UncleFrank
Veteran
If you have X time, you are in the top Y% of all WCA competitors for that event.
These are just plain, basic percentiles.
If you have X time, you are in the top Y% of all WCA competitors for that event.
These are just plain, basic percentiles.
These are all official WCA times from the official WCA database export, which is updated daily and contains all the results from every WCA comp ever held.
I used official PR averages for the majority of events, but used singles for FMC and all BLDs due to so few avg's available for them.
This is an update of my chart from June 2022, which is itself an update of the original posted on Reddit 5 years ago by a different user.
That user was a competitive swimmer and got the idea from the motivational time standards published by USA Swimming, the governing body for competitive swimming in the US.
The choice of % breakdown and category labels (AAA, BB, C, etc.) is just random and made up just to give some points of reference.
The point is purely motivational, to compare yourself in several different ways, and give more definitive targets to set goals for yourself.
One way to look at this is, “I have a CC time in 3x3 but a B time in 2x2.” This lets you know that you are comparatively better at 2x2 than 3x3. Another way to look at it is if your main event is clock and your friend’s main event is OH, you can see who is comparatively 'better' at their event. Another way to look at this is, “I have an AA time in 3x3. How fast does that translate to 4x4?”
The original creator said they wrote a Python program to calculate the numbers, but I just opened some of the database export tsv files in a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet and used spreadsheet formulas.
These are just plain, basic percentiles.
If you have X time, you are in the top Y% of all WCA competitors for that event.
These are just plain, basic percentiles.
These are all official WCA times from the official WCA database export, which is updated daily and contains all the results from every WCA comp ever held.
I used official PR averages for the majority of events, but used singles for FMC and all BLDs due to so few avg's available for them.
This is an update of my chart from June 2022, which is itself an update of the original posted on Reddit 5 years ago by a different user.
That user was a competitive swimmer and got the idea from the motivational time standards published by USA Swimming, the governing body for competitive swimming in the US.
The choice of % breakdown and category labels (AAA, BB, C, etc.) is just random and made up just to give some points of reference.
The point is purely motivational, to compare yourself in several different ways, and give more definitive targets to set goals for yourself.
One way to look at this is, “I have a CC time in 3x3 but a B time in 2x2.” This lets you know that you are comparatively better at 2x2 than 3x3. Another way to look at it is if your main event is clock and your friend’s main event is OH, you can see who is comparatively 'better' at their event. Another way to look at this is, “I have an AA time in 3x3. How fast does that translate to 4x4?”
The original creator said they wrote a Python program to calculate the numbers, but I just opened some of the database export tsv files in a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet and used spreadsheet formulas.
