This script that will generate a list of monks who have more XP than everyone who signed up after them. For instance George_Sherston makes the list because no one whose homenodeid is higher than 103111 has more than 1282 XP. In otherwords, he's managed to stay ahead of all the newer monks.

Although this is quite silly it does show the power of HTML::TableExtract.

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::TableExtract;

my $maxmonks     = 2000;
my $monksperpage = 50;
my $tinymicros   = 'http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=MonkStats&
+start=';

my $te = new HTML::TableExtract( headers =>
                                     ['Rank','Node ID','Name','Experie
+nce'],
                               );

my $offset = 0;
while ($offset < $maxmonks) {
  my $html = get("$tinymicros$offset");
  $te->parse($html);
  $offset+=$monksperpage;
}

print "NodeID  Name           Experience\n";
my $maxid = 0;
for my $ts ($te->table_states) {
  for my $row ($ts->rows) {
    my ($rank,$nodeid,$name,$xp) = @$row;
    if ($nodeid > $maxid) {
      printf("%6d  %-14s %7d\n",$nodeid,$name,$xp);
      $maxid = $nodeid;
   }
  }
}
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Here is the current list:

NodeID	Name	Experience
979	vroom	1003990
26179	tilly	19313
33117	footpad	9673
53423	Masem	7054
80749	tachyon	5423
83485	blakem	3784
85580	dragonchild	3694
90987	MZSanford	1386
103111	George_Sherston	1282
104919	perrin	1038
108447	demerphq	833
116014	pjf	458
117078	Incognito	33
117190	Elliott	29
117408	monk_e_magic	29
117731	guidomortonski	16

-Blake