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I recently took the online Jeopardy Contestant qualifier test.  I have no idea if I’ll ever be asked to do an audition, but I was surprised to find that there was no webpage/app/etc to keep track of one’s Coryat score, so I wrote one.

What’s a Coryat score, you ask?  See that balding guy?  He’s Karl Coryat.  He devised a simple system for tracking your score as you watch and play along with Jeopardy at home.  His system was named the “Coryat score” by Jeopardy fans after his appearances on the show, and is still used to this day to measure performance on Jeopardy.

His system originally used index cards and pencil, but I created a quick little HTML page with jQuery to accomplish the same thing.   You can check out the Coryat Scorekeeper at CodePlex.