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Understanding JMark's rankings

JMark's rankings include both a score ranking and a percentile. You can see JMark rankings only for the Processor and AWT Playback tests and only on the Rankings screen. Scores are available for ranking only when users have saved their scores to the online database; if your computer is not connected to the Internet, your scores are compared to an internal list of scores.

Score Ranking

Your JMark score ranking is, of course, based on your score. If JMark ranks your score as 90 out of 100 scores, then your score ranks near the bottom. Likewise, if JMark ranks your score as 10 of 100 scores, then your score ranks near the top.

But what happens when more than one person posts the same JMark score to the online database? Say, for example, three different people all scored 147. In this case, the person who saved his results to the database first is listed first in the rankings.

So, if you get a score of 147, and the best score that JMark reports is 147, yet JMark ranks your score as 5, that means that four people got the top score and posted their results before you posted yours.

Percentile

Your JMark percentile is basically the same as the score ranking, but phrased as a percentage.

Think of the percentile the way you would an SAT score. If your JMark score is ranked at 60%, that means you scored better than 60% of all people who have saved their JMark scores to the online database.

     

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