OK - fair enough!
Currently the Top Contributors leaderboard is fairly static, and as a new user, you stand little chance of getting on the userboard - it’s dominated by users that have been on the site for a long time!
If you were able to configure it to show top contributors in the last week, or top contributors in the last month, this would give a much better view of who the top contributors actually are at “the moment” rather than just cumulatively since the discourse instance was installed.