How long does it take you hackers to make a hack.... just give an estimate depeneding on what kind of hack.

as you said it all depends on what type of hack, If i have free time I can produce a hack in a couple of hours, yet if its a simple hack it can take 10minutes or less.

The Admins reading user's pm hack took me about 2 hours to do.

I spent a couple hours on vBGlossary. It obviously depends on the hack. I'd say that touching the hack up, and writing instructions, and simply making it easily usable for everyone else takes half the time for me, though. Getting the bare-bones functionality is only half the battle, usually.

how long took you guys for the battle hack? and learning php/mysql?

longest part is always making templates for my hack, i really hate it ^^

most of the hacks i write in short time, make installfile takes more time, but bugfixing and betatesting needs some time also....