🏆 Hacker News Em Dash Champions

Top 50 users by number of posts containing em dashes (—) before November 30, 2022, when ChatGPT was released

Another, more complete version of this leaderboard is here. And the HN discussion about this leaderboard is here.

Rank	Username	Em Dash Posts	First Em Dash Post	Last Em Dash Post
🥇	derefr	4,247	2009-04-12	2022-11-30
🥈	dang	4,234	2014-03-30	2022-11-30
🥉	dragonwriter	1,428	2013-05-18	2022-11-16
#4	acdha	1,323	2012-01-07	2022-11-28
#5	chc	1,218	2010-04-14	2022-11-30
#6	kragen	1,162	2008-11-30	2022-11-24
#7	ben_w	1,027	2017-01-13	2022-11-30
#8	rayiner	1,027	2011-12-20	2022-11-27
#9	Wowfunhappy	1,014	2018-10-27	2022-11-27
#10	chrismorgan	950	2013-01-06	2022-11-29
#11	mikepurvis	871	2009-12-08	2022-11-26
#12	gnicholas	778	2013-07-20	2022-11-29
#13	mcphage	752	2013-09-09	2022-11-30
#14	52-6F-62	688	2016-12-13	2022-09-23
#15	briandear	666	2017-08-23	2022-11-30
#16	JadeNB	665	2010-01-12	2022-11-29
#17	aasasd	661	2018-07-29	2022-11-03
#18	westoncb	604	2014-08-19	2022-10-20
#19	zeveb	584	2015-08-20	2022-08-18
#20	nybble41	571	2017-11-18	2022-09-16
#21	JKCalhoun	522	2016-09-23	2022-11-27
#22	evincarofautumn	514	2011-11-05	2021-01-10
#23	rosser	501	2011-02-12	2019-09-19
#24	handrous	496	2021-05-22	2021-12-18
#25	masklinn	482	2009-09-02	2022-11-26
#26	klodolph	478	2010-04-07	2022-11-26
#27	danaris	451	2017-06-28	2022-11-27
#28	deathanatos	438	2013-07-03	2022-11-19
#29	hilbert42	432	2017-03-26	2022-11-28
#30	jakelazaroff	432	2017-01-28	2022-11-25
#31	pcwalton	429	2011-09-24	2022-09-13
#32	jwr	421	2010-01-25	2022-11-28
#33	atoav	421	2019-02-07	2022-11-29
#34	sjwright	418	2015-03-14	2021-04-21
#35	gumby	417	2014-01-13	2022-11-18
#36	Spooky23	414	2014-12-05	2022-11-12
#37	cxr	399	2019-09-07	2022-11-30
#38	golergka	381	2013-09-30	2022-11-18
#39	gdubs	380	2018-02-26	2022-11-11
#40	ashark	370	2014-11-19	2018-01-13
#41	loeg	367	2012-03-04	2022-09-26
#42	tikhonj	361	2013-10-25	2022-11-30
#43	zmgsabst	354	2022-01-22	2022-11-30
#44	Freak_NL	354	2015-11-24	2022-10-03
#45	duaneb	352	2012-03-22	2016-12-25
#46	gorgoiler	343	2019-10-02	2022-11-27
#47	tel	340	2008-02-29	2021-08-15
#48	dasil003	328	2009-01-17	2022-11-06
#49	kaba0	323	2020-12-25	2022-11-28
#50	goblin89	323	2011-06-22	2022-03-06