Sorry I have not posted for so long... I've been too busy practicing for the AMC's. I am going to start a "Cipher Contest" as you may have seen from the title of this blog post. It is a competition to find out who can create the best cipher. Everyone who wants to participate should pm (private message) me their cipher explaining it in great detail. I will grade the ciphers based on

1. Creativity - I want to see a new, original idea.
2. Usability - Does your cipher take 7 hours to encrypt the message "DOG" by hand?
3. Computer Programibility - How easy is it to turn this encryption scheme into a computer program.
4. Kerckhoffs' principality - How well does it follow Kerckhoff's principle?
5. Data transferability - Can you easily include numbers in the plaintext, what about punctuation?

Here are some ideas if you are stuck:
-A deck of cards has 52 cards which is 26*2.
-Excluding J, all the letters of the alphabet can fit in a 5 by 5 grid.
-Including the digits 0-9, all the letters of the alphabet can fit into a 6 by 6 grid.
-Including the space character, all the letters of the alphabet can fit in a 3 by 3 by 3 grid/box thingy.
-Using, the ASCII table all letters, (and other symbols) can be converted into a string 0's and 1's.

I need all cipher schemes in by February 29th.

@dragon96, do you want me to include your periodic table of the elements cipher?

Note, one person CAN submit more than one cipher, and multiple people can collaborate on the same cipher.