So, attached is the V and Font Scales for bouldering (free climbing on small rock formations or artificial rock walls; no gear/ropes). The Font Scale is higher resolution than the V.
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I want to just focus on 6b through 8c+ (forget 9a and 6a+ or lower where things get a little tricky for reasons I won't get into for sake of brevity and staying away from too much "inside baseball"). That spread is 16 grades. Now take your average Pro or Elite climber (which would be a D&D combatant otherwise, they would have been selected out of the discipline via Darwinism). Their ability to look at (I didn't say interact with) a boulder problem within this spread of 16 grades and independently land on the same number (or within one grade) as other Pro/Elite climbers is uncanny.
Seems apposite.
That was freaking interesting, thank you.
Do you have a favorite paper/site that talks about the inter-rater reliability of the grading? I'm also curious if the height of climber matters.
As an aside, reddit was about as all over on discussing climbing rating systems as it was on chainsaw safety (iirc).
. (I am not endorsing reddit, but it's kind of like rubber necking a crash and I couldn't help myself).
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