Wheels

Hooray for me, because I've passed my driving test! I'm fully allowed to drive like one of those grown-ups I've been hearing about, scaring cyclists and shouting at other vehicles for getting in my way.

Four faults on the test, like a horse knocking off the top bar of a fence, only less cruel and inhumane. It was pretty straightforward, actually, but I still feel a great sense of pride in achieving what probably only half of the spotty, dim-witted 17-year-old population of this country do, and passing first time.

Now when someone says to me "And naturally you've got a full driving licence?" I can reply "Yes, naturally, wouldn't it be silly if I was a 38-year-old accountant who couldn't drive?" and we can all have a good laugh about it.

When they add "And you've got a car, of course," I'll still have to say "No, I can't afford one, but I've got a bike and the brakes still just about work."

Four down, one to go!

 Qualification for the XMT continues apace! Who will make the coveted top 16? Well, I think words will probably be a low-scoring discipline, with an extremely difficult target of 49 for 100 points, so the people sitting there at the moment are looking good.

Nelson's already submitted a words score before I had a chance to copy-and-paste the leaderboard, so he's in the wrong place here, but since he's not trying to qualify anyway it doesn't really matter.

Marlo looks safe, and Katie's still in with a good chance of joining Team Britain. And Clay's still an outside possibility, too! We'll be horribly outnumbered by Germans and Mongolians, but it'd be nice if we could beat the Phillipines, Sweden and the USA in the all-important number-of-competitors stakes.

Let's all put in a big push for the last week of qualifying, whatever country you come from! Good luck to one and all!

Rank	Name	Cards	Images	Names	Numbers	Words	Total
	Simon Reinhard	133.00	123.61	108.70	81.16		446.47
	Boris Konrad	74.96	169.49	100.00	74.99		419.44
1	Johannes Zhou	69.54	154.00	117.39	71.41		412.34
2	Yanjindulam Altansuh	52.15	167.22	113.04	67.25		399.66
	Nelson Dellis	52.32	72.99	117.39	66.15		308.85
	Ben Pridmore	107.08	133.87	65.22	79.50		385.67
3	Enhkjin Tumur	57.90	158.23	65.22	92.97		374.32
4	Enkhmunkh Erdenebatkhaan	89.34	75.78	78.26	117.53		360.91
5	Johann Randall Abrina	99.06	116.28	100.00	37.85		353.19
6	Tuuruul Myagmarsuren	46.29	123.15	113.04	37.85		320.33
7	Marwin Wallonius	58.70	115.43	73.91	71.81		319.85
8	Lance Tschirhart	70.19	66.86	100.00	73.58		310.63
9	Marlo Knight	62.88	101.11	91.30	55.18		310.47
10	Tsogbadrakh Saikhanbayar	51.58	130.26	78.26	49.05		309.15
11	Alexander Mullen	53.04	101.97	82.61	69.70		307.32
12	Anne Reulke	43.87	125.47	100.00	37.38		306.72
13	Annalena Fischer	42.18	129.70	86.96	44.04		302.88
14	Purevjav Erdenesaikhan	69.23	84.22	65.22	76.92		295.59
15	Akjol Syeryekkhaan	37.96	80.52	121.74	52.92		293.14
16	Johnny Briones	45.69	93.87	100.00	38.33		277.89
17	Konstantin Skudler	34.59	116.96	78.26	42.71		272.52
18	Katie Kermode	30.37	76.36	117.39	42.44		266.56
19	Tsetsegzul Zorigtbaatar	51.50	94.16	65.22	49.92		260.80
	Mark Anthony Castaneda		87.90	95.65	73.32		256.87
20	Tuvshintugs Nyamdorj	53.99	53.74	65.22	75.88		248.83
21	Clay Knight	33.74	96.96	69.57	45.43		245.70
22	Juliane Fischer	23.62	122.25	65.22	33.06		244.15
23	Norbert Reulke	37.96	104.57	60.87	40.46		243.86
24	John Graham	24.46	70.03	95.65	32.10		222.24
25	Brice Trejo	44.64	81.26	43.48	43.83		213.21
26	Florian Dellé	30.37	89.07	60.87	32.58		212.89
27	Oddbjørn By	23.62	81.39	69.57	37.38		211.96
28	Brad Zupp	42.18	62.88	91.30			196.36
29	Khaliun Bolor-Erdene	32.90	55.35	69.57	36.42		194.24
30	Omkar Kibe	29.53	62.37	60.87	25.88		178.65
31	Chris Forde	10.97	71.77	65.22	14.38		162.34
32	David Billington	25.31	35.00	69.57	28.75		158.63
33	Luis Angel Echeverria	22.78	56.78	52.17	25.40		157.13
34	Javier Moreno	19.40	55.11	65.22	15.33		155.06
35	Kevin Horsley		80.39		64.68		145.07
36	Andrej Savickij	26.99	50.00	26.09	35.46		138.54
	Simon Orton		59.93	78.26			138.19
	Idriz Zogaj		46.67		22.04		68.71
37	Alexis Rodríguez	23.62					23.62