I'm fascinated by this as well. :)
so unusual I took a snapshot of it before it disappeared
I'm kind of embarrassed i missed this the first time around. I originally understood the similarity (before the update) where the XP was the same. Being just 100 off, i simply didn't see it. I reread your post for some odd reason, and saw it was originally just Writeups.
Anyway, just having adjacent monks with the same amount of Writeups is not unusual at all. There are current 34 sets:
RANKING NAME WRITEUPS TITLE XP
---------- -------------------- ---------- --------------- ----------
185 dave_the_m 8962 Parson (16) 847
186 jepri 8962 Parson (16) 775
201 andreychek 8236 Parson (16) 147
202 bibliophile 8236 Parson (16) 140
223 gube 7614 Parson (16) 227
224 pbeckingham 7614 Parson (16) 379
227 Spooty 7532 Parson (16) 0
228 Courage 7532 Parson (16) 569
273 toma 6574 Vicar (15) 416
274 chuckbutler 6574 Vicar (15) 37
335 webfiend 5456 Vicar (15) 281
336 George_Sherston 5456 Vicar (15) 503
343 PetaMem 5349 Priest (14) 289
344 BazB 5349 Priest (14) 240
368 parv 4988 Priest (14) 688
369 rovf 4988 Priest (14) 927
371 chanio 4981 Priest (14) 360
372 mdillon 4981 Priest (14) 338
393 wind 4793 Priest (14) 620
394 djantzen 4793 Priest (14) 353
429 eXile 4502 Priest (14) 226
430 leocharre 4502 Priest (14) 675
465 fenLisesi 4111 Priest (14) 207
466 thunders 4111 Priest (14) 271
469 McA 4071 Priest (14) 626
470 blahblahblah 4071 Priest (14) 169
482 Thelonius 4003 Priest (14) 468
483 AdamQuark 4003 Priest (14) 4
488 Siddartha 3965 Curate (13) 33
489 valavanp 3965 Curate (13) 68
490 Tanalis 3953 Curate (13) 254
491 MZSanford 3953 Curate (13) 386
507 BigJoe 3821 Curate (13) 305
508 tjh 3821 Curate (13) 156
517 ariels 3774 Curate (13) 238
518 athomason 3774 Curate (13) 187
562 inman 3546 Curate (13) 473
563 JayBonci 3546 Curate (13) 140
568 mandog 3522 Curate (13) 167
569 logan 3522 Curate (13) 169
579 monsieur_champs 3470 Curate (13) 187
580 waswas-fng 3470 Curate (13) 725
588 pajout 3425 Curate (13) 351
589 sk 3425 Curate (13) 231
594 dbwiz 3400 Curate (13) 133
595 clemburg 3400 Curate (13) 352
625 hok_si_la 3224 Curate (13) 76
626 olus 3224 Curate (13) 311
630 wog 3214 Curate (13) 251
631 ruzam 3214 Curate (13) 311
633 Ponky 3209 Curate (13) 6
634 cees 3209 Curate (13) 309
641 Seumas 3194 Curate (13) 80
642 jaredor 3194 Curate (13) 42
645 tunaboy 3183 Curate (13) 29
646 krujos 3183 Curate (13) 126
650 jsprat 3165 Curate (13) 261
651 Hero Zzyzzx 3165 Curate (13) 300
665 csuhockey3 3086 Curate (13) 122
666 giulienk 3086 Curate (13) 122
671 seeker 3067 Curate (13) 27
672 juo 3067 Curate (13) 89
674 phaylon 3061 Curate (13) 255
675 saberworks 3061 Curate (13) 235
679 hipowls 3034 Curate (13) 227
680 lidden 3034 Curate (13) 206
680 lidden 3034 Curate (13) 206
681 jjdeterick 3034 Curate (13) 11
Update: So stupid. I made the same mistake
again. That is, mixing up XP and Writeups. And i thought i fixed that. Anyway, the list above is similar XP, not Writeups. There's only one set of adjacent monks with similar Writeups.
To find one's that are really close, use the following query off the CTE:
SELECT
A.Ranking,
A.Name,
A.XP,
A.Title,
A.Writeups
FROM
Data A,
Data B
WHERE
B.Ranking IN(A.Ranking + 1, A.Ranking - 1)
AND B.Writeups BETWEEN A.Writeups - 5 AND A.Writeups + 5
ORDER BY
Ranking;
RANKING NAME XP TITLE WRITEUPS
---------- -------------------- ---------- --------------- ----------
37 eyepopslikeamosquito 30048 Chancellor (21) 1295
38 planetscape 29969 Canon (20) 1290
75 wfsp 19168 Abbot (19) 904
76 brian_d_foy 19011 Abbot (19) 905
412 ChemBoy 4651 Priest (14) 282
413 danger 4645 Priest (14) 280
426 fisher 4535 Priest (14) 152
427 Theo 4529 Priest (14) 154
510 OeufMayo 3800 Curate (13) 146
511 lin0 3799 Curate (13) 149
568 mandog 3522 Curate (13) 167
569 logan 3522 Curate (13) 169
665 csuhockey3 3086 Curate (13) 122
666 giulienk 3086 Curate (13) 122