I think it depends on how you measure top 10% in a video game (especially the MMORPGs Asmongold plays), being a top 10% player by stats is a function of play ti

I think it depends on how you measure top 10% in a video game (especially the MMORPGs Asmongold plays), being a top 10% player by stats is a function of play time and 'grind'. People actively looking at top 10% players can have more game knowledge and build efficiency than people who just grind bigger numbers. Being an "effective" software engineer also depends on your definition of effective. Mark Zuckerberg was clearly an effective software engineer, but was he in the top 5% of engineers? People judging their abilities by adjacent (and loosely correlated) metrics is a road to unhappiness. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to become a good measure"