SDMB Username Search: How many characters until you're the only option in the dropdown?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Using the search function, start typing your name in the “Search by User Name” box (if you want to). Upon typing 3 characters a dropdown menu will offer results.

How many characters do you have to type before your name is the only offered result?

I type 3 characters and get suggestions of:[ul]
[li]Biebs[/li][li]Biederman[/li][li]Bieklouy[/li][li]biensaturnolo[/li][li]bienville[/li][li]Bieplus[/li][li]Biere[/li][li]Biermeister[/li][li]biernien[/li][li]Biers[/li][li]Biexoucurn[/li][/ul]11 Results

I type 4 characters and get:[ul]
[li]biensaturnolo[/li][li]bienville[/li][/ul]

It is not until I type 5 characters that I end up the only offer result.

bienville = 5

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7 characters, including the space (“noone s”)

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Four

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Seven. Crotalu. There’s a user named crotale who has never posted.

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I haven’t searched the posting history of my matches, but pretty much none of them seem familiar. Of the 11 results that come up for “bie” the only one from whom I think I’ve seen posts is Biermeister. I am completely unfamiliar with biensaturnolo, the one who bumps me up to a 5.

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Eight – up to the “c”.

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All of mine; there’s a user called wordman81

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There are two users, one named GuandautidA and another named GuanYu, that mean I need to get to 5 characters.

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At three letters, I get:
[ul][li]Maud[/li][li]Maude[/li][li]maudro[/li][li]Maui[/li][li]Maui Lion[/li][li]Maui479[/li][li]mauichef[/li][li]mauigirl[/li][li]mauigrom23[/li][li]Mauiwe[/li][li]maui_blue[/li][li]Mauky[/li][li]MaulLove[/li][li]Maura[/li][li]maura9[/ul][/li]
15 - I think that’s the maximum return.

At four letters, it drops to two names:
[ul][li]MAUS[/li][li]Maus Magill[/ul][/li]
The search function seems to ignore the space until you add one more letter. So at six (including the space), there’s just me.

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Can’t do it. Even with my whole username typed, it still offers

WhyNot
whynot77717
whynotme?

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At 3 characters, I’m the only one!

And it doesn’t seem to work with less than 3 characters (that is, if I type in “CC” I get nuthin’).

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I also have other usernames showing when I’ve typed my whole name in:

Chrisk33
Chrisk66
ChrisKaye
chriskemper
chriskidney

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4 - dcnd

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9, including space: student d

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“MSW” gives six results.

“MSWH” is just me.

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  1. Even at 5 I get 15 results.
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If I type in all 7 letters of my username I still get one other user, telemark7449, who posted once in 2010.

I *hate *him.

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I need all four.

There are still some with those four plus more:
[ul]
[li]iggy popov last posted in 2005[/li][li]iggy14 never posted[/li][li]IggyDad never posted[/li]IggyWhip never posted [/ul]

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I had to go 6 letters. Someone is Procrutes

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Three for me