Most "normal" people wouldn't cheat, but there are always people that seem to find some self-worth or something that makes them cheat. Even if there is no prize. They are at the TOP.

In most cases I don't think there are necessarily cheaters at the top of the challenges. I think there are a lot of cases of people who actually know the language to a high degree already, who are new to LingQ, and therefore end up racking up a lot of points from marking words known.

There is also one particular character almost always at the top of the Spanish challenges (fortunately not the latest). He/she would have a million words read overnight. He/she is not manually entering them, but it's physically impossible the numbers they were doing.

BTW...the listening points don't amount to all that much compared to reading and lingqing. I used to worry about it since I also do much of my listening outside the app, but the few times I would listen to something in the app produced so little points that I don't worry about it much anymore. But I certainly understand wanting them to count!

Easy .. just use audacity and redirect output to input