1. Megacoin A
This coin is not drawing much attention, but boy is it a doozy. ultra highspeed transactions, and has the built in ability to confirm transactions on your machine if nodes are unavailable to confirm. This feature kind of scared me at first when i discovered it, i thought the program had highjacked my machine. It turns out that the developer of this coin built this function in to prevent slow confirmation times in event of an attack on the network. Very clever. This coin would get an A+ if the Dev team and creator were online more often to provide support for the coin.
2. Litecoin A-
Still the standard of Alt coins, over the last few months this coin has gradually begun to die. All of its faucets are drying up, and users are lining up left and right to dump their coins. It appears that Litecoin has run its course and may soon come to the end, but for the sake of the coin i couldn't drop it from the top five just yet. There is plenty of time for improvements to the client and a ressurection of its lifecycle.
3. Digital Coin A-
With a steady increase in value on cryptsy, Digital Coin has proven to be a mainstay in the Alt Currency world. Its fast confirmation times, dedicated Dev team and Transparent Source Code make it a big win in the Alt Coin community. I look for Digital Coin to have a long and prosperous life, however its scant availability to non mining users hurts it a little bit, and so far the Devs have been unwilling to provide bounties for a faucet. Despite this, Digital Coin prospers on, with new fans converting every day and joining the vast community backing of DGC.
4. Name Coin B+
A very secure coin, not much can be said about it other than its average confirmation times. One thing that helps this coin is its ability to store value, where it is the second most profitable Alt behind Litecoin.
5. GLD Coin B-
This coin started out as a very promising coin, but went the way of Game Coin after constant attacks on the network and an early attempt to dump. After being demoted to a secondary market on cryptsy, GLD coin started to regain traction(and value), but a fork was unavoidable. For now the coin is losing and slowly dropping from the scene in the Alt World. GLD coin faithful shouldn't panic yet because after block 21000 difficulty will retarget and confirmation times should return to realistic values. As it stands now, expect atleast 6 hour confirmation times until the retarget. Still, despite all of its early pitfalls and shortcomings by the development team, it is the most traded coin on cryptsy.
Next 5: Franko, World Coin, Novacoin, Yacoin, Bitbar
LOL IM actually laughing. I will bump this in a few months for another laugh