[Bengalilol]

Globally, karma comes from submissions and writing comments.

4 minutes later ...

    1. dragonwriter 4 785 959 words
    2. tptacek      4 310 896 words
    3. jacquesm     3 841 209 words

I don't know why you got ingve, their global rank is now 79469 / 774235

[mysterypie]

I was looking at rank by karma (not rank by word count):

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

[Bengalilol]

Sorry for my confusion.

On average (as of last 6 months, didn't check further), he has roundly been submitting 100 links per month.