I am gathering data about Steem Power (SP) and  will generate visually in graphical format.

It is good to have a visual view to how much percentage of people who have earned average to high steem power. Sometimes , this has been an impact to the community. There are many people quit because they are having a hard time increasing their Steem Power.

There might be a slight chance to be successful in Steemit, you should work hard and ignore those trials and negatives along the way, you will soon find what success is really is.

Sometimes patience and hard work should mix if you are in this platform.If you have those two aspect , then success will just come on your way.

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## A. Scope of Data Gathered
Data extracted December 12 9:42 AM AM UTC Time
Extracted from steemsql by @arcange
Check Steem Power and Vesting Related 

## B. Steem Power (SP) - Own Steem Power
Steem Power is one of the important thing you should build up so can increase your upvote power.  I will categorized how many have earned such powers according to their ranges.

As we see in the figures below, we can see that there are only 6,179 members that have Steem Power(SP) with ranges 501 to 10,000. And for 10,001 Steem Power to 100,000 Steember not even a half. It has been very hard to acquire such huge amount of Steem Power. There might still a chance if you work hard of it and also invest more if you had, but the chances are very slight.

Steem Power Range | Total Members Acquired SP
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1 SP to 500 SP | 176,329 members
501 SP to 10,000 SP | 6,179 members
10,001 SP to 100,000 SP | 785 members
100,001 SP to 500,000 SP | 107 members
500,001 SP to 1,000,000 SP | 20 members
1,000,001 SP to 10,000,000 |  16 members

**View Pie Graph**

It really takes time to surpass 500 Steem Power , but since Steem Dollars have increased , you have now the opportunity to faster reach 500 Steem Power in no time. You just take effort of what you do and make some quality articles.

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**Top 16 members that acquired 1,000,001 SP to 10,000,000**
*(Note : Sorted them according to their Steem Power: Own Steem Power)*

On the ranking page freedom has the most owned Steem Power of all top Steem Power owners.

Rank | Member
-|-
1st | freedom
2nd | misterdelegation
3rd | steem
4th | blocktrades
5th | ned
6th | val-a
7th | mottler
8th | databass
9th | hendrikdegrote
10th | jamesc
11th | michael-b
12th | val-b
13th | proskynneo
14th | minority-report
15th | ranchorelaxo
16th | thejohalfiles

## C. Steem Power (SP) - Received SP

As we can see in the graph there are around 8 people that have received 500,001 SP to 1,000,000 SP and only 6 members that have received over 1 million Steem Power.

It is really great to received such amount of Steem Power. You can help people with it and at the same time help minnows and low members to grow until they reach the rank of Dolphins.

Steem Power Range | Total Members Received Steem Power
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1 SP to 500 SP | 321,480 members
501 SP to 10,000 SP | 780 members
10,001 SP to 100,000 SP | 198 members
100,001 SP to 500,000 SP | 31 members
500,001 SP to 1,000,000 SP | 8 members
1,000,001 SP to 10,000,000 |  6 members

**View Pie Graph**

As we see in the graph almost all the people have received 1 to 500 SP only with having the total pie share of 99.68%. And to those who has more have a very little percentage.

This means that Steem Power is really a hard earned thing , that you cannot just give away to someone.

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**Top 6 members that acquired 1,000,001 SP to 10,000,000**
*(Note : Sorted them according to their Steem Power: Received Steem Power)*

Rank | Member
-|-
1st | Utopian-io
2nd | buildawhale
3rd | appreciator
4th | upme
5th | steemcleaners
6th | dtube

## D. Steem Power (SP) - Delegated SP

As we can see in delegated Steem Power there are very few member that have received even 1 Steem Power to 500 Steem Power with only having 2,014 members. And for 501 Steem Power to 10,000 Steem Power it has reached only with 465 members.

In my point of view, the above figures shows that hard to delegate steem power if you have also have low steem power. Steem Power is really hard to earned when you are just starting up as a newbie to steemit. Many of those newbie didn't know about Steem Power but all they do is just do the upvote thing and that they could earn rewards from doing so.

As soon as they gain experience and know about Steem Power , the next problem is that they don't know how to delegate their steem power to help their real life friend who are just starting. It has been too technical for those who are not exposed on simple website codes. But if only there would be a guide that could teach them , surely we could see big figures delegating. 

Steem Power Range | Total Members Delegate Steem Power
-|-
1 SP to 500 SP | 2,014 members
501 SP to 10,000 SP | 465 members
10,001 SP to 100,000 SP | 125 members
100,001 SP to 500,000 SP | 35 members
500,001 SP to 1,000,000 SP | 7 members
1,000,001 SP to 10,000,000 |  6 members

**View in Pie Graph**

As we can see in the graph there are about 17.53% for 501 SP to 10,000 SP delegation which has been second biggest part of the pie. And only 0.23% for those who have delegated more than 1 million steem power.

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**Top 6 members that acquired 1,000,001 SP to 10,000,000**
*(Note : Sorted them according to their Steem Power: Delegate  Steem Power)*

On the top rankers still freedom has dominated the most top delegator of steem power. As I have seen in freedom's history , there are many people asking to be delegating and they promise to pay in return the total steem power equivalent in steem.

I think it would be easy to have transaction with freedom if there is a website in which they can request for particular amount and then it will auto compute to how much they would pay per day for it. And at the same time it would be easy tracking for both freedom and the users that have been delegated, so there will be easy way to track both payments and the number of days steem power has been delegated.

Rank | Top Delegators
-|-
1st | freedom
2nd | steem
3rd | blocktrades
4th | misterdelegation
5th | ned
6th | jamesc

## Final Analysis
- It is really hard to earn Steem Power as a newbie , it will possibly take months to each 500 Steem Power or more if you don't have money to invest or at the same time you don't know how to create a good quality content
- You need to be artistic and efficient of your work if you are not an investor , so you have a chance to succeed in Steemit
- For delegations , you need to pay for big amounts to acquire them , which would be really hard for many members to obtain.

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