ranks

[Arch0wl]

I've been playing FFR again recently, and I've noticed this oddity: the harder the song, the more people seem to come out of nowhere to occupy its higher ranks.

For example, on Revolutionary Etude 130,000 people played it and I'm in the top 250. Yet for Death Piano, which not only has harder jacks but longer jacks, I'm barely in the top 700, and Death Piano by comparison has only been played by 39,000 people. There are other instances like this, but the DP-Revo comparison really drives home the point because they require similar skills. You'd think that this would be the opposite -- obviously if you play Death Piano you're the kind of person who would play songs in similar difficulty ranges, and Revolutionary Rtude should have come to your attention at some point.

Does anyone know what could account for this disparity? I've been making a few spread files recently, and I like to know where I stand relative to everyone else just in case my files are too easy or too hard. If these ranks really are reflective of everyone else's skill that's fine to me, but it doesn't seem like it.