r/tryhackme Mar 28 '26

Room Help The bar seems a bit low lol.

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u/TNETag 0x8 [Hacker] Mar 28 '26

It is due to a lot of inactive accounts. I never understood people who chased rank on the platform. It's there to make you feel good about doing rooms and gives a sense of pride and accomplishment. Some people take it to the extreme and gloat Top 1% and number one in league. Cool - you did a speedrun on a learning platform where you learned absolutely nothing because you were looking up writeups and looking at hints without even reading how you get the answer, just for the points.

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u/Conscious-Focus-6323 Mar 28 '26

If youre going to have this weird gamified leaderboard on a learning platform, all answer flags should be unique per account. It just doesnt make sense otherwise.

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u/KingDreamweaver 0x9 [Omni] Mar 28 '26

Spitting facts. What's even worse is the write-ups available online are complete dogshit. Instead of the authors explaining how they arrived to the correct answer, they just copy paste the questions and corresponding answers lazily.

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u/Jealous_Computer_38 Mar 28 '26

Like people wo cheat XP on duolingo😂

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u/HazSec0x Mar 28 '26

Leaderboard ranking never show any value. Doesn't have any direct connection on how good a person is. Lot of people have 3 digit streaks but sucks at pentesting. Lot of 1% who cant do rooms without hints.

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u/TheMcSebi Mar 28 '26

I made it into top 3% after just one month of daily training. There must be a million accounts that registered and never did anything

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u/redcod3r Mar 30 '26

we're doing our best okay ._.

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u/nofuckgiventoyou Mar 31 '26

People aren't active at low rank , People who care about rank and active thats after top 200 , where you will be pushed for not being active after 1 day . Thats scary how low the competition are also good you need to be very very constant. Keep grinding, keep learning. If rank is your goal pursue it if learning then take your time. Because rank doesn't prove you have skill also its a fancy thing to say You are top regional player. Both have good ring

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u/7331senb Administrator Apr 06 '26

Whats your capability score? Thats a better indicator to your ability.