The Difficulty Hierarchy (2024)

The Difficulty Hierarchy is a hierarchy that has a variety of difficulties that you can use to say how hard a given task is. Unlike the other hierarchies, the entries here do not need their own pages and are organized in a table. The difficulties are divided into classes, with lower classes being easier and the higher classes being harder. Feel free to add more difficulties and classes!

This was inspired by the JJT wiki. Check them out!

Score[]

Score is a value that says how hard the difficulty is. The larger the score, the harder the difficulty. Neighboring difficulties do not need to have adjacent scores, and larger gaps between the difficulties mean that the second difficulty is much harder than the first. The score of a difficulty also loosely correlates to the DPRS rating of an entity that would find doing that difficulty "average", so for example since a human has a DPRS rating of 1 then they would find the difficulty with score 1 (Normal) average.

Here are the rules to add difficulties:

• The difficulty must have a name, an icon and a score.
• Icons can be any image as long as it's square. Transparency is allowed!
• If you made an icon specifically for a difficulty, then add "difficulty" somewhere in the filename (optional).
• Make icons distinctive (or at least not very similar to other icons).
• Icon size can be whatever you want, but it has to be displayed in this page at 30x30px! If the icon has glowy stuff outside it like the ones for human level, then try to scale it up appropriately so it looks consistent with the others.
• If you make an icon with low resolution like a pixel art icon, then make it higher resolution before uploading, because Fandom makes icons with low pixel count blurry which sucks.
• Score can be decimal and can increment by any value from difficulty to difficulty.
• You can add classes lower than 1 (eg 0 or -1 or -2).
• You can add difficulties wherever you want, even inbetween other difficulties that already exist.

With that out of the way, here are the difficulties!

Class 0: Cellular level[]

These difficulties are extremely easy for humans, and are average for inferior beings like cells or other animals.

Icon	Name	Score	Description
	Basic	0.01	Not possible by unicellular life. This include specialised tasks such as that of a neuron, which cannot fend for itself, but does a vital job.
	Mundane	0.05	The class terminator of class 0. This difficulty is for activities that are only possible by relatively complex multicellular life.

Class 1: Human level[]

These difficulties are the ones that are in the skill range of an average human or the whole human race.

Icon	Name	Score	Description
	Automatic	0.1	Automatic day-to-day activities that don't require effort. Eg. breathing.
	Elementary	0.25	Routine things we do daily, like walking.
	Easy	0.5	An easy task, but requires some effort, eg. running (for short periods)
	Simple	0.75	A simple task, may require some effort. Eg. reading.
	Normal	1	Difficulty a task an average human can do without much difficulty. Eg. carrying bags
	Difficult	1.5	A difficult or long process, but not by much. Eg. cleaning your room.
	Hard	2	A hard task. This may include carrying a large amount of groceries home, or cleaning a house.
	Harder	3	An even harder task. This may include something like studying for an exam.
	Challenging	4	A very challenging task, for example: writing a multi-page essay.
	Intense	8	An intense task that requires dedication. For example, learning a new skill.
	Insane	16	An insanely hard task that requires serious dedication. For example, resisting the urge to spam the comments with "PROTOGENS FOR LIFE" writing a whole novella.
	Insurmountable	32	Almost impossible for one person unless they put in months of work. For example, becoming experienced in a skill.
	Extreme	64	Requires many people or lots of work and training. Eg. becoming fluent in a language or building a highly sophisticated machine.
	Impossible	128	100% impossible for 1 person. Requires a whole team of specialised and skilled people. Eg. building a house.
	Unbelievable	512	A task that requires the culmination of many, many people. Eg. building a supercomputer.
	Fabled	2048	The peak of human achievement; the coming together of the best and most skilled people on all of Earth to create something truly amazing. Eg. building the LHC.
	Indescribable	8192	This difficulty is something that would be completely and utterly unheard of; the result of several decades of work.
	Incomprehensible	32768	A SUPER hard task, for example, colonising all of Mars.
	Unforgiving	131072	This difficulty level is something that would truly alter the course of humanity permanently. It would transcend anything ever done before, EVER!!! For example, building a Dyson Swarm around the Sun.
	Unspeakable	524288	Monumental achievements such as colonising all the planets.
	Unthinkable	2097152	This difficulty lacks description because it's so incomprehensibly hard you wouldn't BELIEVE it, but this is something like fully controlling the Solar System or going to Proxima Centauri.
	Unimaginable	8388608	As the name suggests, it's really unimaginable. So unimaginable I can't even think of an example!
	Immeasurable	33554432	This would be, like, colonising all nearby star systems.
	Ludicrous	134217728	I need to quit yapping.
	Enigmatic	536870912	This difficulty is very strange... So strange there are no examples- okay yeah I'll admit I have no ideas.
	Esoteric	2147483648	This would be like colonising 1% of our galaxy, which is a LOT! A LOT A LOT! A LOT LOT LOT LOT LOT LOT LOT LO- can you please shut up?
	Mystifying	8589934592	This would be like colonising, like 5-10% of our galaxy. Which may seem weird but remember human progress is exponential.
	Unknowable	34359738368	The final difficulty. This is like colonising the whole Milky Way. This is also the class terminator of the Human Class. Afterwards, it's the Feeshial Class.

Class 2: Feeshial Level[]

According to Feesh Lore, the Feesh were created right as humanity finished colonising the Milky Way. And their conquest of the Omniverse began around the time when humanity exited their Multiverse.

These difficulties are the ones that are in the skill range of the Feesh race.