Okay, so I am testing vanitymining..

I use a Sapphire 7950 OC at 1200 Mhz

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen:

It does:
..which seems about right, according to bitcoinwiki.
"Lavishness: 1.3e-05"

It mines away with 660Mh/s, http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator says 0.1 BTC per day.

https://vanitypool.appspot.com/availableWork says "Mining ratio - 2.32"

To me, vanity mining seems a magnitute less lucrative than blockmining. I can't see an obvious discrepancy on my side. So, where does the "2.32 times more lucrative than mining" come from?

Thank you,

Ente

Lets see, from the FAQ (https://vanitypool.appspot.com/faq):

L = 2^32 * (b/c)
MR = L * (d/r) * (k/m) = 2^32 * (b/c) * (d/r) * (k/m)

k/m was taken as 0.06 from the hardware page (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanity_mining_hardware_comparison). Difficulty is currently about 3300000, reward is 25. Total lavishness is 0.00029 . We can calculate that:

MR = 0.00029 * 3300000 25 * 0.06 = 2.2968

With your setup the k/m is 25.29 Mkey/s 660Mh/s ~~ 0.038 . This gives a mining ratio of 1.45 . A bit less, but still more profitable than block mining. On the flip side, there is a higher variance mining for keys, as the website does not work like a pool with shares.

For practical mining values I find http://fizzisist.com/mining-value/ to be more useful.  At this point it isn't worth pushing any mining power at the vanity pool.  I have miners checking for work but not actually doing any hashing unless it is worth more than other mining and I would guess there is a decent number of others doing the same given how quickly work gets solved when it is worth working on.  Right now even if the pool started accepting compressed solutions it would just barely have an income equivalent to bitcoin mining, without higher valued names requested you're better off elsewhere.

I see great minds think alike.  Using similar calculations I determined that it currently isn't worth mining vanity addresses based on the current bounties and difficulties.  Straight BTC mining is still more profitable.

For instance, 1JohnGALT with its 0.38 BTC bounty only earns about 1/2 what I can make mining BTC directly.
To be competitive, 1JohnGALT would have to offer 0.8 BTC to get anyone's attention.

Forgive my blindness, but I'd like a slim costpm custom address.

How do i get my primate key?

That is correct.

Keep it safe, get it from a web app 

Great Idea!

I'll be joining then :3

Something odd is going on.

The reward for the 1Piachu and 1ThePiachu patterns make it worthwhile to mine them, (in fact 1Piachu alone is the profitable one).

I've seen my miners submit several solutions to the 1Piachu pattern that seemed accepted (the miners then switched to the next most profitable pattern) but the 1Piachu pattern keeps coming back and I've not received any reward.