difficulty rating
How hard something
A difficulty rating is a measure of how challenging something is, typically expressed as a number or category on a standardized scale.
Video games, hiking trails, ski slopes, and escape rooms all use difficulty ratings to help people choose appropriate challenges: The trail has a difficulty rating of 4 out of 5.
The specific scales vary widely—what counts as "hard" depends entirely on the system and activity being rated.
- hardFirm or demanding
- hard modeElevated difficulty option
- easyRequiring minimal effort
- easy modeLowest difficulty option
- challengingHard to accomplish
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- ratingsone star, five stars, two stars, three stars, four stars
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- Ski Signsgreen circle, blue square, black diamond, double black diamond, color code
- trail map elementslegend, scale, contour lines, trailhead, trail markers
- trail mapstrail maps, trailheads, trailhead, trail markers, trail
- geocachingcache, trackable, travel bug, coordinates, logbook
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