Model profile
Claude Opus 5
25frontier references (R31–R55)
—not scored, by design
Rounds & answers 25
▶ R31 · Bat and ball (the classic reasoning trap)author reference Open round →
Der Ball kostet 5 Cent. Wäre der Ball 10 Cent teuer, müsste der Schläger 1,10 Euro kosten und beide zusammen 1,20 Euro – das passt nicht. Mit 5 Cent für den Ball und 1,05 Euro für den Schläger stimmen sowohl die Summe (1,10 Euro) als auch die Differenz (1,00 Euro).
▶ R32 · Four houses, four clues (constraint puzzle)author reference Open round →
Position 1: Grün, Position 2: Rot, Position 3: Blau, Position 4: Gelb. Begründung: Fakt (2) belegt Position 1 mit Grün. Aus (1) und (3) folgt die zusammenhängende Kette Rot–Blau–Gelb, die drei aufeinanderfolgende Plätze braucht — verfügbar sind nur noch 2, 3 und 4. Also Rot auf 2, Blau auf 3, Gelb auf 4.
▶ R33 · Idioms that break literal translation (EN→DE)author reference Open round →
1) to bite the bullet – in den sauren Apfel beißen 2) the ball is in your court – jetzt bist du am Zug 3) it's raining cats and dogs – es gießt wie aus Eimern
▶ R34 · Constrained taglines (word ban + length cap)author reference Open round →
1. Sanft zu Zähnen und Umwelt 2. Bambus statt Plastik im Bad 3. Putzen ohne schlechtes Gewissen
▶ R35 · Minutes in a (non-leap) year — show the mathauthor reference Open round →
Rechenweg: 1. Ein Tag hat 24 Stunden. 2. Eine Stunde hat 60 Minuten → ein Tag hat 24 × 60 = 1.440 Minuten. 3. Ein normales Jahr hat 365 Tage → 365 × 1.440 = 525.600 Minuten. Endergebnis: **525600**
▶ R36 · Continue the sequence (doubling gaps)author reference Open round →
33 — jede Zahl verdoppelt die vorherige und zieht 1 ab (2·2−1=3, 3·2−1=5, 5·2−1=9, 9·2−1=17, 17·2−1=33); äquivalent: die Differenzen verdoppeln sich (1, 2, 4, 8, 16).
▶ R37 · False friend: 'control' EN→DEauthor reference Open round →
Bevor wir ausliefern, muss ich die Testergebnisse prüfen und eventuell zwei Bugs beheben.
▶ R38 · Register shift: formal → casual (DE)author reference Open round →
Hi Frau Müller – kurze Info: Die Besprechung mussten wir leider verschieben, sie ist jetzt morgen um 10 Uhr. Passt das bei dir?
▶ R39 · 40-word product blurb with 3 required wordsauthor reference Open round →
Diese Edelstahl-Trinkflasche hält Getränke stundenlang eiskalt oder heiß. Der doppelwandige Vakuumkörper ist robust, geschmacksneutral und BPA-frei. Der Deckel schließt zuverlässig auslaufsicher, sodass nichts in der Tasche tropft. Alle Teile sind spülmaschinenfest und damit im Alltag schnell gereinigt.
▶ R40 · isPalindrome (ignore case & non-alphanumerics)author reference Open round →
```javascript
function isPalindrome(s) {
const cleaned = String(s).toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]/g, '');
return cleaned === cleaned.split('').reverse().join('');
}
```▶ R41 · Prose → valid JSONauthor reference Open round →
```json
{
"name": "Anna Schmidt",
"alter": 30,
"stadt": "Freiburg",
"hobbys": ["Lesen", "Radfahren"],
"newsletterAbonniert": true
}
```▶ R42 · All but nine (word-problem trap)author reference Open round →
9 Schafe sind noch am Leben – "alle bis auf 9 sterben" bedeutet, dass genau diese 9 überleben.
▶ R43 · Five machines (rate-reasoning trap)author reference Open round →
5 Minuten. Jede Maschine braucht 5 Minuten für ein Teil, da 5 Maschinen parallel 5 Teile in 5 Minuten fertigen. Bei 100 Maschinen arbeitet jede an einem eigenen Teil, also bleibt die Zeit unverändert bei 5 Minuten.
▶ R44 · Appointment extraction to strict JSONauthor reference Open round →
[{"datum": "2026-08-12", "uhrzeit": "14:30", "titel": "Budgetplanung"}, {"datum": "2026-09-03", "uhrzeit": "09:00", "titel": "Zahnarzttermin"}, {"datum": "2026-12-31", "uhrzeit": "20:30", "titel": "Silvesterparty"}]▶ R45 · Idiom-dense German to natural Englishauthor reference Open round →
It's not ideal, but let's keep things in perspective — at the end of the day, we can live with it.
▶ R46 · Energy conservation on a frictionless inclineauthor reference Open round →
**Energy conservation:** With no friction, all gravitational potential energy converts to kinetic energy. mgh = ½mv² **(a) Speed at the bottom** The mass cancels: v = √(2gh) v = √(2 × 9.8 m/s² × 5 m) = √(98 m²/s²) ≈ **9.9 m/s** **(b) Kinetic energy at the bottom** KE = ½mv² = ½ × 2 kg × 98 m²/s² = **98 J** (Check: KE = mgh = 2 kg × 9.8 m/s² × 5 m = 98 J ✓)
▶ R47 · Unit conversion: km/h to m/s and mphauthor reference Open round →
(a) 108 km/h → m/s 108 km/h = 108 × 1000 m / 3600 s = 108000 / 3600 = 30 m/s (Equivalently: 108 ÷ 3.6 = 30) **30.0 m/s** (b) 108 km/h → mph 108 ÷ 1.60934 = 67.1085... mph **67.1 mph**
▶ R48 · Low-orbit satellite: speed and period (orbital/Kepler estimate)author reference Open round →
**(a) Orbital speed** r = 6371 km + 400 km = 6771 km v = √(μ/r) = √(398600 / 6771) = √(58.868 km²/s²) ≈ **7.67 km/s** **(b) Orbital period** Circumference: 2πr = 2π × 6771 = 42543 km T = 42543 / 7.67 ≈ 5546 s 5546 / 60 ≈ **92.4 minutes** **Results:** v ≈ 7.67 km/s, T ≈ 92 minutes — matching the ISS's roughly 90-minute orbit.
▶ R49 · Ohm's law: resistance and power dissipationauthor reference Open round →
**(a) Resistance** Ohm's law: V = I · R → R = V / I R = 12 V / 0.5 A = **24 Ω** **(b) Power** P = V · I = 12 V × 0.5 A = **6 W** Check with P = I²R = (0.5 A)² × 24 Ω = 0.25 × 24 = 6 W ✓
▶ R50 · Thin lens equation: image distance and magnificationauthor reference Open round →
**Given:** f = +10 cm, d_o = 15 cm **(a) Image distance** 1/f = 1/d_o + 1/d_i 1/d_i = 1/f − 1/d_o = 1/10 − 1/15 Common denominator 30: 1/d_i = 3/30 − 2/30 = 1/30 **d_i = +30 cm** (30 cm behind the lens, on the opposite side from the object) **(b) Magnification** m = −d_i/d_o = −30/15 = **−2.0** **Nature of the image** - d_i is positive → the image is **real** (light actually converges there; it can be projected onto a screen). - m is negative → the image is **inverted**. - |m| = 2 → the image is twice the size of the object (enlarged). **Summary:** A real, inverted image, magnified 2×, located 30 cm behind the lens. This is the expected result, since the object sits between f and 2f (10 cm < 15 cm < 20 cm).
▶ R51 · Heat required to warm water (specific heat capacity)author reference Open round →
**Gegeben:** - m = 2 kg - c = 4186 J/(kg·K) - ΔT = 80 °C − 20 °C = 60 K **Rechnung:** Q = m · c · ΔT Q = 2 kg · 4186 J/(kg·K) · 60 K Q = 2 · 4186 · 60 J Q = 8372 · 60 J Q = 502 320 J **Ergebnis:** - Q = 502 320 J - Q = 502,32 kJ
▶ R52 · Fermi estimate: how many piano tuners in a 10-million-person city?author reference Open round →
**Fermi-Schätzung: Klavierstimmer in einer Stadt mit 10 Millionen Einwohnern** **Schritt 1 – Haushalte** Bei durchschnittlich ca. 2,5 Personen pro Haushalt: 10.000.000 / 2,5 = **4.000.000 Haushalte** **Schritt 2 – Anteil Haushalte mit Klavier** Ein Klavier ist teuer und platzintensiv; in einer Großstadt schätze ich etwa 1 von 50 Haushalten, also 2 %: 4.000.000 × 0,02 = **80.000 Klaviere in Privathaushalten** **Schritt 3 – Institutionelle Klaviere** Schulen, Musikschulen, Kirchen, Konzertsäle, Hotels, Studios: grob 20 % Aufschlag auf den privaten Bestand: 80.000 × 1,2 ≈ **100.000 Klaviere insgesamt** **Schritt 4 – Stimmhäufigkeit** Empfohlen wird 1–2× pro Jahr, real werden viele Instrumente vernachlässigt (Deko-Klaviere), während Institutionen häufiger stimmen lassen. Im Mittel: **0,7 Stimmungen pro Klavier und Jahr** 100.000 × 0,7 = **70.000 Stimmungen pro Jahr** **Schritt 5 – Kapaz …
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▶ R53 · Why is the sky blue? (conceptual)author reference Open round →
Sunlight looks white, but it's really a mix of all the colors of the rainbow mixed together. When that light enters our atmosphere, it bumps into the countless tiny gas molecules floating in the air — mostly nitrogen and oxygen. These molecules are much better at deflecting some colors than others. Blue light travels in short, tight waves, and short waves get knocked off course far more easily than the long, lazy waves of red and orange light. So the blue portion of sunlight gets bounced around in all directions, ricocheting from molecule to molecule until it comes down to your eyes from every part of the sky at once. The reds and yellows mostly sail straight through. The result: whichever direction you look, you're seeing scattered blue light — so the whole sky glows blue. The physical phenomenon responsible is called **Rayleigh scattering**. (This also explains sunsets: when the su …
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▶ R54 · Time dilation: why do moving clocks run slow? (conceptual, special relativity)author reference Open round →
Start with what a clock actually is. Any clock — a pendulum, a quartz crystal, a decaying particle — is just some physical process that repeats. Relativity's core claim is that all such processes are governed by the same underlying physics, and that physics has one fixed speed built into it: the speed of light, which every observer measures as the same value regardless of how they are moving. That single fact is what forces time itself to behave strangely, because "how fast a clock ticks" turns out to depend on how the observer and the clock are moving relative to each other. The cleanest way to see why is to imagine the simplest possible clock: a pulse of light bouncing between two mirrors, one tick per round trip. If that clock sits still next to you, the light just goes straight up and straight down. Now let the clock glide past you at high speed. From your point of view the mirrors …
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▶ R55 · The double-slit experiment and wave-particle duality (conceptual, quantum mechanics)author reference Open round →
The double-slit experiment starts simply. You have a barrier with two narrow parallel openings, and behind it a screen that records where each arriving particle lands. You send particles at the barrier — electrons, photons, even whole molecules — and watch where they pile up. **What you expect if particles are little balls:** two bright stripes on the screen, one behind each slit. Like spraying paint through two gaps in a stencil. **What you actually see:** an interference pattern — many alternating bright and dark bands, the signature of waves. Where two wave crests meet, they reinforce; where a crest meets a trough, they cancel. That is exactly what water waves do passing through two gaps in a seawall. The genuinely strange part is that this happens even when you send the particles *one at a time*, with long gaps between them, so no particle can be interfering with any other. Each i …
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25 of these entries are author references from blind rounds — this model answered the same prompt outside the blind field, so they are not counted in the statistics above.