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title: "Hwang Sung Hyun (@paul)"
description: "Rank #453 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/paul
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Hwang Sung Hyun (@paul)

Rank #453 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/paul

## Standing

- Rank: #453 of 2501
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 36.05B all time
- Cost: $21216.09 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 2884
- Tracking: 2026-07-29 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 4 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.8 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 11.1M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| sustain | 30 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $1507.97 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-10-21
- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-10-21
- **thirty** (level 1 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-10-21
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-10-21
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-10-21

## Milestones

- sessions: 1.0K
- spend: 10.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 70
- Busiest day: 2026-10-15 at 6.15B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 16.24B | $3951.10 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 8.18B | $3612.42 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 7.26B | $10497.68 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 2.81B | $1958.66 |
| codex | codex-auto-review | 727.2M | $12.17 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 515.2M | $1000.16 |
| codex | gpt-6-sol | 151.6M | $52.14 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 149.6M | $104.84 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 769.4M
- Cached input: 34.91B
- Cache write 5m: 12.1M
- Cache write 1h: 244.6M
- Output: 116.8M
- Reasoning output: 35.1M

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