Hi everyone~!

I've been reading though these forums for a while now, and decided it's time I take part too
My name is Jacob, and I am 17 years old.

Like many people, I found out about this game after watching Hikaru no Go.
I started playing around ~5 months ago (late September), and have gotten to KGS 4 kyu since.

I believe that one should be optimistic and set their sight on a ridiculous goal to succeed,
even though it might not be possible - and that's why my ultimate goal is to get to 9 Dan!
(... probably sometime in the far.. far.. far.. future...)
In the meantime though, I'll be focusing on a much smaller and a slightly more realistic goal, which is to become 1 Dan, hopefully in the next 2-3 months.

Well, that's pretty much it about myself.
Looking forward to spending my time here with everyone

Thank you!
Biz

Good to see you're enjoying the ride so far.

Just take it one rank at a time and keep going.

4k in half a year is pretty good, though. Keep on enjoying yourself, and who knows how far you'll come.

4k in 5 months? Bill will be happy.

How many hours a day do you think you put in?

I play around 4-5 games on average every day.
That combined with an occassional half an hour or so to study Go from the web or books, sums up to around 2-2.5 hours a day.
Though there are days when I am super motivated, and play over 10 games in one day, and can end up spending more than 5-6 hours.

And yes tenato, that is the plan!