Users reported inconsistencies in how ranks are displayed on the Discourse Gamification leaderboard when scores are tied. simon_tomes and Ed_S noted that users with identical scores were shown with different ranks — for example, scores of 100, 90, 90, 70 should ideally rank as 1st, equal 2nd, equal 2nd, 4th — but instead were ranked sequentially (e.g., 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th). Ed_S also observed a discrepancy between the displayed rank (30) and actual position (32) due to unaccounted ties. Moin later confirmed that the issue was resolved: users with the same number of Contributions (formerly “Cheers”) are now ranked equally. selase clarified that the behavior is configurable via the “score ranking strategy” setting, which offers three options: dense_rank (default, assigns same rank to ties, next rank increments by 1), rank (same rank for ties, next rank skips tied positions), and row_number (assigns unique ranks even for ties). Moin confirmed the fix was implemented via a recent commit and marked the issue as completed.
Another community member also highlighted that there are many users with similar scores and they are still ranked in order.
How about displaying the same rank number when the score is the same? So for the above example, those users would all be ranked at 48.
(note for context we’ve renamed “Cheers” to “Contributions”)
I visited the leaderboard here on meta and it said in the blue box that my rank is 30. But in fact it is 32. There are two cases of ties in scores higher than mine and I speculate that’s the cause.
Those people are shown in the ranking at different ranks which is a second bug.
If the scores were 100, 90, 90, 70 then the corresponding people should conventionally be ranked 1st, equal 2nd, equal 2nd, 4th.
(First time I’ve even looked at the board, honest!)
I’ve slipped your post over to here @Ed_S to keep the reports grouped together. 
Thanks - there are I think two bugs.
Yes, this behaviour is configurable via the score ranking strategy setting:
dense_rank (default) - Produces the tie behaviour shown in your screenshotrank - Tied rows get the same rank, next rank is incremented by number of tied rowsrow_number - Produces the tie behaviour shown in the original postIndeed! Seems like the setting was added by you shortly after the last post here in PERF: Precompute leaderboards using materialized views (#112) · discourse/discourse-gamification@2eadff6 · GitHub.
So I guess this is completed and can be closed.