Can you believe it? We are at the end of 2021, and it’s time for the roundup again!

If I have to give one word for this year, it would be: lockdown. We are currently in lockdown again in the Netherlands, and even though this hadn’t been the status for all of 2021, it sure feels like it. I can count the days I have been in the office this year on one hand!

But, this post is not about Covid, but about statistics! This is the seventh time I share the Wicked Wednesday numbers, as I am a lover of statistics!

Participants list

In 2020, I started showcasing the sites of regular contributors on a separate page. I aim to update this page once every quarter, but in the recent months haven’t gotten to that. However, this list is now updated. If you have linked only one post in 3-4 months, your site might not show up here, depending on how much you have contributed before that.

If you think your site should be on the list and it’s not, please let me know! Just click the envelope in the sidebar.

Weekly top 3 roundup

Once in about 3 months, I check my list and ask people to do the weekly roundup for a specific week. I am always looking for volunteers, whether you contribute to Wicked Wednesday or not. If you want to do the roundup, please contact me. The envelop in the sidebar will take you right to my email!

The stats for 2021

Last year I changed the way I do the stats, only showing the names of those who have linked at least one post in the past 6 months.

So, let’s get on with it!
(Note: In all the tables 2012, 2013 and 2014 are not shown, but those numbers can be found in previous roundup posts.)

First, last and best

The first prompt for 2021 was number 449 — Looking forward to 2021 — and the last prompt was number 500 — Top of the tops.

The lowest number of links added in one week was 15, and those happened for prompts 457, 465, 471, 477, 479 and 495.

There were four weeks that each had 25 posts linked (the highest number for one week) and those were prompts 449, 451, 455 and 489.

Total numbers

This table shows the accumulative numbers from the beginning of the meme.

Since beginning of the meme:	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total number of prompts	187	239	291	343	395	448	500
Number of players	226	275	309	354	404	444	462
Total number of posts linked	3893	4882	5840	7035	8402	9818	10845
Highest number of links for one week	47	47	47	47	47	78	78
Lowest number of links for one week	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Average number of posts linked per week	21	20	20	21	21	22	22

Numbers per year

Where the above table showed the total numbers from the beginning, the table below shows the numbers per year.

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total number of prompts	52	52	52	52	52	53	52
Number of players	98	110	96	114	138	134	69
Total number of posts linked	951	989	958	1195	1477	1305	1027
Highest number of links for one week	28	30	25	34	38	78	27
Lowest number of links for one week	12	12	12	14	20	14	15
Average number of posts linked per week	18	19	18	23	28	25	20

Top 10 (still active) players since the beginning of the meme

The table below show all blogs that have been in the annual top 10 since 2014, sorted on the top 10 for 2021 (those are in italics). Blogs that were in the top 10 in earlier years, but have not linked since prompt 470 (June 2021) are not on the list. All others that have been in the annual top 10 before remain in the table.

Now, as of this year, people were allowed to add two posts from their blogs in one week. In total, 11 bloggers have used this option, when they had something to share off-prompt, and something on-prompt.

Name of blog	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Rebel’s Notes	52	52	52	52	52	53	57
Steeled Snake	0	0	0	23	39	36	52
F Dot Leonora	52	52	52	52	46	52	51
Sex Matters	0	0	14	41	46	51	49
Raspberry Ripples	0	0	0	0	0	19	47
Jerusalem Mortimer	0	12	46	45	51	46	45
Corrupting Mrs Jones	5	0	1	0	9	40	44
Liz Blackx	0	0	0	0	0	31	42
Submissy	0	0	0	27	42	50	40
A Leap of Faith	0	0	0	3	6	17	39
Life of a Kinky Wife	0	0	0	0	0	39	33
Howie	0	0	0	0	0	48	30
Modesty Ablaze	28	27	24	19	25	22	21
Posy Churchgate	0	0	1	36	30	36	18
Purple’s Gem	0	0	0	6	48	31	16
C.P. McClennan	29	24	10	3	5	13	7

Top 10 players (still active) since the beginning of the meme

It won’t surprise you I have been keeping a list of every player for Wicked Wednesday since the beginning of the meme. I do it in Excel, and I wouldn’t have been able to do these stats, had it not been for that.

This table shows the blogs that added the most links to Wicked Wednesday since the beginning of the meme, but once again, it only shows the blogs that are still active (= linked in the past 7 months).

Blog name	Total links
Rebel’s Notes	505
F Dot Leonora	396
Jerusalem Mortimer	245
C.P. McClennan	208
Sex Matters	201
Modesty Ablaze	185
Submissy	159
Steeled Snake	150
Brigit Delaney	140
Posy Churchgate	129

Top blogs for top 3 posts since prompt 129

Up to prompt 126 I haven’t done a top 3, but as from prompt 127 I wanted to highlight the three posts that really touched me. For several months I did the top 3, but then started engaging others to do it too.

Below you find the total number of top 3 mentioned received per blog, from when we started doing the weekly highlights.
(Once more, you only see the active blogs.)

Blog name	Total times linked	Total top 3
Sex Matters	201	34
Rebel’s Notes	505	31
Life of a Kinky Wife	72	26
Submissy	159	25
Brigit Delaney	140	22
Pain as Pleasure	90	20
Modesty Ablaze	185	18
Steeled Snake	150	18
F Dot Leonora	396	17
Purple’s Gem	101	17

A more honest way to look at the top 3 is to take the percentage of posts linked that made the roundup. This table shows the top 15.

Blog name	Total link	Total top 3	% in top 3
Life of a Kinky Wife	72	26	36%
Braindrops	3	1	33%
Marsha Adams on Medium	27	8	30%
Mr E and lilly	18	5	28%
The Good Old Days	31	7	23%
Pain as Pleasure	90	20	22%
Lascivity	56	12	21%
May More on Medium	19	4	21%
MLSlavePuppet	24	5	21%
Patricia Ray	5	1	20%
Deviant Succubus	77	14	18%
Eve’s Temptations	28	5	18%
A Leap of Faith	65	12	18%
Sex Matters	201	34	17%
Purple’s Gem	101	17	17%
No Pants Endurance	42	7	17%
Temperature’s Rising	36	6	17%
Posy Churchgate on Medium	18	3	17%

Top 10 of top 3 mentions in 2021

Where the two tables above showed the overall top 3 stats, these below are only for 2021.

Blog name	Linked in 2021	Top 3 2021
Life of a Kinky Wife	33	12
A Leap of Faith	39	10
Rebel’s Notes	57	8
Corrupting Mrs Jones	44	8
Marsha Adams on Medium	26	8
Sex Matters	49	7
Lascivity	26	7
Submissy	40	6
Purple’s Gem	16	6
Dancer in Chains	32	6
Liz Blackx	42	6
Raspberry Ripples	47	6
The Good Old Days	9	6

YOUR numbers

If you are not mentioned in any of the table above, but you have linked to Wicked Wednesday this year, of course I do have your numbers too. Want to see how you fared this year? Just get in contact with me!

Last, but not least

I feel like we haven’t had a 2021, as with Covid 2020 seemed to drag on into 2021. Two years in one, that kind of thing. But, the calendar says we are at the end of 2021, and tonight at midnight we start a new year. Here’s to a wonderful 2022 for you all!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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