Virtua Fighter 5 REVO · v1.10 · All ranks

Inputs per minute

Higher ranks work the controller faster: about 410 inputs a minute through ranks 21–29, climbing steadily from rank 30 to nearly 500 at the top. Most of what looks like a character difference is the players, except for Akira, whose players press about a tenth more on him than on anyone else. The side that pressed more wins the round a little more often, and more so the bigger the gap.

Inputs a minute430

Ranks 21–29 → 40–46409 → 488

Faster side won the round54.4%

Player-rounds read802,480

An input is any change on the controller: a new stick direction, or a button pressed or released. Walking and crouching count as much as attacking. Only the live round is timed, from the bell to the moment it is decided. This is a fixed 1-in-10 sample of the matches: 104,911 of the 1,053,055 pulled for the opening-moves report.

By rank band

Inputs a minute, each side filed under its own rank


All ranks	430	425.5–434.5	4,827	802,480
Ranks 21–29	409	404.1–414.4	3,977	353,680
Ranks 30–39	437	430.9–443.5	2,096	369,528
Ranks 40–46	488	475.0–501.6	439	79,272

Every rank

Each side's rank at the time of the match; bars either side of the average over every rank


21	406	394.5–416.9	1,435	41,553
22	406	396.5–416.5	1,132	21,208
23	408	398.1–417.1	1,283	32,000
24	408	397.9–418.7	1,368	40,271
25	410	400.4–419.1	1,217	31,425
26	408	400.5–414.8	1,594	49,979
27	410	403.9–417.2	1,488	49,972
28	412	405.0–418.8	1,232	36,955
29	413	405.4–420.7	1,248	50,317
30	415	407.3–423.4	1,165	51,313
31	420	410.6–429.7	988	35,392
32	427	418.1–435.8	966	43,982
33	430	420.7–438.9	984	46,497
34	437	427.7–446.9	770	31,538
35	444	433.2–454.7	708	37,148
36	446	435.8–455.3	656	38,072
37	452	441.1–463.5	518	25,728
38	457	444.9–469.5	517	31,077
39	469	455.0–483.7	438	28,781
40	471	458.1–484.2	347	19,906
41	485	469.0–501.2	315	28,161
42	497	477.5–515.8	237	19,317
43	508	485.9–531.0	122	8,384
44	533	501.4–564.9	43	2,122
45	489	452.2–525.3	12	1,035
46	503	420.4–585.4	4	347

Every character

Raw inputs a minute, and the within-player gap beside it


Akira	482	470.3–494.6	959	+11.4%	+10.6 – +12.2	< 0.0001	455
Lau	454	442.1–466.6	648	+1.1%	+0.5 – +1.8	0.0016	370
Jacky	450	434.0–465.8	984	+1.0%	+0.2 – +1.7	0.016	510
Lion	449	436.8–460.8	637	+3.3%	+2.5 – +4.1	< 0.0001	308
Eileen	441	427.2–454.6	321	+2.6%	+1.5 – +3.7	< 0.0001	181
Taka	441	424.2–457.6	369	+2.5%	+1.4 – +3.7	< 0.0001	202
El Blaze	430	409.0–451.0	455	+0.2%	-0.7 – +1.2	0.64	261
Lei Fei	423	410.2–436.4	414	-1.1%	-2.1 – -0.1	0.033	201
Brad	421	407.5–434.2	517	-2.7%	-3.6 – -1.8	< 0.0001	278
Pai	421	407.9–433.2	646	+0.3%	-0.5 – +1.0	0.47	320
Kage	420	407.9–432.7	664	-2.8%	-3.6 – -2.0	< 0.0001	368
Goh	418	407.9–429.2	629	-0.8%	-1.5 – -0.1	0.029	336
Dural	418	398.2–437.1	142	-0.6%	-2.3 – +1.0	0.47	84
Shun	416	402.1–430.4	500	-0.9%	-1.9 – +0.0	0.067	251
Wolf	414	403.8–425.1	725	-2.4%	-3.1 – -1.7	< 0.0001	381
Jeffry	410	398.7–420.6	752	-4.2%	-4.9 – -3.5	< 0.0001	427
Jean	407	394.7–419.2	569	-3.9%	-4.6 – -3.2	< 0.0001	336
Aoi	406	390.4–421.6	520	-0.7%	-1.7 – +0.3	0.23	235
Sarah	405	388.2–421.8	608	-4.0%	-5.0 – -3.0	< 0.0001	277
Vanessa	394	373.2–415.5	438	-4.1%	-5.2 – -2.9	< 0.0001	210

The faster side, in figures

Rounds the side with more inputs won


Every round	54.4%	54.3–54.6%	212,322	389,987
Same rank	53.9%	53.5–54.3%	29,731	55,173
0–10% apart	51.0%	50.7–51.3%	46,527	91,207
10–20% apart	52.3%	52.0–52.6%	45,160	86,356
20–30% apart	53.8%	53.4–54.2%	38,486	71,519
30–40% apart	55.5%	55.1–56.0%	29,743	53,555
40%+ apart	60.0%	59.7–60.3%	52,406	87,350

Every second

Inputs a minute in each second since the bell, rounds won against rounds lost


0	551	542	404,570	397,909
1	441	419	404,570	397,909
2	435	414	404,561	397,899
3	436	421	404,495	397,850
4	436	423	404,385	397,772
5	436	424	404,051	397,515
6	435	424	403,347	397,034
7	433	422	401,955	396,076
8	432	422	399,891	394,197
9	432	422	396,291	390,835
10	432	422	390,894	385,618
11	432	421	382,988	377,912
12	430	421	372,785	368,011
13	429	420	359,963	355,516
14	428	420	344,785	340,675
15	427	420	327,416	323,703
16	427	419	308,298	304,943
17	425	418	287,661	284,739
18	424	417	265,244	262,651
19	423	416	241,950	239,682
20	422	416	218,095	216,125
21	422	414	193,725	192,093
22	420	412	169,656	168,330
23	419	411	145,927	144,797
24	418	410	123,421	122,493
25	416	410	102,866	102,112
26	417	407	84,271	83,667
27	416	405	67,944	67,502
28	416	405	53,892	53,498
29	413	403	42,051	41,756
30	412	401	32,554	32,355
31	410	400	24,734	24,569
32	409	399	18,632	18,489
33	407	397	13,934	13,822
34	409	393	10,243	10,139
35	399	390	7,549	7,456
36	398	392	5,492	5,408
37	395	385	3,936	3,866
38	389	378	2,854	2,793
39	377	380	2,038	1,992
40	368	362	1,476	1,439
41	342	342	1,069	1,027

Round length

Inputs a minute, by how long the round lasted


0–10 s	493	404.5–581.5	15,354
10–20 s	436	431.1–440.0	305,494
20–30 s	429	424.9–433.8	397,825
30–40 s	421	416.6–426.3	79,777
40–50 s	393	385.4–400.2	4,030

Short rounds are mostly the opening burst. Long rounds are slower partly because patient players make long rounds, not only because players tire.

Each side of every round counts once, whoever was pulled for the match. A side with no input in any round of a match is a controller left alone, not a slow player, and is left out, as are sides ranked outside 21–46 at the time.

The sample is drawn by a hash of the match, so the same matches come back on every pull and a full pull will contain this one. The figures will tighten, not move, when it lands.