A New Uniskills Coefficient

Wow!
Cool idea, but the more simple (black and white) systems are "better" in
that they leave out subjective guesswork based on the mood or perception
of the individual rider.

Heck, someone with low self-esteem, might give themselves a 4 (and
compare themselves to the best riders on the planet). However, a
braggart may give themselves straight nines.

The fundamental purpose of having levels and a NKS rating is so that you
can communicate your skill level in a simple number (as well as track
riding improvement).

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i really like this new system!
it's like the "NKS" except you multiply your scale of ten answer by the
level rather than counting every skill as a "one." very clever!
i'm a 227 :-D
after about 3 months of riding

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One other thing I just thought of is that consistency is a big issue. I
used to hop all of the time - and I felt good about my skill there.
Then, I got repeated injuries and became afraid of big hops - and pretty
much stopped riding/hopping.
When I started again, I had a solid 9" hop! 🙂

The great things about the simple methods is that it is pass or fail for
"that moment." While it can't illustrate the fact that certain skills
(like idling) have weakened from lack of use - it can show that the
skill is "accessible."

I could try all day and never get "backwards 1 foot in a figure 8" - but
good day or bad, night or day, I can hit that 9" hop. :p

I'm thinking *that* is the type of thing that "people want to know" and
keep track of and communicate.

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This is a cool system!

except that it would take a lot of time, it would be neat to actually
try doing the skills 10 times to see how many times you got it every
week or so, and keep a chart of your progress.

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The main problem (as other pointed out) is it would take forever to
determine one's level. It's all very well for a level three-ish rider,
but I have done 93 out of the 97 skills at least once each, so it would
take me hours to figure out my consistency on every single one. Here's
where the skill levels are still a better method of assessing your
freestyle skill, because in order to pass, you really have to be very
consistent on all but one or two skills.

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It's a cool idea. I use probabilistic processing (involving curve
fitting) to evaluate my progress in hill-climbing ability.

Your webpage doesn't work properly though. When I loaded it the first
time there were no score boxes. The second time they were there. I
discovered that a '10' was not accepted from the keyboard, the zero
would overwrite the one, at least that's what I saw. When the windows
began scrolling because I reached the bottom of the screen, the
scoring boxes were displaced vertically by amounts different from the
question. All was mixed up so that it was totally unclear what
question they belonged to. I couldn't continue.

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i like the idea
it is basicly mine just more accurate (which is good and bad)

the only bad thing is when you learn a new skill, you go back and go
through it all again but you might rate any of the skills a bit
different and this might make the final rating end up being smaller then
you starting rating
maybe you could have some kind of a saveing feature ?

saam out 😄

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I didn't vite because there wasn't an option that really suited my
opinion. I think that as long as you're honest with yourself, then it
will give a much better representation of your skill than the original.
I really like how you don't have to complete a whole level before going
on to the next. I think though that it's even more likely that people
will lie to themselves, even subconsciously, and give themselves a
better score than they really deserve.

I think it's definitely a big improvement on the original method, but I
personally really dislike the whole concept of having a rating system to
be able to prove to people how good you are. Now a system that rates
how much a person enjoys unicycling - there's an idea! 🙂

Good system though.

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i quite liked it! but i don't think its a good system to be used because
its so subjective, along with the other points raised. however i liked
to see my higher level skills recognized ( such as gliding- which
otherwise would not be because i probably will never reach a high enough
level), i came out with 361

iain

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huum 26...

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I got a 373. I am going to have to actually test myself on this again,
because some of the things that I was fairly proficient at, I rarely do.
So I may have been a little hopeful in my scoring.

The thing I don't like about the test is it shows me how little I really
can do.😄

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munipsycho said:

6. DROP-DOWN CONTROL NOT WORKING.
-My response. The drop-down control issue is what we in IT call a
training issue.-
To get a 10, press 1 twice.

Do you call that a training issue? : : confused : :
But, it works indeed like you say. Every time if you enter two digits
sequentially, the second overwrites the first, except if the second
digit is a 1 (unless the first digit is a 0), then it is interpreted
as 10. Very strange. Why not interpret 1 followed by 0 as 10?

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Klaas Bil said:

*Do you call that a training issue? : : confused : :
But, it works indeed like you say. Every time if you enter two digits
sequentially, the second overwrites the first, except if the second
digit is a 1 (unless the first digit is a 0), then it is interpreted
as 10. Very strange. Why not interpret 1 followed by 0 as 10?*

Well, it's not really anything to do with my page, but with your
browser. That's just how the drop-down control works on a web page.

Here's an alternative: http://munipsycho.com/uniskills_2.jsp

It uses radio buttons instead. It is graphically *very busy*, and mouse
intensive, but probably a little faster for some people.

Still, the *much more interesting question* is whether this approach, or
the OFFICIAL approach, or the NKS approach, really measure how good a
rider one is. It may measure how consistent one is at doing tricks or
it may indeed measure fundamental skills. (Or, rather, provide a proxy
measure of those things.)

But I hope not. Really I do.

Because my score is 141.

And I was sure I'd score at least a 150.

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Klaas Bil said:

*Do you call that a training issue? : : confused : :
But, it works indeed like you say. Every time if you enter two digits
sequentially, the second overwrites the first, except if the second
digit is a 1 (unless the first digit is a 0), then it is interpreted
as 10. Very strange. Why not interpret 1 followed by 0 as 10?*

Well, it's not really anything to do with my page, but with your
browser. That's just how the drop-down control works on a web page.

Here's an alternative: http://munipsycho.com/uniskills_2.jsp

It uses radio buttons instead. It is graphically *very busy*, and mouse
intensive, but probably a little faster for some people.

Still, the *much more interesting question* is whether this approach, or
the OFFICIAL approach, or the NKS approach, really measure how good a
rider one is. It may measure how consistent one is at doing tricks or
it may indeed measure fundamental skills. (Or, rather, provide a proxy
measure of those things.)

But I hope not. Really I do.

Because my score is 141.

And I was sure I'd score at least a 150.

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Klaas Bil said:

*Do you call that a training issue? : : confused : :
But, it works indeed like you say. Every time if you enter two digits
sequentially, the second overwrites the first, except if the second
digit is a 1 (unless the first digit is a 0), then it is interpreted
as 10. Very strange. Why not interpret 1 followed by 0 as 10?*

Well, it's not really anything to do with my page, but with your
browser. That's just how the drop-down control works on a web page.

Here's an alternative: http://munipsycho.com/uniskills_2.jsp

It uses radio buttons instead. It is graphically *very busy*, and mouse
intensive, but probably a little faster for some people.

Still, the *much more interesting question* is whether this approach, or
the OFFICIAL approach, or the NKS approach, really measure how good a
rider one is. It may measure how consistent one is at doing tricks or
it may indeed measure fundamental skills. (Or, rather, provide a proxy
measure of those things.)

But I hope not. Really I do.

Because my score is 141.

And I was sure I'd score at least a 150.

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Klaas Bil said:

*Do you call that a training issue? : : confused : :
But, it works indeed like you say. Every time if you enter two digits
sequentially, the second overwrites the first, except if the second
digit is a 1 (unless the first digit is a 0), then it is interpreted
as 10. Very strange. Why not interpret 1 followed by 0 as 10?*

Well, it's not really anything to do with my page, but with your
browser. That's just how the drop-down control works on a web page.

Here's an alternative: http://munipsycho.com/uniskills_2.jsp

It uses radio buttons instead. It is graphically *very busy*, and mouse
intensive, but probably a little faster for some people.

Still, the *much more interesting question* is whether this approach, or
the OFFICIAL approach, or the NKS approach, really measure how good a
rider one is. It may measure how consistent one is at doing tricks or
it may indeed measure fundamental skills. (Or, rather, provide a proxy
measure of those things.)

But I hope not. Really I do.

Because my score is 141.

And I was sure I'd score at least a 150.

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munipsycho said:

*
Because my score is 141.

And I was sure I'd score at least a 150. *

After riding with you today, I am sure you are at least a 150.😉 I
think you may just be suffering from test anxiety.

On the other hand iy makes me think rather thangoing from memory of past
attempts, that I need to actually go through the skills and see what my
real score is. I think it may be a little optimistic.:o I'll give it
a shot Monday.

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bugman said:

*After riding with you today, I am sure you are at least a 150.😉 I
think you may just be suffering from test anxiety.

On the other hand iy makes me think rather thangoing from memory of
past attempts, that I need to actually go through the skills and see
what my real score is. I think it may be a little optimistic.:o
I'll give it a shot Monday. *

Your skills are excellent! Here's the proof. (And there's more proof
here: http://tinyurl.com/6xhyn)

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Who is that masked man?😕

Seriously, you and Paul left me behind on every uphill. You guys were
riding great. Both your skills and your endurance. The good thing is
though, I can improve a lot closing the gap. You guys will have a hard
time improving by leaps and bounds. Well I can hope anyway.

Had a great time, and I can't wait until we can get together again. I'm
sure Moab was fun, but for the price you can't beat the Granite of Stone
Mountain.

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