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Thanks 4chan. It was a lot of fun watching that thread honestly. The collaborative effort was great.

The anon of the hour: http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9202862#p9203437

4chan flew through the last several. Amazing work.

I actually want to see a timeline of how long it took for each question. The 4chan posts all have timestamps for when the answers were posted so this shouldn't be too hard to do.

There are archives of the older threads as well.

The last few were pretty easy. We were on beat for the cyphers used, and the last one just happened to be picked up by a music nerd.

I watched it live during the last ten or so. Each question was solved within about fifteen minutes. I tried to contribute to the process, but every time I found a clue, someone beat me to posting about it by a minute or so. The power of collective intelligence is amazing.

Based off when the solutions (or "gotcha" hints) were posted:

Q23: 19:28:28

Q24: 19:38:38

Q25: 19:54:52

Q26: 20:02:44

Q27: 20:05:08

Q28: 20:24:09

Q29: 20:27:42

Q30: 21:22:56

Q31: 22:37:51

Q32: 22:53:41

(thread languishes until 2-3 am, few posts are made, a new thread arrives)

Q33: 05:05:16

Q34: 05:23:58

Q35: 05:38:09

Q36: 05:54:55

Q37: 06:17:25

Q38: 06:21:57

Q39: 06:47:14

Q40: 06:53:04