The Vertical-Life ranking game is based on all ascents ticked on this site since 2000, and all ascents ticked in the Vertical-Life app since Dec 2023. It was created by Jens Larssen and works with two simple assumptions: The grading scale is linear, and on-sighting a certain grade is about as hard as redpointing 3 grades harder. An 8a redpoint gets you 1000 points. For every (+) grade, the score increases by 50 points. The other modifiers are onsight (+147), flash (+53), toprope (-50), second go (+2), Trad (+33) and FA (+33).