whats your NKS rating?

[john_childs]

Re: Re: whats your NKS rating?

Originally posted by Klaas Bil
[B]
Notice that ‘69/603’ isn’t one of them. I think that people generally assume that if you have done a skill, that’s good enough to check it. I think that that is what most people find attractive in the NKS. In other words, the UO version is fine. The O version, if you abide to ALL official rules, is just the old skills system in disguise. If you would respect only SOME rules, you must be more specific. But I don’t think we need the O version at all.

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict

people who unicycle are shyly exhibitionistic - GILD [/B]

I’ve been basing my score on being able to do a skill well enough that I could reliably pass the official level. That means that I have to be able to do the skill properly and with the transitions and be able to do it reliably enough that wouldn’t mess it up during a level test. That means that I have to be able to do the skill correctly and cleanly the vast majority of the time (say 90% or better).

I’ve done the backwards seat out back for 10 meters successfully a couple of times. But I still mess it up way way more times than I get it right. I don’t consider it to be a skill that I could count on the NKS system and it’s not a skill that I have counted even though I have successfully done the skill.

Oh, I also made a slight update to my spreadsheet. It now totals the number of skills. There’s 97 skills in the list. The download is here: nks_unicycle_skills_rating.zip

[saam]

Re: Re: whats your NKS rating?

Originally posted by Klaas Bil
[B]On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:19:42 -0600, “saam” wrote:

>> well, maybe there could be two catagories
>>
>> 1. your rating abiding to the official rules (you would write your
>> rating with an O after it)
>> 2. is you rating not abiding to the official rules (you write you
>> rating with an UO after it)
>>
>> my ratings are:
>> 76/603 UO
>> 69/603 O

Number 1 doesn’t work out right. The official rules that you are
referring to, say that you can only have one retry per set of skills
for a particular level. That implies that you have to demonstrate that
you qualify for all the skills in one level, or you fail all of them.
Therefore, in the “official rules” version of the NKS, there would be
only ten possibilities, i.e.:

level total points
1 3
2 17
3 41
4 77
5 132
6 210
7 287
8 367
9 493
10 603

Notice that ‘69/603’ isn’t one of them. I think that people generally
assume that if you have done a skill, that’s good enough to check it.
I think that that is what most people find attractive in the NKS. In
other words, the UO version is fine. The O version, if you abide to
ALL official rules, is just the old skills system in disguise. If you
would respect only SOME rules, you must be more specific. But I don’t
think we need the O version at all.

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict

people who unicycle are shyly exhibitionistic - GILD [/B]

sorry for the miss under standing i ment abiding to the part of the rules that reads:
"All skills start and end with the rider riding forward, seated with both feet on the pedals. All mounts end with the rider riding forward with both feet on the pedals. "
not the failing part, OK

my new ratings are 84/603 UO, 79/603 O

[leo]

besides the levels page of unicyclist.org I’ve also wrote a PHP script for anyone who want to add it to her/his website. Get the code here.

[halfbike]

About a million for me I think… Yeah, thats right, a million.

[unicycleboy]

483

Trev

[fcwegnm0b]

I’m 304 by Leo’s site… that could probably be higher, but I stopped caring about levels a few months ago (I havn’t been riding quite a year yet).

Dave

[saskatchewanian]

wow, a gem from the past, Thanks to petad for bringing this up: link

This could be really nice to supplement the level system. You could say you are a Level X with Y points.

This could be good for people who have a low level because they never bothered to learn a particular trick but can do a wide variety of tricks.

[tabler1010]

28 im no very good

[petad]

I’m somewhere around 316, I’ll have to go out and see when I ride tomorrow. I haven’t really tried riding seat on side.

[scott_ttocs]

It looks like I score “1”, but I have only been trying for a week.

[saam]

@saam

in the NKS (new kewl system) my rating is 75

what is your NKS rating?

Wow, blast from the past

1303 days later i’m at about 160

[GILD]

768

[Smilymarco]

Still the same haha as before (282)

[captainconcarne]

on a good day, 101.
It seems like all the high skills are for freestyle performance, not like trials or street, eg. pirouettes, and all sorts of variations on figure 8s