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Hi,

You just ranked up. There is additionnal honor granted when that happens. Nothing special about that.
(Weird you didn't notice it when you ranked up 7 kyu then 6kyu before that ;) )

More info there

cheers

No.

What you see on your profile is honor and that table contains progress score (responsible for your rank ex. 4 kyu) which on your profile is displayed as the wheel and its numerical value can be checked by calling API.

Thank you!

Using IDE is always fine and it's never grounds for invalidation of a solution. This is fine. They could be invalidated by a mod for some reason, but the reason would never be using an IDE.

I will check what could happen to your solutions.

just remove these kata from my "complete" - they are not completely self-made solutions to be honest. I have suggested many things from others, so maybe someday I will come back to these tasks and do them more on my own.
If you could also delete this one https://www.codewars.com/kata/5e41c408b72541002eda0982 it would be great.

If you could also delete this one...

it was already invalidated (along with the two purples).

just remove these kata from my "complete"

unfortunately, that's not possible (no tools to do so)

So I will never be able to get points for doing these kata anymore? that's not cool ;/

effetively, you won't.

now it seems unfair to me. I wanted to do these kata at another time again.
yesterday I spend about 6 hours to do them and today it turns out that I do not have a reward for complete and I will never be able to gain it again.
despite the fact that I spent a lot of time researching and doing this task, I shouldn't lose points for doing it. And I definitely shouldn't get a "ban" to do it in the future.

You aren't banned from doing the kata again. You merely just won't get the points when you do. You might think that is not fair, but was it fair for you to get the points in the first place, if the solutions were not all yours?

using stack overflow and google in everyday work is the norm for me. of course, I did not copy the solution from the internet.
I only googled my thoughts on how to solve particular problems, because I am not a genius, I am only a human being. And I don't translate my thoughts into code without any help from the internet or books. I use MDN or stackoverflow all the time, both helping others and looking for clues to deal with my own problem.
and this is what i wanted to say that maybe in the future i would somehow solve this problem without using books, the internet or directions from someone else. But take points from someone FOR NO REASON for completing the task. I admitted that I used information from the Internet to get to the solution, but I never said that I copied the solution. Hence my question now why the reward for solving the task has been canceled.
whatever this conversation is a waste of time anyway. it's all. have a nice day, thank you for the lack of explanation how my award was canceled. And thank you for accusing me of cheating.

I feel your pain dandrok. What is the great benefit of getting points here? Does it reward us in some way? Very new here.

Points are just points, they don't really get you anywhere. It's just that I am personally motivated by gaining "ranks", "points" etc. I like competetive.
I set up the topic only with an inquiry and curiosity - "what happened to my points".

A couple of days ago, two of your solutions of blue kata were invalidated by a mod, that is why your rank slightly dropped. These are old solutions, from July 2020. All your recent solutions are valid and you still have points for them. In total you have a few (4 or 6 or so, would have to count exactly and it's not easy) solutions invalidated by a mod, most probably because they were recognized as copies from other solutions or somewhere from internet.

Could I know their names?

I'd have to check, but one possible reason is that the submitted solution was recognized as a copy of someone else's solution and points for it got withdrawn.

What kata was that? Was the solution originally yours?

It was Mine Sweeper. I am very sure the solution was mine. Worked on it a couple of hours during a week and didn't look at the solutions either. :)

try to avoid posting solution while you're not logged in, to avoid this kind of situation, next time.

revalidated & cheers

Do you know what kata exactly would these be? I can see that you have unlocked solutions for a couple of kata ("MakeUpperCase", "Money, Money, Money",and two more), so you won't get points for them. Other than these, all your points are granted and I see that your points add up correctly.

If you think something is still wrong, please reach out to a mod on #support-requests channel of Codewars Discord.

how do i see which solutions are unlocked?

Unfortunately, you can't. Moderators can. In your case, it's:

• "MakeUpperCase"
• "Money, Money, Money"
• "Basic Mathematical Operations"
• "Remove exclamation marks"

And maybe some other kata which you have unlocked, but have not submitted any solution yet.

https://docs.codewars.com/gamification/honor

hello,

you didn't "solve" the last one: you used a solution of another user. So the points got removed.

cheers

Thanks for the answer.

yeah, we know that ;) (you can edit your message to remove the reference, now, thx)

I didn’t know it was wrong. Thank you.

cus you're full of it

I have had a look at the solutions, and you have pretty obviously copied a solution from another user, so I would say it is most likely that your solution was invalidated from your account. You are lucky you didn't get worse.

Yes.

(You DO get more rank progress for a 5kyu, than a 6kyu though. That is seperate from honour)

Damn!! I thought they were the same all this time.Now why'd they have to go and make it so complicated XD /s

You're at 4kyu so why are you doing 5 and 6?

Idk.Cuz i can??

@ansis m what's wrong with that?

What kata have you passed? I can see that you solved only 4 of them:"Multiply", "Sum of odd numbers", "String ends with?", and "Vowel Count". I cannot see any other completions on your account. What kata are missing?

Your rank (displayed in a kyu/dan badge) is not directly related to Honor points. You can find some infomation here: https://docs.codewars.com/gamification/ranks#leveling-your-rank

I want to know where I stand among other users according to my honor. How to know that?

Here

Which kata is that?

Everything seems to be OK with your points, have they appeared, or are some still missing?

I did Kebabize Kata, my rank didn't seem to move from last time, unless the increments are small when you go up the ranks

it's not a bug and you are misinterpreting your stats. Highest trained means what language you have trained to the highest level, and not a level of the most difficultkata you have solved.

rarely, there might be a delay between the solve and the rewrd. I guess you got them in the meantime? (or sometimes, you just have to reload the page to actually see the update)

I got the honors.I'm sorry if I bothered you.I should have waited a bit.Thanks!!

How long did you wait? This had happened to me with a 4kyu last night. I saw my score increase by 2, which was twelve hours ago. I even whipped up a quick spread sheet to make sure I wasn't mistaken about my total honour. =D

So, as an update for anyone else that experiences this. My wait for a score update ended with the completion of another kata. A level 8 one in my case.

I guess we will have to manage our dopamine hit expectations. You know I can quit anytime I want... NEXT KATA!!

The same problem. I solved https://www.codewars.com/kata/5ae64f28d2ee274164000118/python Thanks.

just reload the page

I did try reloading multiple times before and it didn't work, but I can see the honor's been added now, thank you.

yeah, rarely, there can be some delay. But generally it's only a cache thing, so reloading the page is enough.

Hi,

I guess you're talking about Double Sort?

According to what I see in your profile, you forfeited that kata (meaning you unlocked the solutions page), so you effectively won't get any honor/progress with it.

Cheers

Okay good to know, probably I unlocked the kata by mistake. However you can see my solution is in fact different as the solutions. Never mind!Thank's anyway.

because you forfeited the last 3. forfeit => no points.

Can you see the message 'Next stats refresh in X hours' on your profile page?

Thank you, I got it.

You encountered exactly the same issue as Toni_Mori below.

Sometimes it happens that when you solve a kata your points are correctly awarded, they get updated on the front end (that's why you see they rise), but backend cache fails to update - that's why they seem to disappear after refresh or navigation to other page. But it's related only to caching: your points are still there, and after some time, when cache expires, they will appear. You can also force recalculation of the cache by any action which modifies your honor: solve a white kata, or re-cast some satisfaction vote. It usually triggers recalculation of the cache and updates your points, making the missing ones to appear.

BTW a blue kata is worth 2 general points for solving a kata + 30 points for the blue rank + eventually 1 point for vote.

that's only one of those two things:

• either you changed of tab and the points weren't up to date
• or that's a cache thing.

All your points are there and they always have been ;)

It looks like a cache issue. Now it appears correctly. Thanks guys!!!

You got hit by an issue related to caching, all your points are there and should be visible now.

Solving kata in a local IDE is perfectly allowed.

Hello,

Just refresh the page, it should be good. As far as I can see, everything is "there". Can you please confirm?

I think it solved. Thanks.

As much as I can see, nothing happened to your honor and all points you earned are still there. You have 47 kata solved (and awarded), and one forfeited (not awarded). The fact that your solution to "Testing 1-2-3" ended up grouped with another solution is not a problem in this case.

I believe that you probably misremembered your honor, and it actually got increased. Do you remember how much honor you had before it decreased?

was slightly more than 63%, and became 62.875%. This is not critical, but I want to understand what's the matter))

solved the problem again 7 kyu Well of Ideas - Harder Version The honor was 62.875% and became 61.825%. Why is my honor declining?

Don't worry, as far as I see, your honor is not declining.

First of all, the percentage you see is not Honor, but it's so called "rank progress". They are a little bit different, you can see some details on it here: https://docs.codewars.com/concepts/gamification/ .

Now, as to why the number decreases, I cannot tell you, because I do not know. I wold expect some issues with updating the values on the front-end. Do you see the difference between values on two separate tabs, or it's sometimes larger, and then smaller, in the same tab? Does it get back to larger value after some time?

As much as I can see, all your points are there and you are doing progress. Please check if the value gets back to normal after some time when viewed on the same or on a new browser tab, and not on some old one.

@Fedosnew: those percents are not your "honor points", but your honor percentile. If it decreases, it means you're going up in the "leaderboard" (even if you cannot see yourself there yet). 61.825% means that 61.825% of all the users are ranked "above" you. The lower, the better. That is... if you care about that x)

Cheers

Oh, so @Fedosnew meant the percentile all the time, and not progress. I did not think of it, and I should *facepalm*

As far as I can see, your solutions were invalidated by a moderator because they were found to be dishonest copies of other solutions.

There is a known bug (reported here) which makes your solutions sometimes not appear on solutions page. But it usually does not prevent you from getting Honor. I will take a look and check if there's something wrong with your solutions, but I can already see that 7 of them failed grouping and do not appear on solutions page.

Make sure you submit final right after you submit your solution. I've noticed not doing it that way sometimes doesn't show my solution where you say.

thank you

Your rank is not exactly based on Honor. How quick you reach 5 kyu depends on how difficult kata you solve. Some info can be found here: https://docs.codewars.com/concepts/gamification/ranks/#leveling-your-rank

But you can generally observe your rank progress circle in your profile so you will know how far from 5 kyu you are.

I've got to rank 5 kyu when I was around 310 honor, and that was doing mostly 8 kyu problems with a sprinkling of higher level problems.

Please see if this part of docs is of any help.

Ranks are not exactly honor based: https://docs.codewars.com/concepts/gamification/ranks/#leveling-your-rank

In your profile you can see you current position is 2151, and your honor percentile is 0.8%.From this, you can estimate amount of users as approx. 268k. I am not sure if it's any meaningful number though. Many accounts are abandoned, some are banned, some are irrelevant in some other way. Also the leaderboard of overall honor is not very meaningful either.

Completed kata leaderboard is much more interesting.

Thanks! (Before I didn't understand what 'honor percentile is 0.8%' means)

We don't include users with honor less than 128 to the leaderboard because there are a lot of them. Banned accounts are removed from the leaderboards as well.

For the actual number, we have slightly over 2M registered and had about 50K new users per month on average in 2020.

Not sure if we're seeing the same, but those are bonus points you gain for reaching that level, not the honor points at which you gain that level. I mean these: https://github.com/Codewars/codewars.com/wiki/Honor-&-Ranks#honor-points

You must check this other table: https://github.com/Codewars/codewars.com/wiki/Honor-&-Ranks#leveling-your-rank

Perfect! That's just what I was looking for. Thanks for the quick reply

I would like to clarify that honor points and the rank score are two different things. You need to gain 26 rank score points to reach 6 kyu.

26 76

No, monadius is right, check this:

{
  username: "amartinson193",
  name: null,
  honor: 65,
  clan: "Martinson",
  leaderboardPosition: null,
  skills: null,
  ranks: {
    overall: {
      rank: -7,
      name: "7 kyu",
      color: "white",
      score: 50
    },
    languages: {
      python: {
        rank: -7,
        name: "7 kyu",
        color: "white",
        score: 47
      },
      r: {
        rank: -8,
        name: "8 kyu",
        color: "white",
        score: 3
      }
    }
  },
  codeChallenges: {
    totalAuthored: 0,
    totalCompleted: 12
  }
}

He has a score of 50, and needs 26 to reach 76 and get 6kyu level. Honor points and rank are different things.

oops, 'misread the beginning of the sentence, sorry

Hello,

No, that’s not a glitch. We (the Codewars moderation team) can't disclose the details for obvious reasons, but we track how you complete kata and flag suspicious events. Then we invalidate the progress after reviewing them if completions are invalid. For repeated offenders, we ban the account itself.

Your account has been studied and numerous evidences of plagiarism have been found. As a consequence, solutions got invalidated and this account has been filed for a ban. This decision is final.

Note that we don't flag unless it's obvious because there's no way to review every submission. This means your activities were clearly unusual to begin with. Try to think what might have caused it and don't do it again if you create a new account (of course, you perfectly can).

Regards

How would he get those points back? Considering if this ever happened to me.

Considering the fact that the user got banned, if the same thing ever happened to you, you'd have worse things to worry about than lost points :)

Just do not let this happen to you, and all will be good.

Please write in that kata's discourse, here it's off-topic.

In such situation you indeed cannot print the input, that's why it's important that kata author should provide enough information to debug the solution when test case fails. If you get failed tests without any feedback on input or anything what went wrong, you can suggest improvements or raise an issue in the kata discussion section.

Not that copy/pasting was meant.That was about copy/pasting of other user's solution from internet or codewars.

It's not what is meant by copying and pasting being problematic in context of Codewars. Working in local IDE is perfectly OK, and by some (for example me) strongly recommended way of working with kata.

If you use your account to read the kata, grab the initial solution and tests from the trainer, solve the kata in your IDE and then paste it back into the trainer to submit, it's perfectly fine, you do not need to retype anything.

Solving harder katas.

and after completing katas rate them you will get 1 point for approved and I think 2 for betas

Voting kata grants additional honor points, but does not increase your kyu rank. You can advance your rank only by solving kata.

let duel with me bruh :v

That means you're in a smaller upper group.

thanks for the attention. can you ellobrate it please

It means you're in top X % of all users.

No, but don't copy/paste the solutions in the trainer. Incase, if you want to analyse the solution, click on "Fork" and then "Run".

of course no, just want to know how it work in different language. btw thank's for the answer, i appreciate it :)

You can solve kata in different languages. That won't affect your honor or your overall rank, but that will increase the rank for those languages, yes. XFRXLP is talking about trying solutions of other users in the language you already solved (and so, to not try them in the trainer but to use the fork panel)

Some readings about rank/honor

glad to hear that, thank you :)

Hi,

That is matching the 1 kyu that got invalidated because you used the solution of another user. No bug, nothing anormal, nothing to do with solving 8 kyus.

Cheers

Do you mean the "Skyscrappers 7 x 7"? But there I independently solved a simpler version of the problem "Skyscrappers 6 x 6", and after the solutions of it had been opened to me, I used the solution of another player to solve a more complex version of the problem, because it turned out to be universal, is that not fair? I did not used any spoilers.

Yes, the 7x7 one. The idea is: you just copied/pasted the solution of another user so you actually didn't have to do anything to earn those points, hence they are considered invalid.
It is pretty obvious it is an isolated thing, for you, so you can go on like usual, don't worry. Just know that this kind of behaviour is frown upon and might will lead to some invalidations when encountered, yes.

Cheers

Note to other copycats (not relevant for you, Alexzunder):
No, moving around functions, changing var/function names or adding/removing comments to only deduplicate your solution from the original one isn't any different from "just copied/pasted"...)

Thanks for your reply. The rule seems pretty clear.

But, the question remains about similar katas that have a simpler version, whose solutions are also suitable for complex ones - it turns out that we need to somehow artificially and creatively change the solution that has opened to us in order to apply it to a more complex version of the kata or not look at the solutions at all, am I right?

I also did not receive any automatic notification that my solution was rejected, which would be extremely useful - just for knowing what happened with my score.

Thanks again for your time.

it turns out that we need to somehow artificially and creatively change the solution that has opened to us in order to apply it to a more complex version of the kata or not look at the solutions at all, am I right?

Yes, you're "sort of right". It might seem a bit weird, I agree. The problem is rather that we have users who solve easier kata with generic solutions, allowing this to happen...

notifications: unfortunately, this isn't implemented so far. It could be useful in your case, yes, but I'm not sure it will be done (you're kind of an "exception", actually. Other users whom it's happening generally perfectly know the how and the why of it)

Ok, now I will know about this feature, thanks, Blind4Basics.

just because... that's the way it is.

But completing kata, you get honor and progress in addition (progress is what is conditionning your rank, not honor). And progress gained from different kyu levels are different. You can find more info there: https://docs.codewars.com/concepts/gamification/

Unfortunately, no. There's no other way to get rid of unfinished kata other than completing them, but you can solve them in any language. However, they are not a very big problem. They do not influence any of your stats, they do not change anything, they just trash your "Unfinished Kata" list. It's difficult to clean up and they will pile up with time, and for example, I have currently ~220 of them.

if u finish and kata in language 1 then u get honor if u finish the same kata in langugage 2,do u get honor again?

@bluiisdave No, you don't get honor for finishing a kata in multiple languages. You also don't get general rank progress for doing the same kata in multiple languages. However, you do get rank progress for each individual language for completing a kata in multiple languages.

don't cheat?

I didn't. I did all the work in a separate IDE. Does the system think I just copy pasted?

yeah, copying solution on a separate IDE. You know, that count as cheating too.

Even if I coded it myself?

errr.... like...? you didn't copy/paste and you typed it by hand?

I cannot really make sense of what you're telling, sorry.

@Blind4Basics

Please communicate more professionally and avoid confusions. We've already discussed about this privately. You're a moderator now. If you can't, simply don't reply and let others handle it.

@TheCoolCoder509

Why did this happen and how can I fix it?

You can't. Your progress has been invalidated and you can't get that back. The decision is final.

We can't disclose the details for obvious reasons, but we track how you complete kata and flag suspicious events. Then we invalidate the progress after reviewing them. For repeated offenders, we ban the account itself.

Note that we don't flag unless it's obvious because there's no way to review every submission. This means your activities were clearly unusual to begin with. Try to think what might have caused it and don't do it again.

Just to be clear, using local IDE and pasting the solution you wrote is not cheating.

@kazk: noted.

Just to be clear, using local IDE and pasting the solution you wrote is not cheating.

Oh, that's what he meant? That didn't fit in my mind, sorry.

I don't know. I didn't think of any other interpretation when I wrote that. If they meant they had a separate Codewars IDE open in another account (including guest), then that's an unusual activity they should stop. It's very suspicious, but it's not cheating by itself.

I sometimes open up a second browser to see the initial solution and the simple test suite as guest. For me this is the way to find out about the initial solution without adding the kata to my unsolved katas list.

I presume that a kata is brought to the unsolved katas list the moment the "Train" button is clicked. If this could be changed to the event of clicking on either "test" or "submit" button on the train page, opening a seperate browser is no longer necessary.

Regards.

Did you find an answer to this? I was looking too and having no luck.

Documentation is still work in progress, but you can find some details here: https://docs.codewars.com/references/gamification/honor/

I'm not sure what you mean by achievements, but if you want to see where all your honor came from (which includes achievements), you can go to https://www.codewars.com/users/YOUR_USERNAME/site-events. Replace YOUR_USERNAME with your actual username.

Note that use of site events page is strongly discouraged though.

so for this one, I read the wiki and it says that performing Kata at different levels gives you different amounts of honor depending on what rank you're currently at

"When a kata is completed, you always received a set amount of honor points based on the level of the kata as well as an internal score that counts toward your next rank. Since every rank requires a higher score than the last, Completing an easy kata well below your current rank will result in little progress. However completing a hard kata above your current rank will give you much more progress towards leveling up. As such, completing a lot of low level katas will give you a lot of honor, but will not increase your rank very quickly. Completing more hard katas will level your rank faster."

Codewars docs are not yet complete, but hopefully this section can help explaining some things.

Me too but I found in the account settings you can name your clan and if you have the same name clan with someone and you follow each other. Automically you two will become an allies. When you have an ally you can see their progress in the home page.

you must higher than 4 kyu

That functionalty already exists on the Kata menu, you can make the search of the ones that has already been completed (status) and then sort by difficulty.

I guess its because you already know the solution, implementing it in another language would not be that difficult

You are still awarded with language progress for every language you solve a kata with. But Overall progress and Honor are awarded once per kata, because once you know the solution, there's no point in being awarded for it twice.

There are two things you have to distinguish: your Honor (currently 402 points), and your rank (currently 5 kyu). These two are independent.

Rank of solved kata influences several things:

• amount of honor for solving it,
• amount of honor for translating or authoring it,
• rank progress

While amount of Honor is fixed for every rank, the amount of your rank progress is relative to your current rank. So, for example, when you are 4 kyu and solve 4 kyu kata you get more honor, but as many progress % as when you are 5 kyu and solve 5 kyu kata.

https://github.com/Codewars/codewars.com/wiki/Honor-&-Ranks

Amazing, thanks a lot @hobovsky and @rge123

It means how many kata the user contributed to in some way.

Most common way of contributing to a kata is to provide a translation, but not the only one.

So contributed katas = translations accepted + katas directly edited + katas approved ? (not counting the authored ones)

Coming up with exact formula can be difficult, because mechanism of contributions changed over the time, and additionally was affected by various issues. For example, in the not so distant past, approving a translation did not make one a contributor, and the fact that approvers become contributors is probably a bug.

yeah i suspected so, I asked precisely because the stat seems to be broken/inconsistent

Sometimes there's some delay until points are added. Just wait a couple of hours and if you still don't get your points, raise an issue on CW github.

Thanks, i understood. I have submitted solution that task yet in Tuersday. So obviosly its bug.

please don't post your solution on github, that's forbidden.

OK, there is only description of kata.

Description in 372 lines?

@SubtRose: if you wanna archive your katas solutions on github, store them in a private repo. We have already enough troubles with morons who are just stalking github for solutions...

I thought you are talk about my link, not repo. Good, it will be done, i really didnt know what there are such troubles.

you ranked up because you earned enough honr. don't worry about it, you can just do whatever kata you want.

I know, but like I said it's not comfortable to pick them manually vs just doing whatever kata is being suggested and I don't want to do it this way. It means that to use this site the way I like I have to create a new account every couple of weeks which seems stupid but if there's no other way it seems like it's my only option.

If you know any websites simmiliar to CW without such stupid system please let me know.

It's unlikey anyone makes a habit of creating a new account simply for the sake of their kyu suggestion comfort... by that logic, this site does not realistically operate by this fairly stupid system that you have suggested because it's very easy to select your kyu and language and just start coding. Thousands of challenges at your level await you, at your very fingertips. Best of luck!

It's already my second account, I did one 6kyu on my previous one and I ranked up (I thought you have to do harder kata to rank up but now I know that you can just do a lot of easier ones). And as I said, what you're proposing is not comfortable for me. I prefer discomfort once in a few weeks than every time I complete kata.

Really, you can do it however you wish. If you are learning, that's all that matters, and this site offers a great deal that can help you develop you skills.

And why can't you pick a kata manually which you think would be best for you?

If you know any websites simmiliar to CW without such stupid system please let me know.

Unfortunately, I am not aware of any system which would read user's mind with acceptable accurracy :(

I don't need it to read my mind, I need it to give me harder tasks when I want to work on harder tasks, right now I need repetitive tasks of 7kyu difficulty. I can already feel that it takes me less time to solve them than some time ago so I want to keep up the pace and just shoot 7's one by one.

I'm not neurotypical so miniscule stuff like that tends to have a lot of meaning for me, that's why I prefer to create another account than to deal with manually picking katas.

Just click on katas. Then, onthe left hand side, there is difficulty. Click 7kyu in your case, and there will be thousands of 7kyu katas for you to practice.

Did you try to set your trainer to "Practice and repeat" mode, instead of "Rank up"?

@Hunahpu2

Is this some kind of error, tha fact that I ranked up without wanitng to?

No, it's not an error. You rank up once you gain enough internal score (not honor which is the number shown at top right). I believe you can do some 6 kyu if you try, but you're free to keep doing 7 kyu.

Is there any way to de-rank me? I don't want to have to create another account just so I can train comfortably.

No, but I'll consider adding a new training mode that suggests kata in a specific rank.

(The code for kata suggestion is super complicated and I haven't touched it since I inherited the project so it might take some time.)

One thing trainer suggestions are related to is recently trained language: you are suggested kata which are available in this language, and kata of suggested rank is somehow relative to your rank for this language. Another thing is probably "training mode" selected in "your next challenge" area: "rank up", "Practive and Repeat", and a couple of others. Exact formulas are not well known, and actually not many people find trainer suggestions useful. With a simple search with filters which suit you, you will probably find some nice kata easier.

Thank you!

8 kyu is already the lowest rank, very beginner. If you solve some tasks you will advance to 7 kyu, then 6 kyu, and so on. If tasks suggested by site suggestions are too difficult for you, you can use kata search page and use filters to select other, easier tasks for you.

From the wiki : https://github.com/Codewars/codewars.com/wiki/Honor-&-Ranks

More info here Honor-&-Ranks

The previous user updated his message with same link, so mine became irrelevant, but I can’t delete it.

okay thanks a lot!:)

can't you just make the repository private ?

I think when this user posted this Github didnt allow that for free yet. Its a recent change to do it free.

Maybe it's an easter egg because there are no codewarriors having reached that score yet ;-)

I have analyzed the score requirements and it seems to roughly follow a 11.7 * exp(n) law. So 3-dan should require approximately 260,000 score. There are only two 2-dan codewarriors currently and they're far from that treshold, with 120,000 and 160,000 respectively.

Kyu/Dan rank is not calculated from honor points. Kyu rank is calculated from internal score earned only by solving kata. Highest technically possible rank is 8 dan, but there's simply not enouh kata to reach it at the moment. Some details on dan ranks can be found on CW github forum.

From the wiki : https://github.com/Codewars/codewars.com/wiki/Honor-&-Ranks

Short answer, no.

As the wiki says, each 8 kyu gives 2 internal points towards your rank. At the time of my reply, there are about 470 8 kyus on the site. That means that doing all the 8 kyus will give you about 940 points.

This is far from enough; you can only reach 4 kyu (643 needed). 3 kyu needs 1829 points.

The Highest Trained stat is related to the language you have the highest rank with, not to the highest ranked kata you solved.

I'd also like to know the answer to this. I receive 8 honor for katas of 5 kyu and 6 kyu.

21 is the internal points you get for rank progress. You get 8 honor for solving yellow katas (5 and 6). The points displayed is honor.

149 is the internal points you get for rank progress. You get 32 honor for solving blue katas (3 and 4 kyu). The points displayed is honor.

Infinite; you can at most unlock solutions of katas one rank above you (or lower rank)

Hey, I was just reading about the ranking system here: https://airtable.com/embed/shrDt7USqZ7GStRb0/tbly10FthXIRqbd7L/viwJf0lpHrvPCKNfb?blocks=hide (I followed the "Ranking and Honor" link above).

Under Beta Kata Completed, it says: "Once the kata is ranked you will also earn honor associated with that rank."

Also, according to this chart, you receive 2 honor for completing a kata in beta and 1 honor for assessing and ranking a kata in beta.

Resolved - the docs recently specified clearly that betas give 2 additional honor, recent update. So a beta gives 4 honor in solving and 2 honor in feedback. (rank assessment and satisfaction rating)

AFAIK there is no clan page, and your clan has only one member right now, when there is more than one or if you follow and are followed by someone (you become ally with that person) you can see a ranking in the homepage, it's one of the first blocks, called Allies.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks a lot!

You just need to edit your profile and write down the name of the clan you wish to join.

The first is the number of Katas you have completed, the second is the Honor you earned for solving these Katas. HTH

Makes sense, but I bet I have completed more than 13 katas

Thanks.

You've solved 14 katas until now: https://www.codewars.com/users/shieldme/completed The stats refresh periodiocally (right now it says you've solved 13, next refresh should show 14 if you don't solve any more until then).

Thanks everyone

Me too, anyone knows where I can compare myself in a leaderboard of sorts?

I think there is no way to get rid of your earned honor. Don't mind about it. You are on the right track, when you are interested in your real progress and not in only your rank. At least it is a good prerequisite to really become better by practicing. A lot of desperate coders are searching for solutions on the internet resulting in nearly copied codes. If you try to learn from it, i think it is ok.

We've increased the minimum honor points required to be in the leaderboard. So the number of users below your position has decreased by a lot. The honor percentile describes your position within the leaderboard.

We're still experimenting with the numbers so this might change again in the future.

I'm curious what the rationale is behind this change. Although I mostly compete for the sake of practice and intrinsic fun, I have noticed that the recent change often results in my leaderboard position increasing (that is, I move further away from the top spot) with each additional kata I complete. That is quite odd behavior, to say nothing of its effect on motivation.

To give you better perspective, I earned 80 additional honor since the time of the recalibration (i.e., over the past half-day or so), and in that same time, my leaderboard position has steadily increased (moved away from the top) by more than 350 spots.

@JasonMRoos That is very strange. My leaderboard position goes closer to the top. For example, my leaderboard position recently went from about #302 to #299. I don't know what is going on in your case.

The rationale behind the change was that we had a huge number of mostly inactive users in the leaderboard. Also, I had to rebuild the leaderboard after replacing the database service provider and thought it was a good time to experiment and significantly reduce the load.

Like I wrote above, I'm still experimenting with the numbers. I'll probably change it back to what we had soon. This doesn't affect anything except for the leaderboard percentile shown on profile. And it's obvious now, but I didn't really think how extreme the change is for some users with lower position.

results in my leaderboard position increasing

The change doesn't affect the position (unless you're now out of the leaderboard). Maybe rebuilding the leaderboard corrected some data issue or included some of the old users that was left out for some reason.

@Steffan153

For example, my leaderboard position recently went from about #302 to #299. I don't know what is going on.

I don't see anything strange in your case. Currently the leaderborad looks like:

• #299 8732
• #300 8703
• #301 8699
• #302 8688

It's very likely that you just gained enough honor to move up. You can easily get 50 points over night, like multiple kata you've solved in the past got out of beta or your translations were approved.

Oh, the "I don't know what is going on" was replying to the other person. Sorry for the confusion.

mostly inactive users in the leaderboard

The person at position #13 in the leaderboard is inactive 🤦

I meant those that signed up, solved few kata and never came back. Not just currently inactive, but never really active.

Many of the currently inactive users near the top are there because they contributed to make Codewars what it is today by creating kata during early days. How the current default leaderboard is implemented is debatable, but I'm not going to discuss that here.

Your rank is based on how many katas you complete and which rank those katas were, nothing else.

At 2 kyu you will recieve 20% progression towards 1 kyu by completing a 1 kyu kata. For a 2 kyu kata you will get 10%. For lower ranked ones you will recieve progressively less progress.

Just complete some 1&2 kyu katas and you will be 1kyu in no time :)