levels and squeeze +50 points or something for level that way.

Cheers RB. You're absolutely right that 55k will be a huge challenge. I think once the theoretical limit is there it'll be within reach, but like you say we're still 300 points off. Without any new layouts I think I can squeeze some more out of many of the levels, but it's difficult to say by how much, or which ones have the most potential.

I think there's opportunity for more points in many of the more complex levels such as 34, 39, and 47, but these are few and far between so the overall benefit of levels like these could be limited.

I have no doubt 55k will be done, but it's certainly hard to say now how soon that will be. We'll just have to see what innovations come and work our way there.

55k is way more difficult than one may think. Both 52k, 53k, and 54k were very much doable because the current sum of best scores by different players was always much higher than the next target. For example, I know right now that if I want to score several hundred more points, I could always refer to your and Satse's layouts of levels 1, 5, 8, 11, 33 and some others. I have not even analyzed these solutions, but I see some very good scores in your maps.

But 55k - oh, 55k is different. The current technical limit is 54,699. Your current score is 54,021. The other 300 points are not going to be easy to dig.