Rating and Rank
Instead of relying on fixed rating thresholds, rating colors are defined by your gaming skills (calculated by a specific algorithm called WHR, similar to Elo) expressed as a percentiles of the player base. Rating colors can only be gained or lost after holding one's position in the new percentile for multiple games.
Here is a list of the rating colors:
Examples | Color | Theme | Percentile |
---|---|---|---|
![]() ![]() ![]() |
Gamma ray | Singularity | Top 1% |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
X-ray | Neutron star | Top 5% |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
Blue white | Supergiant | Top 10% |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
Bright yellow | Giant | Top 20% |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
Orange | Subgiant | Top 40% |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
Red | Red dwarf | Top 60% |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
Dark red | Brown dwarf | Top 80% |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
Infrared | Nebula | Everyone |
The rank level itself is defined by the accumulated total time spent in game.
Here is a list of the ranks, with color Orange:
The progress bar "Level XXX" shows your rank level. It is dependent on total time spent in game.
The progress bar below it shows your position with respect to the next cosmic object (in other words, how far you are from the next color, which is dependent on your gaming skills).
Debug data:
[SQLBagOStuff] MainObjectStash using store ReplicatedBagOStuff
[objectcache] MainWANObjectCache using store EmptyBagOStuff
IP: 216.73.216.226
Start request GET /mediawiki/index.php?direction=next&oldid=7919&title=Rating_and_Rank
HTTP HEADERS:
CONTENT-TYPE:
CONTENT-LENGTH: 0
USER-AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
HOST: zero-k.info
COOKIE: wikidb229_mw__session=jtvd54shskhufmugp1047lbe5b6gd7e7
ACCEPT-ENCODING: gzip, br, zstd, deflate
ACCEPT: */*
CONNECTION: close[localisation] LocalisationCache: using store LCStoreDB
[session] SessionManager using store SqlBagOStuff
[session] Session "jtvd54shskhufmugp1047lbe5b6gd7e7" requested without UserID cookie
[DBReplication] Cannot use ChronologyProtector with EmptyBagOStuff
[DBReplication] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory::getChronologyProtector: request info {
"IPAddress": "216.73.216.226",
"UserAgent": "Mozilla\/5.0 AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot\/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"ChronologyProtection": false,
"ChronologyPositionIndex": 0,
"ChronologyClientId": false
}[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::lazyLoadReplicationPositions: executed chronology callback.
[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLocalConnection: connected to database 0 at 'localhost'.
[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff
[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff
[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLocalConnection: connected to database 0 at 'localhost'.
Title::getRestrictionTypes: applicable restrictions to [[Rating and Rank]] are {edit,move}
[ContentHandler] Created handler for wikitext: WikitextContentHandler
[MessageCache] MessageCache using store SqlBagOStuff
[localisation] LocalisationCache::isExpired(en): cache for en expired due to GlobalDependency
[localisation] LocalisationCache::recache: got localisation for en from source
[DBQuery] startAtomic: entering level 0 (LCStoreDB::finishWrite)
[DBQuery] endAtomic: leaving level 0 (LCStoreDB::finishWrite)
[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff
[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff
[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff
[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff
[SQLBagOStuff] SqlBagOStuff::lock failed due to timeout for wikidb229-mw_:messages:en.
[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff
[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff
[MessageCache] MessageCache::load: Loading en... local cache is empty, global cache is expired/volatile, loading from database
ParserFactory: using preprocessor: Preprocessor_Hash
Unstubbing $wgLang on call of $wgLang::_unstub from ParserOptions->__construct
[caches] parser: SqlBagOStuff
Article::view using parser cache: no
Article::view: doing uncached parse
[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff
[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff
Parser cache options found.
[Preprocessor] Cached preprocessor output (key: wikidb229-mw_:preprocess-hash:94682f5745a5861ecc6bcb052f438742:0)
[Preprocessor] Cached preprocessor output (key: wikidb229-mw_:preprocess-hash:94682f5745a5861ecc6bcb052f438742:0)
[DBPerformance] Sub-optimal transaction on DB(s) [localhost (wikidb229-mw_) (TRX#5d3747)]:
0 4.041364 query-m: DELETE FROM `mw_l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'X' [TRX#5d3747]
1 0.003770 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
2 0.003714 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
3 0.003635 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
4 0.003419 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
5 0.003179 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
6 0.002877 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
7 0.002715 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
8 0.002745 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
9 0.002702 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
10 0.002983 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
11 0.003088 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
12 0.003014 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
13 0.002928 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
14 0.004308 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
15 0.003719 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
16 0.005089 query-m: INSERT INTO `mw_l10n_cache` (lc_lang,lc_key,lc_value) VALUES ('X') [TRX#5d3747]
17 0.001422 query-m: REPLACE INTO `mw_objectcache` (keyname,value,exptime) VALUES ('X')MediaWiki::preOutputCommit: primary transaction round committed
MediaWiki::preOutputCommit: pre-send deferred updates completed
MediaWiki::preOutputCommit: session changes committed
MediaWiki::preOutputCommit: LBFactory shutdown completed
Title::getRestrictionTypes: applicable restrictions to [[Rating and Rank]] are {edit,move}