Every contract address that lands on X or Telegram gets a timestamp. When two accounts post the same one, that's a race — and we record the finishing order. Do that a few hundred times and it stops being an opinion about who's good.
Ranked by how often an account wins the races it enters. Reach is shown beside it on purpose — the two columns disagree more than they agree, and that disagreement is the whole point.
Counting races…
A ranking is only worth reading if everyone is measured the same way.
A token only counts once two different accounts have posted its address themselves. One account posting into silence proves nothing — there was nobody to beat.
Whoever posts the address first sets zero. Everyone after is measured from that moment, down to the second, and that gap is what the board is built on.
An address inside a quoted post is still your call, and plenty of the earliest ones sit exactly there. A forward or repost enters you in the race but can never win it — passing something along isn't finding it.
Typing $ABC doesn't enter you. If it did, whoever tweets the ticker would beat whoever posted the address, and the order would stop meaning anything.
Paste the address of anything that ran and the whole race comes back — everyone who touched it, in order, with the gaps intact. Working backwards from something that already ran is how you find accounts worth following.
Sample data. The accounts and finishing order here are made up; the address is a real one you can look up, shown so the format is recognisable.
Call channels and groups, read as they post. A forwarded message traces back to the channel it started in, so a repost never gets logged as the original.
Posts, replies, and quotes. Addresses buried inside a quoted post get pulled out too — a lot of the earliest calls sit exactly there.
Star the accounts you already follow and Quarry Hunter keeps their record beside them. After a couple of weeks the list mostly prunes itself — you'll see which ones have never once finished first.
Counting races…