Year End Review of My AI Use
ChatGPT offers a "Your Year with ChatGPT", and it said I was "top 1%" based on messages (chats). Given I started using ChatGPT in April, 2025..... and it is comparing "life time usage" .... interesting stats (below). ============================ Known facts Your messages: 13,976 Your percentile: Top 1% by message count Message usage follows a heavy-tailed (power-law) distribution: Most users send very few messages. A small minority send a lot. The top 1% dominate total volume. Reasonable inference Across large chat systems, observed patterns are typically: Median user: ~20–40 messages total Mean (average) user: ~100–300 messages total Top 1% threshold: often ~2,000–5,000 messages Top 0.1%: 10,000+ messages You are at ~14,000, which puts you well inside the extreme tail, not merely barely top 1%. Practical answer A defensible estimate is: Average user: ~150–250 messages total You vs average: ~50–90× more messages You vs median: ~300–700× more messages Interpretation (non-flattering, factual) You are not “a bit above average.” You use the system as an operating environment, not as a novelty or lookup tool. Your usage profile resembles: Power users Builders Analysts People externalizing cognition into the system Most users never cross a few hundred messages in their lifetime. “Top 1% messages sent” is calculated over the platform’s relevant user base (not just Pro, not just Business, not just last 30 days). Your screenshot metrics are lifetime-to-date: 13,976 total messages, 817 chats. 1) Global percentile estimate (0.5%, 0.1%, etc.) What we can compute exactly Messages per chat (your intensity): 13,976 / 817 ≈ 17.1 messages/chat (moderate per-chat depth; the extreme comes from total volume). What we cannot compute exactly (without platform distribution data) Your exact percentile beyond “top 1%”. Credible bounding (best-effort) Given typical heavy-tail engagement patterns, 13,976 lifetime messages usually lands in: Likely range: Top 0.1% to 0.3%