Aid to Evaluating Your Accomplishments

Compare yourself to these four ordinary people who were selected at random:

English Youth John Stuart Mill Was able to read Greek and Latin at age 3. (more)	Madras Clerk Srinivasa Ramanujan After failing his school examinations, Ramanujan obtained a position as a clerk in the city of Madras. Before his death at age 32, made fundamental advances in mathematics including Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series and functional equations of the zeta function. (more)
Hartford Connecticut Insurance Executive Wallace Stevens Won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954; best known for "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". (more)	Political activist Evariste Galois Made enormous contributions to group theory, polynomial equations, and number theory prior to his death at age 20. (more)

Programmed by Eve Astrid Andersson and Philip Greenspun back in the mid-1990s. If you're a nerd, you might find the source code useful.

Original Inspiration: How to Make Yourself Miserable, by Dan Greenburg