What determines drift skill 1-10?

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With all the recruiting going on, a lot of people are asked to rate their drifting skill on a 1-10 basis. I'm a bit perplexed as to what to this would be judged by. Either there is a standard you set yourself to, you judge by what other do, or you judge based on a confidense level.

I judged myself along the lines of 1 being able to drift around a corner that has been well practiced, maybe not consistently and perhaps overshooting every once in a while. 10 being able to nail any turn almost on whim. I figure if I can drift around the cape circle I'll maybe say I'm a 10 (very far from this.)

What does everyone else judge by?
 
I dont understand why people would think so much of a rating, I think your good if you can drift any car that has the potential to, I go around the majority of my time drifting a Toyota Sports 800, its got two cylinders, and stock it has some 40 hp, I've always been drifting it and even now when it's tuned its barely pushing 99hp. I can go from that to drifting my toyota mr2 which has 240 hp, to a stock sileighty, to a stock ae86. I'm able to jump to high horsepower cars too and still drift. Most people just go off and get a million horsepower car and start drifting that, then when they try a near stock car they can't and call it underpowered.
 
If you think that your a noob, then challenge yourself. From starting 300 go around to 200 then on to stock.
 
i agree with the lesser HP comments, anyone can take a 500HP car and burn the tires in a controlled oversteer
 
I think theyre referring to your speed, angle, lines you take, consistency and ability under pressure. Thats about all that I can think of, in my opinion drift skill shouldnt have much to do with a team. Enjoying each others virtual company, now thats another story.
 
I believe the 10 point rating system comes from the d1 gp rating system, where the judges rate each competitor with a max of 10 points. Usually 10 means a perfect line, angle and speed. 9 and 8 mean nearly perfect, but a little bit off the line, or not that fast. 7 or 6 means either one big mistake, or a number of small mistakes... and so on... But it depends a lot on the judge(s) rating.
 
amartya
I believe the 10 point rating system comes from the d1 gp rating system, where the judges rate each competitor with a max of 10 points. Usually 10 means a perfect line, angle and speed. 9 and 8 mean nearly perfect, but a little bit off the line, or not that fast. 7 or 6 means either one big mistake, or a number of small mistakes... and so on... But it depends a lot on the judge(s) rating.
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The OP is talking about how and why people rate their drift skill on a scale of 1 to 10.
 
According to the drifting forums, drifting only in FR religiously = 10. drifting while using handbrake = 1. :dopey::dopey::dopey:
 
I don't know wat you guys are talk about,it's very easy to drift a stock car even for a beginner, when driving stock cars you don't have to worry about burning out in the middle of a drift if you gas it,the slower the car is the easier it is to maintain a a drift,now if you have a car with about 500hp then your going to have to balance the gas your giving the car because u give the car to much gas an you'll spinout,it is always easier to start off with a slow car then progressing in hp.
 
Duo64
According to the drifting forums, drifting only in FR religiously = 10. drifting while using handbrake = 1. :dopey::dopey::dopey:
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Then they're saying that all D1GP professionals are a bunch of 1's. Even pro's use handbrake to precisely control their car while twinning.
 
DoriPanda
Then they're saying that all D1GP professionals are a bunch of 1's. Even pro's use handbrake to precisely control their car while twinning.
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true !

@ M/power : i agree on the fact that it can be hard to control an HP monster but it is as hard to get it with a stock/low power car. imo, you obviously need skills and techniques a beginner can not have. At least, a beginner can easily put gas and get wheel spin all the way to clear a corner in an 5OOhp car.

to get back on topic, i think that drift skill 1 is for making the car slide just enough to make it face the exit of a 90° turn and 10 is for D1 virtual drivers.

i could had this for paddle players : no matter how much speed, angle, line, smoke and whatever you get, if your front wheels doesn't look like you're playin' with a wheel, you still need the bigger work.
 
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Being versatile with the way you're able to drift. I have a 350HP GNX that I drift with and it has stock gear ratios. The 3rd gear is tall and 2nd is short (for long sweepers), yet, I can drift that around, then hop in my 550HP supra and ball out in it.
 
All good responses. Though I'd have to say I'm a bit astray with a 1 being yanking the e-brake into a slide to get around a 90% corner. I suppose that would make sense though.

I agree, versatility is definitely required. I had a lot of fun tuning my Celica XX between hard to initiate but stable to the easiest car I have to drift, all with 221hp.
 
I've been practicing this drifting stuff since the game came out and was a 1 then, absolutely utterly terrible. Not much progress has been made; however, I do have knowledge of what to do if I'm familiar with the track and can drift around curves decently on occasion but am still terrible. I grade myself as a 3/10 now compared to the 1/10 when I started.
 
i saw many people rating themselves lately and i was surprised to see some ratings going to 10
i was even surprised to see people telling they're almost unable to get a clean drift in one corner rating themselves 3

imo, this rating system can be a good tool but the 7 of someone is still the 3 of someone else so all this is pretty useless.

i had time to kill this morning so i went for this as a starting point, it ended being harder than i expected :nervous:

0 i can't get the car to slide with no e-brake and i get the worse snapback using it

1 i can get the car to slide a little and get to face the exit of the corner, no much angle then. i'm not using the whole width of the track.

2 i managed to give enough gas with the associated countersteer to have a little angle in a small hairpin

3 i can slide one corner, then go straight and slide another one, i'm learning how to make feints but still have trouble adjusting gas, braking and steering

4 i can use e-brake to initiate and then throttle control to get to the exit, i give the good steering to use more width of the track

5 i can now initiate a drift by different ways, maintain it and then link into another corner but not at will. i still do mistakes because my steering job can be improved

6 i'm getting more angle now but it takes a few tries. i'm now able to mix techniques and get variations in my steering speed

7 i use handbrake to correct mistakes, adjust angle and get some long-ass 60° entries

8 i can get lock to lock feints or links, doing full laps in autumn ring mini

9 i still make big mistakes but i have to go real crazy, if i keep it a bit low, i don't get out of the track.

10 i'm the boss: i can drift anything from 90 to 900 hp, i use more than the width of the track, get mad smoke and link any corners.
i can get a full lap in a single drift. i'm also your tsuiso nightmare.

since i would rate myself somewhere near 5 if i had to, i don't mean to have enough science to get this alone so if any of you wish to help 👍
 
That is a great job on the 1-10 list Geoff, props man!! That should help clear things up I think.
 
Perfect :-). That would put me somewhere around 7.5 then, I was thinking about 7 so very close to my thinking. The only thing I would say is not included is variety. I don't have any seriously powerful drift cars, it would be interesting getting behind the wheel of something with 500hp or more.

I think this list should be incorporated into the newbie thread, good bit of info as to what goals to be shooting for.
 
I guess, it also depends on the car, your are drifting.

In my case I can drift very well (in my opinion) with my Jay Leno Tank Car and Nissan Silvia S15, but quite badly with my Toyota Supra or Mercedes C63 AMG....
 
Sure, but all cars (not the Nissan) are all stock :D
The only tuned drifting cars I use are the Silvia, mit '90 RX7 and a Ford Mustang 5.0 V8
 
thanks to those who liked the list ;) even if it's not perfect

EmptySoul
I guess, it also depends on the car, your are drifting...
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Geoff
...10...i can drift anything from 90 to 900 hp...
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it's pretty obvious that if you can drift 2 or 3 cars, there's improvement needed.
on the other hand, a good driver can get almost anything, even stock, sideways.
 
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Geoff
i saw many people rating themselves lately and i was surprised to see some ratings going to 10
i was even surprised to see people telling they're almost unable to get a clean drift in one corner rating themselves 3

imo, this rating system can be a good tool but the 7 of someone is still the 3 of someone else so all this is pretty useless.

i had time to kill this morning so i went for this as a starting point, it ended being harder than i expected :nervous:

0 i can't get the car to slide with no e-brake and i get the worse snapback using it

1 i can get the car to slide a little and get to face the exit of the corner, no much angle then. i'm not using the whole width of the track.

2 i managed to give enough gas with the associated countersteer to have a little angle in a small hairpin

3 i can slide one corner, then go straight and slide another one, i'm learning how to make feints but still have trouble adjusting gas, braking and steering

4 i can use e-brake to initiate and then throttle control to get to the exit, i give the good steering to use more width of the track

5 i can now initiate a drift by different ways, maintain it and then link into another corner but not at will. i still do mistakes because my steering job can be improved

6 i'm getting more angle now but it takes a few tries. i'm now able to mix techniques and get variations in my steering speed

7 i use handbrake to correct mistakes, adjust angle and get some long-ass 60° entries

8 i can get lock to lock feints or links, doing full laps in autumn ring mini

9 i still make big mistakes but i have to go real crazy, if i keep it a bit low, i don't get out of the track.

10 i'm the boss: i can drift anything from 90 to 900 hp, i use more than the width of the track, get mad smoke and link any corners.
i can get a full lap in a single drift. i'm also your tsuiso nightmare.

since i would rate myself somewhere near 5 if i had to, i don't mean to have enough science to get this alone so if any of you wish to help 👍
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well id say im a 10 then..........:sly:
 
What if I can score 11,800 drift pts on Tsukuba section mode with a CIVIC, and "connect" more than one turn? Do I get a negative 5 just for using a FF?
 
Hamma808
well id say im a 10 then..........:sly:
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please show us :)

Borodori
...Do I get a negative 5 just for using a FF?
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since sliding a FF is fun: no :)
but to be honest, i don't know much about those drift points anyway.

as i said before, i don't pretend to have the full knowledge, i just made this list to try to help out a bit: it's based on what i see around and what i could do myself so i guess many people won't recognize themselves into it...
 
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Adavicro
I think theyre referring to your speed, angle, lines you take, consistency and ability under pressure. Thats about all that I can think of, in my opinion drift skill shouldnt have much to do with a team. Enjoying each others virtual company, now thats another story.
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I think is just sayin
 
EmptySoul
Sure, but all cars (not the Nissan) are all stock :D
The only tuned drifting cars I use are the Silvia, mit '90 RX7 and a Ford Mustang 5.0 V8
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There's a 5.0 mustang in GT5?? Where?! I own a 5.0 Mustang in real life (It's a 92' though) and would love to slide around in it! ;)
 

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