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By your definition, I'm on three attempts and two completions - but since these have all been reported on this forum within the last six months I guess you know that. Hope to try at least a couple more times this year, but my body is still trying to tell me otherwise after last week.

Looking back over my attempts log and massive book that i have i did the following

tube 2,5,6,7,8,9,10,13,14,15,16,17,22,24,33 all completed so that 15/33

tube 1 quit around 5pm
tube 3 quit around 4pm
tube 4 quit around 9pm
tube 11 quit about 11am stuck not knowing where i was after running sloane square to knightsbridge wrong way
tube 12 quit aldgate east 5pm district line out
tube 18 quit around 7pm
tube 19 quit around 9pm
tube 20 quit around mid evening i think
tube 21 quit around mid evening again i think
tube 23 quit at mill hill east at around 8pm
tube 25 quit extremely early
tube 26 quit around 7pm
tube 27 quit extremely early 3 times problems at chalfont and chesham 3 times
tube 28 quit horrendlessly bad problems top left hand corner again
tube 29 quit 4pm illness to sara
tube 30 stuck to original plan and halted at 2pm so down due to heart attack of neil then left out 2 hours got back to plan and stuck to end estimated time on network 14h plus
tube 31 stuck to end 265/270 only
tube 32 quit around 5pm

So Basically unless i,d completed because i had too because i was in groups most of the times i did until early evening way out of shot of record mostly due to problems and thought blow this im going to the pub!

I have made three attempts at completing all the tube stations in a single day.

On my first attempt (and Geoff's seventh), I got a completion and the record.
On my second attempt (also with Geoff) I had to pull out due to illness, so no completion.
My third attempt was Tube Relief, which I completed.

So if we include TR, that makes a 66.66% completion rate.

***** wrote:Hello, my name is Geoff and I will start this off. I've made 14 attempts, and only withdrawn on one of them. 13/14 = 92.8%

Therefore, i've "completed" just under 93% of the time.

Now, this is not to be able to say "I'm better than so and so because i've completed more than you, etc...", but simply to see what is the %age chance of getting round. How often does the tube stuff up statistically speaking to make it impossible to complete.

Well for me it is 0/1.

However I think there is a distinction to be made between people being unable to complete the network, and people choosing not to complete the network. Particularly now the record is so quick, I suspect most attempts are abandoned because the record is out of reach rather than it being physically impossible to finish.

For example, maybe Matt & Sam today could have finished the network in 18/19 hours had they so desired, but there would have been no point.

I think if you are purely interested in completing all stations, and you start on the first train, you would have a 95%+ chance of completing. The system is open for about 20 hrs, so if you have a 17 hr route on paper, that gives you a whole 3 hours of leeway which would be enough to cover all but the most serious of delays.

That is very true. Matt and I *could* have completed but we were already 30 mins off record time and then spent 20 minutes at Harrow and Wealdstone so that's 50 minutes down on time. With both of us having completed before we didn't see the point of carrying on.

For much of the day we were only  20 minutes off record pace which if we'd kept that up would have saw us round in 16hrs 49mins which we would have completed to get a very good PB for both of us. 

My completion rate will be shocking for that very reason

I've made one attempt, on Tube Relief, and completed.

That makes a 100% completion rate.

(and my partner-in-crime that day didnt have a clue about the tube).

I have had two attempts.

Given the details in the OP, on only one did I withdraw early, on my second one at around 200 stations. My first attempt, the charity one that coincided with the Winter Tube Olympics last year, wasn't a completion but I was attempting to get as many stations as possible. However, I had to miss a few sections of the network out in order that I could get to Heathrow in order to get my bus back, and - although I did stop 'challenging' at Hammersmith - the timer stayed timing until I hit the platform at Heathrow 123 (238 stations, 17h 38m). So, two attempts, 100% failure (all stations) rate, 50% abandonment rate. My actual 270 time stands at around three years or something. Which probably isn't a record.

RichieG wrote:I have had two attempts.

Given the details in the OP, on only one did I withdraw early, on my second one at around 200 stations. My first attempt, the charity one that coincided with the Winter Tube Olympics last year, wasn't a completion but I was attempting to get as many stations as possible. However, I had to miss a few sections of the network out in order that I could get to Heathrow in order to get my bus back, and - although I did stop 'challenging' at Hammersmith - the timer stayed timing until I hit the platform at Heathrow 123 (238 stations, 17h 38m). So, two attempts, 100% failure (all stations) rate, 50% abandonment rate. My actual 270 time stands at around three years or something. Which probably isn't a record.

You have forgotten that on both of those attempt we barely had any good luck we started an hour before some people and they caught us up doing the same route its my fault richie i persuede u to go to the pub too often!.

0/0 so whatever percentage you like

palkanetoijala31 wrote:

RichieG wrote:I have had two attempts.

Given the details in the OP, on only one did I withdraw early, on my second one at around 200 stations. My first attempt, the charity one that coincided with the Winter Tube Olympics last year, wasn't a completion but I was attempting to get as many stations as possible. However, I had to miss a few sections of the network out in order that I could get to Heathrow in order to get my bus back, and - although I did stop 'challenging' at Hammersmith - the timer stayed timing until I hit the platform at Heathrow 123 (238 stations, 17h 38m). So, two attempts, 100% failure (all stations) rate, 50% abandonment rate. My actual 270 time stands at around three years or something. Which probably isn't a record.

You have forgotten that on both of those attempt we barely had any good luck we started an hour before some people and they caught us up doing the same route its my fault richie i persuede u to go to the pub too often!.

Well, to be fair, the second time I went out the aim was to complete, so when we knew that wasn't possible it made sense to give up and go to the pub instead.

You're wrong, we COULD have got to the end. We got to Harrow and Wealdstone on the last Bakerloo up there. We then, decided that as we couldn't get back down very quickly we would abort. A LOROL train (which was still running with delays) came in after we had been there 20 minutes so we could have go that down to Queens Park to pick up a Bakerloo train which was still running from there. As the record had long gone we did not see the point in continuing, Matt was working yesterday and I had a meeting with my boss yesterday morning.

Matthew and I have done the "thrill" of completion and now have just one goal... the RECORD! If the record has gone then why waste our time and energy on getting yet another completion...

***** wrote:.... I'm always amused (and thank god it had never happened to me) when people people abort at 6/7am in the morning, because the top left corner has ****** up....

Nothing like tempting fate - eh?

***** wrote:On Tube 12 (i think?) we stopped at Ealing Broadway ...

Tube 13. The Ironly of this was that our last train into Ealing Broadway was 113.

***** wrote:
Maybe what I'm trying to get at here is at what point do people (if at all) chuck it in?

What really has inspired me to be intruiged by this, is that i guess i've always been quite fortunate in only ever giving up once (around 5pm) and all the others I've always carried on. Have i had better luck? Do others give up too easy? Or is there only a 66% (say) chance of getting round the entire network. If we could compare that figure from 5 years ago to now, it would be interesting to see as it might be an indicator as to if the network is getting more reliable, or not.

I think a factor nowadays may be the start and finish points. It is no great secret that for some people the favoured starting train doesn't leave until 0650, and if you're finishing at Heathrow then T4 shuts at 2400, so that potentially cuts up to 2.5 hours from the time available for completion if other start and finish points had been used.

For me one factor is accommodation - as I live to the east of London, if I finish late it's not very easy to get back (for some reason I don't fancy travelling through the night on night busues as I know some do). Also I drive to the start, so I've still got to pick up my car. So I usually pre-book a cheap hotel in Hounslow for a Heathrow finish. Back in April you could cancel up to 6pm on the day of arrival at no cost - this has subsequently been tightened up to 2pm. So if it all goes disastrously wrong early on I've got a bit of a financial incentive to quit. Otherwise now, I think I will press on if I can. As a relative newbie, the thrill is just completing in a relatively quick time. Perversely, I'm not too fussed about getting official recognition as a record holder (and anyway on my recent attempts I don't think I would have satisfied GWR with my record keeping).

Bit of a bump- I know, but does anyone know the statistic for the most failed attempts before achieving a completion? Or the most failed attempts never having completed?

I'm currently sitting on a 0/2 for completions, but neither attempts were abandoned. Attempt one I ran out of trains at Harrow on the Hill, Attempt 2 I knew a completion was impossible on hearing the Central Line was suspended, and therefore Leyton station was unreachable. Failure was confirmed some time after 5PM, but any hope of a decent time was lost 3 hours earlier.