"Discover how your math and physics skills rank on a global scale."

On the homepage of this website, it says "Discover how your math and physics skills rank on a global scale." I have now earned more than 10000 points on this website, but I have yet to discover how I rank on a global scale. Are leaderboards an idea? Most stars/points/solutions, per country/continent/worldwide? I would definitely love that. By doing that, users can also easily see how many Brilliant users their country has, without having to ask that in a separate discussion.

#FeatureRequests

Easy Math Editor

This discussion board is a place to discuss our Daily Challenges and the math and science related to those challenges. Explanations are more than just a solution — they should explain the steps and thinking strategies that you used to obtain the solution. Comments should further the discussion of math and science.

When posting on Brilliant:

Use the emojis to react to an explanation, whether you're congratulating a job well done , or just really confused .
Ask specific questions about the challenge or the steps in somebody's explanation. Well-posed questions can add a lot to the discussion, but posting "I don't understand!" doesn't help anyone.
Try to contribute something new to the discussion, whether it is an extension, generalization or other idea related to the challenge.
Stay on topic — we're all here to learn more about math and science, not to hear about your favorite get-rich-quick scheme or current world events.

Markdown	Appears as
`italics` or `_italics_`	italics
`bold` or `__bold__`	bold
- bulleted - list	bulleted list
1. numbered 2. list	numbered list
Note: you must add a full line of space before and after lists for them to show up correctly
paragraph 1 paragraph 2	paragraph 1 paragraph 2
`[example link](https://brilliant.org)`	example link
`> This is a quote`	This is a quote
# I indented these lines # 4 spaces, and now they show # up as a code block. print "hello world"	# I indented these lines # 4 spaces, and now they show # up as a code block. print "hello world"

Math	Appears as
Remember to wrap math in `$` ... `$` or `\[` ... `\]` to ensure proper formatting.
`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$

Comments

Hi Tim,

Currently we are fudging a little on that homepage. Our levels and weekly leader boards only very coarsely tell you how you rank on a global scale. We do want to change our leaderboards and your personal problem solving metrics, to include information that better informs you how your skills rank on a global scale. However, we do not necessarily think that rank ordered lists are the best way to do that. See my comment in the top scorers

Changes to our leaderboards and how people can use them, are very high on the development team’s priority list. Additionally, what kind of data/progress you see about yourself privately might see a major rejuvenation. The end desire will be a way to create lists of weekly and long term performance that:

Are encouraging to everyone and not demoralizing to most people. Make Brilliant feel competitive in only the fun ways as opposed to being alienating to many. Are interesting and useful as opposed to a wall of info.

In any reinvention of our leaderboards scheme there will likely be the ability to browse and filter based on location and maybe even interest, etc…

And always note that any future changes you see will probably be incremental and non-permanent as Brilliant evolves to the system that works the best with the most people’s motivations.

Peter Taylor Staff - 8 years ago

Math	Appears as
Remember to wrap math in `\(` ... `\)` or `\[` ... `\]` to ensure proper formatting.
`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$