#3110: Global Ranking

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[Cueball is seated at a desk, and uses a laptop. White Hat is standing right behind him.]

Cueball: I'm ranked 7,145,000^th globally on this chess platform.

Cueball: It's hard to be ranked that low in any activity.

[Zoom on Cueball talking]

Cueball: Few pastimes even have 7 million rated players. Until the Internet, it wasn't really possible. You could be this bad, but only unofficially.

[Cueball is now facing White Hat]

Cueball: So in a sense, I'm worse at chess than anyone was at anything for most of human history.

White Hat: Why are you still doing it?

[Cueball is back on the laptop]

Cueball: Well, no human has ever had this many friends to play with.

White Hat: That person is calling you some very obscene names.

Cueball: Our friendship is complicated.