Beneficiary deirdyweirdy.....thank you very much Mr. Wombat.

Your guess is as good as mine. I did not even know there was an eficiency rate or something like that. I play it by ear, I guess :)
I do get mortified when I vote at 100% and far from increasing the post's value, my vote brings it down a little, sometimes a lot. I wish it were simpler.

Greater than 100% efficiency only means you get curation reward more valuable than the value of your vote. The comparisons are made against your vote value. 

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If your vote was worth 2 Steem, with 50% curation you would get 1 Steem (ignore other voters etc). that is 50% (I think is how SW considers it). 

However, if you get all those stacked votes on top, you will get the multiplier effect and you might get 100% curation, which would equal your 2 STEEM vote. 

At 114%, you would get 2.28 STEEM in curation. The highest percentages I have seen are in the 400s, but they are rare and will be very small vote values.

With a smaller vote early, it is easier to get higher percentages, which is why there are those voters automating hundreds of votes a day. For me, I just vote as I vote. My average on Steemworld is around the 50%, with some being well above that, many being a bit below.