What is your goal for playing level in Go?

[Groin]

@esoka

Related question to the western players, why do you limit yourself to 1d specifically?

The “shodan” archetype of which you can find books would be 4-5 kyu with the current OGS system. In addition to that there’s not much difference between, for instance, 1 kyu and 1 dan. I reckon the difference is even smaller than that between 2 kyu and 1 kyu.

If I were asked to create some sort of tiers from the western perspective, I’d do it this way:

• on OGS beginner to ~15k
• ~14k to ~12k
• ~11k to ~7k
• ~6k to ~4k
• ~3k to ~2d
• and then continuing it on fox ~1d (assuming 4k here) to ~4d, [this line is for western players only, not the asian players that are already on there]
• ~5d to ~7d
• ~8d to weak 9d
• strong 9d to 10d

Do you think your perspective is illustrated by this graph?

Unofficial OGS rank histogram 2021

[Outdated] [Histogram 2021] I remade the histogram for new ranks as a good tradition. Percents on the bottom are basically percentiles. They’re calculated from green part of the players as “everyone weaker than the given rank” plus “half of the players in the given rank” and rounded to nearest. Thus, it shows approximate percentile of a median player in the given rank.

Accurate percentiles

0: 68.4k 1: 29.6k 2: 26.9k 3: 25.1k 4: 24.0k 5: 22.9k 6: 22.1k 7: 21.3k 8: 20.7k 9: 2…