xkcd #3110: Global Ranking
xkcd #3110: Global Ranking
Title text:
Starting a meta-leaderboard for tracking who holds the record for ranking behind the most distinct people on an online leaderboard.
Transcript:
[Cueball is seated at a desk, and uses a laptop. White Hat is standing right behind him.]Cueball: I'm ranked 7,145,000th globally on this chess platform.Cueball: It's hard to be ranked that low in any activity.
[Zoom on Cueball talking]Cueball: Few pastimes even have 7 million rated players. Until the Internet, it wasn't really possible. You could be this bad, but only unofficially.
[Cueball is now facing White Hat]Cueball: So in a sense, I'm worse at chess than anyone was at anything for most of human history.White Hat: Why are you still doing it?
[Cueball is back on the laptop]Cueball: Well, no human has ever had this many friends to play with.White Hat: That person is calling you some very obscene names.Cueball: Our friendship is complicated.
Source: https://xkcd.com/3110/