Possible Duplicate: User Rank -or- User Percentile Rating
Entirely editing my answer to try and make sense here ...
Wikipedia page on Standard Deviations.  I suggest that we
display a value that represents the number of standard
deviations from the norm that a user is.  The Y axis is the % of
users with that reputation score, the X axis plots scores from 0
to n. You could then determine where the user is in terms of
rarity with regards to the entire user-base, rather than looking
at a reputation score that a large volume of users could be in.
So I could show up as 101 rep, and we can identify just how rare
(or common) that range is in the deviations of users on SO meta
(about 8,750/21,000 = 41.7% have a lower reputation than me),
where as someone at 0 would be  alt text  This is similar to how
people are ranked as "genius" with IQ scores, as they are in the
top 2% of IQ scores.  We could give users titles for being at
specific deviations.  share|improve this question That's funny,
I don't ever seem to recal