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title: "David McDonough (@david-tday)"
description: "Rank #111 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/david-tday
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# David McDonough (@david-tday)

Rank #111 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/david-tday

## Standing

- Rank: #111 of 2499
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 90.69B all time
- Cost: $54187.87 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 2711
- Tracking: 2026-08-03 to 2026-10-26

## How this tier was reached

Tier is a weighted score across the axes measured for you, so a strong axis offsets a weak one. Operator needs a higher combined score, and cost also caps the tier on its own.
Scored on 5 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 5.0 | 3.1 | yes | agents running at once |
| depth | 50.3M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| output | 4.0 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 27 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $1581.11 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 2 of 3) at $300, earned 2026-09-07
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 500
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 69
- Busiest day: 2026-10-10 at 12.18B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 72.11B | $38841.69 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 15.35B | $10901.31 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 1.65B | $2934.09 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 518.7M | $344.71 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 504.7M | $443.00 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 303.0M | $473.02 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-7 | 201.0M | $214.68 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 25.5M | $6.10 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 13.3M
- Cached input: 88.98B
- Cache write 5m: 1.13B
- Cache write 1h: 339.7M
- Output: 231.0M
- Reasoning output: 92.1M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/david-tday