We share our best solutions with each other, of course! If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. -- Isaac Newton [July 25 2008: AHAP is closed to new membership for the foreseeable future. We are a very strong group, but we love competition, so if you've got great folding skills we urge you join one of the other groups or start a new one. Competition drives us all to do better :)] Our main rule, and the reason we are so successful in winning puzzles, is that we share all our solutions. It's been a long time since any of our members have NOT uploaded their best solutions for the rest of the group to build on, though we do have an informal rule that says if we're winning and you add at least 5 to our lead, you can upload something 2-3 points lower than that score, which will challenge the other group members to catch you But we usually upload our best solutions anyway. We do this because we believe its our job to make the whole FoldIt project look good to the outside world, and this is done by reaching the highest score possible. Nobody outside the high score tables cares which particular user generated that score, so we try and make the best use of our time by not forcing others to go where we have already been. -- If you see our group in "Moderated" status, implying you can request to join then I apologize but we only use that status to allow invitees to actually join us: it's not an open invitation to request joining. We do this because the "Invite Only" group status doesn't work; I've sent several invitations while in that status and the invitees could not join, so we're forced to use "Moderated". I apologize for any confusion.