Nevertheless, you beat my argument that there's probably not even one member who's close to the speed at which members used to obtain ranks before.
I went from brand new to Junior member in 14 days, and I have enough merits to make it to member level at the same rate as the pre-merit rank updates.
90% of your merit has come from posting about merit....congrats, you have figured out how to rape the system....if I were you I would open up a dozen new accounts...keep posting about merit...and sell them in a few months...I can see the day when we go from bitcointalk.org to bitcointalkerstalkingaboutthemeritsystem.org