http://coinmarketcap.com Hobo Nickel, Moon Coin, Sex Coin, Penguin Coin, and my personal favorite...Junk Coin. LMAO.
Must be like in the "dot.com" days. A few people get in very early and make a bundle while almost everybody else gets bupkis.
I agree...all shit coins (as everyone knows that, who did his homework). Just stay with the leaders: Bitcoin (from the SHA-256 family) and if you are an amateur Miner: Litecoin (from the Script-family). Those have 99,5% of the market and are the only ones you can use buying things on the internet and street.
You should do some homework: Ripple isn't a decentralized crypto-currency: it's a transport-network (a Ripple is like stamp on an envelop, which is destroyed after posting). It should not be in that list (and it's printed value is fictive: as all coins are Pre-mined).
don't waste your time on turd unless you can show reason to do otherwise. this board is full of excessive hyperbole("more worthwhile"). my suggestion is something more exotic which is as "in the long run is as good as gold" http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1021-seaweed.html