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title: "David Wippel (@kelkes)"
description: "Rank #1767 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/kelkes
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# David Wippel (@kelkes)

Rank #1767 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/kelkes

## Standing

- Rank: #1767 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 4.16B all time
- Cost: $2554.52 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 274
- Tracking: 2026-08-01 to 2026-09-30

## 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 3 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 12.9M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| sustain | 24 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |

## Achievements

- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-30
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-30

## Milestones

- sessions: 100
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 42
- Busiest day: 2026-09-29 at 502.7M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 3.07B | $2144.86 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 697.5M | $242.40 |
| devin | swe-2-high | 277.9M | $4.21 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 32.6M | $71.61 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 27.4M | $42.55 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 21.1M | $41.18 |
| devin | swe-1-7-medium | 12.3M | $0.26 |
| codex | codex-auto-review | 9.0M | $0.19 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 13.3M
- Cached input: 4.08B
- Cache write 5m: 20.6M
- Cache write 1h: 42.6M
- Output: 11.9M
- Reasoning output: 2.8M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/kelkes