Like guys, people who get A's on the test aren't always the best at the subject. There are many cases that B students actually "teaching" the A students. Even in real life, there is no way to measure a true skill, or whatever it might be called.
If the ranking has very close relationship with the real rank, It is a good rank.
People talking about mods here doesnt seem to make sense for me, because, there might be slight problem about "ah!! why he is above me!!" or something like that, but the important thing is, current ranking already has preety much close relationship between rank and skill.
As we all know, we regard cookiezi is #1 player or osu. (well, not to mension about White Wolf's growing skills here, even with that, Cookiezi is still at least #2 at the moment). but the past(acutally, current overall) rank calls cookiezi #8 just because he didn't play osu! recently.
Also, If you think FL is easier then DT or the reverse, just farm your score that way. with higher rank, you will get higher ???'s for sure.
IF you regard FL a much easier mode to DT, why don't you farm your score that way?
I've never seen cookiezi playing FL, (on shoushitsu or symponic love, that is another case) while BinJip's most #1's are with FL.
Those two are just different; although we call cookiezi as the best player and he usually plays DT or HDHR, maybe he can't actually FL, (or he doesnt need it because he can easily DT or HDHR, OR HDDR or whatever without FL)and if someone puts extra effort on specific songs and get higher scores with FL, that is one thing too. and if someone gets many Insane #1~#6's with FL, that means he actually has skill about FL, (like, we would need +200 PC to FL it, but maybe he can do it in like 50P) and that should be included in the ranking too.
So I'm kind of person who saids "mods with same score multiplyer is basically the same".
Even Myself getting into #40, I use different mods. sometimes HRDT, sometimes only hidden, sometimes HDDT, sometimes HDHR..
well, if you think certain mode is easier to play, then farm the score that way.