Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27808032-20160627033826/@comment-26249703-20160704140022

Oh I see. I thought you meant top XX people, you meant top XX%. It's to do with several factors (which I'm sure have been explained in length elsewhere, if not here). Global leaderboard only features users that have completed all 4 TTs. Therefore there will most likely be a lot less people overall than per TT. For example, there are currently around 19,760 people overall, but around 66,800 people have set a time for the second TT. The people above you will most likely have set a time everywhere, whereas the people below may not care as much. If you are 10,000th in TT2 (and the rest) you will most likely be 10,000th overall.

Whereas 10,000th in a specific TT like TT2 would put you in the top 20% (14.9%), it would only put you in the top 60% overall (50.6%). Does that make sense? Afterwards, there's plenty of other factors like people just behind you in one TT can be much faster than you in another, meaning there's actually much faster in the overall leaderboard. Overall Group A has the added difficulty that it doesn't reward the Top 1%, but actually the Top 0.1% (it says top 0.1% on the main menu for the people in that elite), whereas all the other groups have the same percentage by TT and overall.