I'll take two plz

ffffffff march maddness. NIT BABY. DUcks vs. huskies for all the marbles (kinda).


scooooooooooooo ducks

Confirmed. You won St. Patrick Day, .

What thing are you best at (in terms of being top x% of global population) and how many people do you think do that thing as good/better than you in the world?

Wow interesting question. Nothing in the top 10% probably. I'd guess I'm likely in the top quartile in maff.

My score in Temple Run is top 5% in the world

If you are a PhD student, and aren't in the top .001% of world in knowledge in the field you are studying, you have done something seriously wrong. So yea, I guess top 25% in math sounds right for you

I mean, if you win at poker, even microstakes, that puts you in the top 70,000 poker players in the world which is .001%

I like the question, how many things do you have to add to a selection pool before you are favorite over anyone in the world given that you get to choose the game after someone challenges you?

We're all in the top .00000001% of knowing how hairy sippin_cris' butt is. Let's see what good that does us.

gonna do you all a favour and not post a pic. i think i'm in the top 1% at knowing when the microwave is about to end.

My friend growing up used to brag that he was probably one of the top 10 ping players in the state of MO. Then we went to a tourney at our HS and there were like 30 kids better than him.

im not sure the name of it, but we always called it the dot game, where you draw dots and then take turns drawing lines, then filling in the boxes.



anyway, ive never lost playing it.

playing an unhealthy amount of poker on pokerstars. I was in the 99.9999987th percentile on that one. (or so)

Was recently in top 1% of lumosity.
Guess that is the same category more or less as high IQ test score, done a few of those in the past.

Used to be top 10 in the online ranking of topspin on xbox. Lol

I should be somewhere is the best 3-5% when it comes to tennis I guess.
Was in a similar spot with soccer before I quit.

Recent job evaluation puts me calibrated in the top 15% of purchasing professionals in our company, so globally that should do a lot better as well. Highly subjective though.

Not sure what % you fall into pokerwise when you beat 100nl.

old bungie rts game for mac/pc

probably 20 or so people in the world that are better than me right now out of the 60 that still play it "regularly"

Well, we're all top 10% in poker obv. We're also top 10% in a bunch of other things I'm sure that we don't realize.

The ppl ITT are likely:
Top 10% typing
Top 10% math and probably anything requiring formal education
Top 10% some random video game

Everyone in the H&F forum for example is top 10% in strength I'd guess.

Maybe top 1% or .1% is more interesting. Because then you're approach a potentially elite level of something. For instance, being top 10% of active chess players or tennis players or whatever.

Yugo is in the top 10% of knowing things were in the top 10% of

I could be wrong but I believe your actual %age will be lower than you expect. Like if you are middle class in a western country I believe you are around the top 5% richest people in the world.

What Happens When A 35-Year-Old Man Retakes The SAT?

damn im rich as **** then

(this is probably where xPeru lives)

My friend wants me to meet up with her in Peru this summer. I'll be lucky to get a week off, but that pic is really making me think about it.

Was just independently linked to a paper related to SIQs question and the resulting responses. Basically says people are bad at judging their place in the distribution of some skill or talent. They tend to shift the true distribution in a way that pulls themselves either closer to the center or tail of their subjective distribution.

Easy explanation is we don't interact with the full range of people in the world.

HE MAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

It's a college readiness exam. The ACT and SAT do a fairly good job of assessing someones readiness to handle college coursework. Yes, it's for "preppy dip****s," but the preppy comes from college preparatory. Of course kids who are preparing to go to college after high school are better prepared for a test of college readiness than graduate and get a job types. His essay was rambling garbage which should probably have been closer to a 3 than a 4 out of 6. The SAT/ACT are remarkably easy tests if you take them after going to college. This is demonstrated by the author of that article getting a 2140, a decent score, a score good enough to get you into Washington U in St. Louis, about half of the Ivy's, Duke, and a host of other good schools most of the time without doing any review at all before taking it.

If you went and took it again, you'd be surprised how easy it is. If you spend 10 hours of prep with a tutor ahead of time, almost every college educated adult should be able to get a perfect score, and would get about 90% of the questions correct with 15 minutes of quick WTF is going to be on this test type of review. FWIW, the average ACT test prep program is about 50 hours of instruction and will raise a students score about 6 points out of the ACT's 36. A 24/36 gets you into most state schools, a 30 into most private upper-tier schools, and 33+ for the very Stanford/Harvard very top tier.


TL;DR I am an ACT/SAT tutor and probably in the top however small percent of the world in knowing stuff about the ACT.


That picture of Peru is pretty awesome.

I wonder how it would feel to actually be one of the top handful of people in the world at something, or even more how it would feel to be regarded as the best ever.

like how it must feel for Jordan, or Reyes.

I'm pretty good at pool and poker. There are probably tens to hundreds of thousands of people who play just as good or better pool than me. In poker I imagine there are enough people as good/better than me to fill a small stadium (I guess if you narrowed it down to just STTs it'd be a smaller group)...

If you held a STT / Billiards challenge I'd probably crush tho

It's too subjective imo.

I'm clearly the best dad in the world (or so I've been told) and have the coffee cup to prove it!