Shredders & Rider Rating
How the Shredders rankings and your Hermes World Rank (HWR) rider rating work.
The Shredders page
Shredders is where riders are ranked against each other. It opens on the Hermes World Ranking (HWR), and it also has simple leaderboards for trails created, trails raced and rides recorded.
On the website
Click Shredders in the top menu, or go straight to Shredders. Anyone can view it, signed in or not. The tabs along the top are:
| Tab | What it ranks |
|---|---|
| Overall | The Hermes World Ranking: every ranked rider, best rating first. |
| Trails Created | Riders with the most trails created. |
| Unique Trails | Riders who have raced the most different trails. |
| Trail Attempts | Riders with the most trail attempts in total. |
| Rides | Riders with the most rides recorded. |
| Search | Look up any rider by name, handle or username. |
On the Overall tab, each row shows the rider's Rank, Rating, Trails (how many trails count toward their rating), Avg trail rank and 7d move (how many places they've climbed or dropped in the last week). Click Details to see how that rider's rating is built.
In the app
- Open the side menu.
- Under Community, tap Shredder Directory.
- It opens on Overall, which is the HWR list. Swipe the chips along the top to switch to Trails Created, Unique Trails, Trail Attempts or Rides, or tap the search icon to find a rider.
Each HWR row shows the rider's world rank, their rating and, when there's been a change, an up or down arrow with the number of places they've moved. Tap a row to open that rider's Ranking breakdown.
What HWR is
The Hermes World Ranking puts every rider on the platform in one ranking, whatever trails they ride. It's inspired by the Official World Golf Ranking. You get two numbers:
- Rating sums up how well you've placed on the trails you race. Higher is better.
- World rank is your position when every ranked rider is sorted by rating. #1 is the top rider in the world.
Ratings are recalculated once a night, so a new personal best shows up in your rating the next day, not straight away. Riders with the same rating share a rank. For example, if two riders are tied at #5, the next rider is #7.
How your rating is earned
Your rating comes from your results on trail leaderboards. Here's what counts:
- Only your personal best on each trail counts. Riding the same trail over and over doesn't help unless you go faster.
- Your place on that trail matters most. A win is worth far more than second, and second is worth far more than tenth. You need to be in a trail's top 100 for it to count at all.
- Some trails are worth more than others. A trail that lots of riders have raced, especially highly ranked riders, is a tough test and is worth a lot. A trail only a handful of people have ridden is worth very little, even if those few riders are fast. Winning a quiet trail won't put you at the top of the world.
- Recent results count most. A personal best counts in full for a year after the day you rode it. Over the following year it slowly fades, and after two years it stops counting.
Hidden rides and hidden trail attempts never count, because they don't appear on trail leaderboards.
How many trails count
Your points from each trail are added up and then shared across the trails you've raced. Two rules shape this:
- Your best 50 trails count. If you've raced more than 50, only your 50 strongest results feed your rating. The rest are listed as "not counted" on your breakdown.
- Fewer than 20 trails waters your rating down. Your points are always shared out as if you had raced at least 20 trails. So one great result on its own can't carry a high rating, and racing more trails helps until you reach 20.
In short: a full set of strong results on well-raced trails beats a single big win.
Provisional, ranked and unrated
| You'll see | What it means |
|---|---|
| A rank such as #42 | You're ranked. You have at least 3 trails that count, so you get a world rank and appear on the Overall list. |
| Provisional | You have a rating, but fewer than 3 trails that count. There isn't enough data to compare you fairly yet, so you don't have a world rank and aren't on the Overall list. |
| A dash (—) or Unrated | None of your trails count right now. You might not have any top-100 personal bests from the last two years yet. |
To go from Provisional to ranked, get personal bests on more trails. Each one needs to be in that trail's top 100 and ridden within the last two years.
What moves your rating
Your rating can change even on days you don't ride:
- You set a faster time and move up a trail's leaderboard. Your rating goes up.
- Someone beats your time and pushes you down a place. Your rating goes down.
- You race a new trail. It adds points, and while you're under 20 trails it also stops your rating being watered down so much.
- Your results get older. After a year, each personal best slowly loses value.
- A trail gets busier. When more riders, or higher-ranked riders, race a trail you've done well on, that trail becomes worth more, and so does your result there.
On the Overall list, the 7d move column on the website, or the arrow in the app, shows how many places a rider has moved over the last week.
The rating breakdown
The breakdown shows exactly where a rider's rating comes from. You can open it for any rider:
- On the website, click Details on the Shredders Overall tab, or click the HWR Rank tile on a rider's profile.
- In the app, tap a rider on the Overall list, or tap the HWR RANK tile on any profile. The screen is called Ranking breakdown.
At the top you'll see the rider's world rank (or Provisional), their rating and their average trail rank. The app also shows their movement, points, divisor and number of counted trails, plus a Ranked, Provisional or Unrated tag.
Under Contributing trails, each trail counting toward the rating is listed with:
- Rank: the rider's place on that trail.
- PR age: how many days ago they set that personal best.
- Strength: how much the trail is worth. Busier, more competitive trails score higher.
- Decay: how much of the result still counts. It's 100% for the first year, then falls.
- Points: what that trail adds to the rating.
Below the list, the total points are divided by the divisor to give the rating. The divisor is the number of counted trails, but never less than 20 or more than 50. If a rider has more than 50 trails, the extra ones sit in a collapsed "not counted" list.
Where your rank shows
- Ranked riders get a small rank badge next to their name on rider cards around the website and the app, including on leaderboards. The top 3 are gold, silver and bronze, and the rest of the top 10 and top 100 have their own colors.
- Your profile has an HWR Rank tile (called HWR RANK in the app). It shows your rank, Provisional, or a dash. Tap or click it to open your breakdown.
- Provisional and unrated riders don't get a rank badge.