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[James282]

[full ring limit hold 'em, nhl '94 for sega genesis]


-James

[TimM]

The good thing about having chess in this for me, is that it doesnt take much to go from a rank of 10,000th to 10,000,000th, especially because of all the Russian players. Is it percentile that matters, or just adding up your ranks?

[TimM]

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Are Curtains and kidman bowling retards?

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Not that I know of. Their world ranks in chess are 1285 and 7937 respectively. But if they are not bowlers that will put millions between us there.

[TStoneMBD]

youre probably right. theres a good chance im not the best in my subsets.

i change my choice to "most pathetic being on the planet"

that should do it

[threeonefour]

[chess, arithmatic, party SNG's, table tennis]

3 of the 4 are games/intellectual so i could see how a smart person who likes games could have me beat with this set. i think the key is to add a variety of events that use varying skills you possess since a good chess player is more likely to be good at arithmatic than the average individual.

[beating computers at 3 minute chess(no increment, premoved allowed by the human but not the computer), arithmatic, party SNG's, table tennis, dodgeball, the 'new' tetris (the N64 version where you make squares)]

might be a better set but might be a bit long

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Is it percentile that matters, or just adding up your ranks?

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Correct, if we do world rank, you own me... percentile and I think I have the edge.

If you stipulate thumbless bowlers, I start to become a juggernaut.

NT

[threeonefour]

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Is it percentile that matters, or just adding up your ranks?

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Correct, if we do world rank, you own me... percentile and I think I have the edge.

If you stipulate thumbless bowlers, I start to become a juggernaut.

NT


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percentile should be the same as world rank if by percentile you mean the percentile of human beings you are better than. if by percentile you mean "percentile of human beings who already compete in this event regularly you beat" then the two would be different but i don't think that is what the OP intended.

ie if you are in the top 10% then you are necessarily ranked within the the top 600 million human beings regardless of the event. you are ranked in each event relative to the same total population which is 6 billion.

[Senor Choppy]

pinball + limit holdem for me.

[z32fanatic]

My set:
Golf
Tennis
Pot Limit Omaha
Madden 2005 Xbox
Fantasy Baseball Leagues

[RocketManJames]

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percentile should be the same as world rank if by percentile you mean the percentile of human beings you are better than. if by percentile you mean "percentile of human beings who already compete in this event regularly you beat" then the two would be different but i don't think that is what the OP intended.

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Right, percentile would be equivalent to world ranking... I definitely did not mean world ranking to be related to any formal world rank. As I said earlier, even though I've never been on a horse before, I do not believe I'd be ranked at 5 billion for horse racing.

Also, I think that most people who think that a set consisting of only 3 or 4 'competitive events' are likely fooling themselves. But, I could be very wrong.

Take someone who is GREAT at 1 event and VERY GOOD at 2 others... say his world ranks are 1000 = GREAT, 100,000 = VERY GOOD, and 199,000 = VERY GOOD. Now his total score = 300,000.

If someone is VERY GOOD at the same 3, but happens to have world ranks equal to 90,000 for all of them, he's AHEAD of the other guy. Now consider if you had a guy that was 199,000th in tennis and 100,000th in tennis... how different are their games to a casual observer (or to themselves)? I think that this question is a variant of an optimization problem that's interesting.

There are all these trade-offs to consider as you add events to your set.

As I read more responses, maybe my guess of 40 events was way too conservative. But, I would be very surprised if the true number for a minimal set where I'm #1 is 10 or less. The world is a really big place, there are BILLIONS of people.

-RMJ