Percentile
The share of players a result beats, which turns a raw number into a position in the population.
Also known as percentile rank, top percent.
A percentile answers the only question a raw statistic leaves open: compared to whom? 2,400 combined damage on a given vehicle means nothing until it is placed against everyone else's, where it might be the 65th or the 99th percentile depending on the tank.
percentile = share of the tracked population this result is better thanThis is also what the rating colours encode: they are bands of the population, which is why the same colour means the same thing across two ratings that use different scales.
Related terms
Marks of ExcellenceThe one, two or three marks painted on a vehicle's barrel, awarded for sustaining combined damage in the top 65, 85 or 95 percent of everyone playing that vehicle on the server.Rating colorsThe nine-step colour scale the community reads ratings through, running from black at the bottom to dark purple at the top.Expected valuesThe per-vehicle server averages a rating measures a player against: what a typical player produces in that exact tank.