What a good score actually looks like

How to read this, and what it is not

These are first attempts. Each player counts once, on the first time they played that game — before any practice. A distribution over every session would describe our most dedicated regulars rather than a person sitting down cold, and one player here has played a single game seventy times.

This is not a candidate population. These are people who chose to practise for an assessment, which is already a group that differs from everyone who sits one. No employer publishes its cut scores, and nothing here is one — see how we score for what a percentile here does and does not mean.

A zero is a real result. On a memory game it means the first sequence was missed; the bottom decile therefore mixes genuinely low scores with attempts somebody abandoned after one round. We leave them in, because dropping the worst results would quietly make every median look better.

Rows under 20 players say so rather than printing a median that one more person would move, and a practice figure needs 10 players before it appears at all.