Comments on: what percentile am I in?

By: Bob K

Bob K — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:01:21 +0000

Being in the top 20% percentile means that if you arrange the scores from highest to lowest, your score is somewhere in the first 20% of the list. Since 20% = 0.2, there are

244,695 * 0.2 = 48,993

scores which qualify for the 20% percentile.

To figure out your percentile from your rank you do,
total_number_of_scores * p = your_rank
244695 * p = 9466
p = 0.039 =

Which is the 4th percentile.

Now generally though percentiles are calculated as how far you are from the bottom rather than how close to the top,
so it would generally be called the 96th percentile.

By: §カンザス§ ≈ 文化人類学の戦士

§カンザス§ ≈ 文化人類学の戦士 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:43:58 +0000

(244695-9466)/244695 = 96.1%

By: donimun101

donimun101 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:58:30 +0000

The answer: 25.849883
I only divided 244,695 by 9,466

By: Billy J

Billy J — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:19:42 +0000

9466 / 244695 = .039 * 100 = 3.9

100% – 3.9 = 96.1% so 96.1 percentile

By: Brian H

Brian H — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:22:30 +0000

9466 / 244695 = 3.87%

You are in the top 3.87%