Just broke into the top 100 on a CTF leaderboard and it feels weird

I entered this capture the flag competition three weeks ago just to practice password cracking, but somehow I hit 97th place last night without even trying for points. The milestone was 500 flags captured total, which sounds like a lot but most were just default credentials on simulated IoT devices. Has anyone else found that CTF rankings don't really measure real-world security skills?

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thea7043d ago

Rankings just measure how much time you wasted on easy flags.