3110: Global Ranking - Revision history

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 ==Transcript==
 :[Cueball is seated at a desk, and uses a laptop. White Hat is standing right behind him.]
 :Cueball: I'm ranked 7,145,000<sup><small>th</small></sup> globally on this chess platform.

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 ==Explanation==
-{{incomplete|Explain what "rating floor" means and describe the system used.}}
+[[Cueball]] comments on his ranking on a {{w|chess}} platform, such as {{w|chess.com}} or {{w|lichess}}, which both have millions of chess players. He notices that being ranked so low is quite remarkable. Indeed, most sports only rank the best, most professional participants. Especially before computerization, nobody bothered to rank more than a few hundred or thousand competitors, largely because it would have been impractical. Even in chess, up to the mid-1990s, the FIDE rating floor (the lowest possible rating in a rating system) used to be 2200, which only included some of the best players.
 As of 2025, the {{w|FIDE}} floor is 1400, which allows intermediates to be rated and ranked. However, platforms such as chess.com and lichess, which have appeared since the creation of the Internet, do not abide by the FIDE floor limitation, with chess.com placing the floor at 100 and lichess at 400, allowing even complete beginners to be rated and ranked. Ranking placements on chess.com go into the millions. Specifically, chess.com currently has about 218 million users, about 58 million of which have a [https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/rapid Rapid] rating. Being 7,145,000 would put Cueball just shy of the best 10% of players, with an Elo rating of about 900.

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 ==Explanation==
-{{incomplete|This page was created recently and is the 3110TH BEST PAGE. Explain what "rating floor" means and describe the system used. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
+{{incomplete|Explain what "rating floor" means and describe the system used.}}
 [[Cueball]] comments on his ranking on a {{w|chess}} platform, such as {{w|chess.com}} or {{w|lichess}}, which both have millions of chess players. He notices that being ranked so low is quite remarkable. Indeed, most sports only rank the best, most professional participants. Especially before computerization, nobody bothered to rank more than a few hundred or thousand competitors, largely because it would have been impractical. Even in chess, up to the mid-1990s, the FIDE rating floor used to be 2200, which only included some of the best players.

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 ==Explanation==
-{{incomplete|Explain what "rating floor" means and describe the system used.}}
+{{incomplete|This page was created recently and is the 3110TH BEST PAGE. Explain what "rating floor" means and describe the system used. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
 [[Cueball]] comments on his ranking on a {{w|chess}} platform, such as {{w|chess.com}} or {{w|lichess}}, which both have millions of chess players. He notices that being ranked so low is quite remarkable. Indeed, most sports only rank the best, most professional participants. Especially before computerization, nobody bothered to rank more than a few hundred or thousand competitors, largely because it would have been impractical. Even in chess, up to the mid-1990s, the FIDE rating floor used to be 2200, which only included some of the best players.

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 ==Explanation==
 {{incomplete|Explain what "rating floor" means and describe the system used.}}
-[[Cueball]] comments on his ranking on a {{w|chess}} platform, such as {{w|chess.com}} or {{w|lichess}}, which both have millions of chess players. He notices that being ranked so low is quite remarkable.
+[[Cueball]] comments on his ranking on a {{w|chess}} platform, such as {{w|chess.com}} or {{w|lichess}}, which both have millions of chess players. He notices that being ranked so low is quite remarkable. Indeed, most sports only rank the best, most professional participants. Especially before computerization, nobody bothered to rank more than a few hundred or thousand competitors, largely because it would have been impractical. Even in chess, up to the mid-1990s, the FIDE rating floor used to be 2200, which only included some of the best players.
 As of 2025, the {{w|FIDE}} floor is 1400, which allows intermediates to be rated and ranked. However, platforms such as chess.com and lichess, which have appeared since the creation of the Internet, do not abide by the FIDE floor limitation, with chess.com placing the floor at 100 and lichess at 400, allowing even complete beginners to be rated and ranked. Ranking placements on chess.com go into the millions. Specifically, chess.com currently has about 218 million users, about 58 million of which have a [https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/rapid Rapid] rating. Being 7,145,000 would put Cueball just shy of the best 10% of players, with an Elo rating of about 900.
-If being in the same ranking placement in different leaderboards has the same meaning to anyone, it is possible that being the lowest rated player on chess.com makes one worse than anyone in any other activity where rankings are applied.
+If being in the same ranking placement in different leaderboards has the same meaning to anyone, it is possible that being the lowest rated player on chess.com makes one worse than anyone in any other activity where rankings are applied. Cueball then explains that he enjoys playing chess for communicative reasons, to gain friends. [[White Hat]] points out the toxicity that appears to be rampant among the people he is playing with, which may be found in many hobbyist online communities, especially ones that are related to gaming. But Cueball, while aware of the issue, seems to take the abuse he is getting as an expression of a complicated kind of friendship.
 In the title text, Cueball has managed to flip his terrible ranking into a great one, by creating a combined ranking of online leaderboards, where a lower ranking elsewhere translates into a high ranking in the meta-ranking.

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 Indeed, most sports only rank the best, most professional participants. Especially before computerization, nobody bothered to rank more than a few hundred or thousand competitors, largely because it would have been impractical. Even in chess, up to the mid-1990s, the FIDE rating floor used to be 2200, which only included some of the best players.
-As of 2025, the {{w|FIDE}} floor is 1400, which allows intermediates to be rated and ranked. However, platforms such as chess.com and lichess, which have appeared since the creation of the Internet, do not abide by the FIDE floor limitation either, with chess.com placing the floor at 100 and lichess at 400, allowing even complete beginners to be rated and ranked. Ranking placements on chess.com go into the millions.
+As of 2025, the {{w|FIDE}} floor is 1400, which allows intermediates to be rated and ranked. However, platforms such as chess.com and lichess, which have appeared since the creation of the Internet, do not abide by the FIDE floor limitation either, with chess.com placing the floor at 100 and lichess at 400, allowing even complete beginners to be rated and ranked. Ranking placements on chess.com go into the millions. Specifically, chess.com currently has about 218 million users, about 58 million of which have a [https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/rapid Rapid] rating. Being 7,145,000 would put Cueball just shy of the best 10% of players, with an Elo rating of about 900.
 If being in the same ranking placement in different leaderboards has the same meaning to anyone, it is possible that being the lowest rated player on chess.com makes one worse than anyone in any other activity where rankings are applied.

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 As of 2025, the {{w|FIDE}} floor is 1400, which allows intermediates to be rated and ranked. However, platforms such as chess.com and lichess, which have appeared since the creation of the Internet, do not abide by the FIDE floor limitation either, with chess.com placing the floor at 100 and lichess at 400, allowing even complete beginners to be rated and ranked. Ranking placements on chess.com go into the millions.
 Specifically, chess.com currently has about 218 million users, about 58 million of which have a Rapid rating [https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/rapid].
-Being 7'145'000 would put Cueball just shy of best 10% of players with an Elo rating of about 900.
+Being 7,145,000 would put Cueball just shy of best 10% of players with an Elo rating of about 900.
 If being in the same ranking placement in different leaderboards has the same meaning to anyone, it is possible that being the lowest rated player on chess.com makes one worse than anyone in any other activity where rankings are applied.