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by gcr 304 days ago
Nope! “Top K” means you’re on the high score list of size K.

Only the best players are in the “top 1%” for example. Being in the top 50 is more prestigious than the top 300,000.

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Maybe if you do worse than half the people, it should invert to say the bottom 30% or the bottom 1%. Makes it clearer that you did "badly".
I think the current way is fine but showing position on the bell curve would help for those who struggle with interpretation