"Everyone knows that boys duel better than girls do. It's actually a scientific fact." - Leo, "Supersensory Shakedown"

In late 2008, during the Fortune Cup, I got curious. We all know and accept as part of the genre that female duelists are far less common than male ones, and as a female I don't mind because it really just comes with the territory, but just how uncommon *are* they? My answer to this, as it was a few years before that when I'd tried to calculate just how many duels Yugi had fought and won, was a sheet of tally marks.

Tally marks are maddeningly imprecise. There's no way to figure out where you left off if you lose track of what episode you're on. There's also no way to document how you dealt with grey areas like "Self Destruction" and "The Final Duel", when the two 'Yugis' (both of which I count as a single record) duel *each other*, or how I counted "The Gauntlet is Thrown" (in which Joey says that Tea beat him three times, Yugi corrects him that Tea actually beat him *five* times, and Yugi's being right would make Crump's statistics in "Freeze Play I" incorrect, but I find it exceedingly hard to believe that Yugi can't count to five).

I calculated these male-female duelist ratio statistics, and added them to my post for 5Ds' "The Profiler". By the way, forgive me, Rally.

However, in Fall 2009 when I began studying the C++ programming language, I envisioned a far more accurate way to do this. The result, after a sparse three or four weeks of study, was a 6,000-line program written with little more than cin, cout, variables, and if statements; any professional programmer would be nauseated, but it was able to keep a far more consistent tally sheet than I could, and I could go back and directly check and change the grey areas. The statistics on this site are calculated with that program and later incarnations thereof with miscellaneous small updates.

However, that program was written by hand and repeats itself just slightly differently several times, opening the door for coding mistakes. I've found numerous unfindable errata so far and I know for a fact there are more. I'm working on a program that will be more exact (for example, if it counts Mai as a female duelist and a Battle City duelist, it also counts her as a female Battle City duelist, something I could easily forget to do) and output its results in the format I've tailored by hand in putting these statistics online for viewing. It'll take some time, and 'til then I'll alter my statistics episode-by-episode as we go.

For now, know that that's the source of my statistics, I plan to make them even more accurate and for now I'd estimate perhaps 90% accuracy, and I hope that you enjoy them and find them useful.

-Clio