The Kill Everyone Project

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Screenshot of TKEP applet and chat

The Kill Everyone Project (or TKEP) is a Flash applet hosted at The Sect of Homokaasu. The goal of this project is to virtually "kill" the entire population of the Earth by clicking on a button that simply says, "Click here!"

1 How it works
2 Statistics
3 Cheating prevention
4 References
5 External links

[edit] How it works

The Kill Everyone Project works by eliminating the population of successively larger countries (by population), one person at a time, as each click on the "Click here!" button equates to one kill. To roughly compensate for the worldwide population growth rate, a steady increase of three people per second is spread evenly among all remaining countries. As of October 23, 2006, China is the sole remaining country, as it is the largest, with 323 million people remaining.

The applet is also equipped with a chat program that rewards special abilities or bonuses to participants with a minimum number of kills (for example, participants with over 500,000 kills can place a n00b sticker across the name of others within the chat program). The applet also keeps track of overall kills, kills per minute (both in text and in a graph that plots over time), ranking and how many kills needed to pass the next-highest participant.

[edit] Statistics

As of September 27, 2006, 21:00 UTC, the total number of kills amounted to 6,116,793 044, and the project been running for 1968 days. There are 75,007 registered participants, averaging 81,549 kills each. As of November 15, 2006, the estimated date of the world population coming to an end is March 18, 2007^[1].

[edit] Cheating prevention

The applet employs a number of countermeasures to prevent cheating. The button that is clicked on to kill people moves side-to-side slowly to prevent scripts that click the mouse without human intervention. If a participant clicks outside of the button or goes over a speed threshold, the button is disabled for about 10 seconds, and appears grey. The "Click here!" button also uses different shades of red each time the applet is loaded, preventing the operation of certain auto-clicking mouse tools. The generally-accepted safe maximum speed is 900 kills per minute (KPM) averaged over the entire session of gameplay and 1500 KPM averaged over the last minute of gameplay, thus allowing for short bursts of speed without penalty.

Other countermeasures include security checks (also called a Reverse Turing test in the game), which are pop-up captchas designed to catch inattentive or absent participants who use scripts or other automated means to cheat. Security checks are initiated manually by an administrator monitoring suspicious activity, or automatically by the game itself on a pseudo-random basis. The participant is then required to input a random string of 8 numbers and letters within two minutes to continue, and failure to do so will cause the participant's account to be disabled.

Accounts disabled by any means have all kills revoked and returned to the population for others to kill.