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Charles Simonyi, an Uncommon card
Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American software architect, businessman, and space tourist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 134
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 98,000
Power 134 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He led the development of Microsoft's first application software, including early versions of Microsoft Office, and later co-founded Intentional Software, a company focused on his concept of intentional programming.
- A former researcher at Xerox PARC, he helped pioneer graphical user interfaces and introduced object-oriented programming and Hungarian notation to Microsoft.
- Simonyi flew to space twice as a private citizen, becoming the fifth space tourist and the only one to pay for two separate trips to the International Space Station.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Charles Simonyi article was read about 98,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Charles Simonyi
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Charles Simonyi (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

