Exactly what it says on the tin. What’s your relationship to iNat’s leaderboards? Are you a top identifier or observer of anything? Where do you stand in your local area? Or do you usually just forget that they exist entirely?
I’m proud to be the #1 identifier of genus Araucaria 
I’m currently one of the top identifiers of Mischocyttarus flavitarsis. Admittedly I’ve only made 60 ID’s for that species but it still got me on the top identifier list.
Happy to be the top identifier of hoverflies in Australia!! Observations · iNaturalist. Was quite involved in my rank on the leaderboard back when I was more of a novice identifier, but I don’t really pay too much attention to it nowadays.
This also puts me as the 10th top fly (Diptera) identifier in Australia
Sea butterflies ! And then I find 3 varied taxa off my Peninsula.
Where does one find these leaderboards?
The Explore view has a count of the numbers of identifiers and observers for whatever set of organisms is currently specified. If you click on either of those you get the top 500.
Pick a rare enough taxon (some have less than 60 observations) and you can be the top identifier with rather fewer identifications. In the extreme I’m the joint top identifier for Malva x columbretensis (1 observation). I’ve been going through some Malva and Malope species (and observations languishing at genus) and that’s got me to the top of the leaderboard for some of them.
It’s a bit unfair considering where I am and how long I’ve been here, and some of the other places I’ve been, but I’m the top identifier for a few species, and am the top observer (in a few cases the only observer) of a few other species. There isn’t a way to do a universal leaderboard check though, so it’s kinda a pain to find which ones this applies to. Here are some, but there may be others:
Identifications
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/103937-Laevimon-kottelati
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/114189-Tiwaripotamon-edostilus
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/442599-Primulina-drakei
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1505208-Cinnyris-ornatus-rhizophorae
Observations
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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/74426-Hipposideros-khaokhouayensis
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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/189604-Baccaurea-odoratissima
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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/915106-Chrysochroa-saundersii-tonkinensis
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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/841669-Hippeastrum-cardenasii
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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/442602-Primulina-hiepii (not research grade)
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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1050943-Eustephia-armifera (not research grade)
Since I have been working on group with tonnes of species which have never been identified, I have got over 1,000 first ids now and also several other leaderboards like both species of Zedochir and the genus itself, the genera Melandeva, Messena & Parandes, almost every species of Heteronotus and the genus itself, the list can be so long if included first ids many of which are still not over taken, in fact a majority of them.
For observer, that is another story.
I upload not that much and have a backlog of images to upload.
This should be a small list, apart from my own ids of my own species, especially hoppers which I am good at.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/424135-Pyrilla-perpusilla
top id’er and observer, yay!!!
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1647393-Onthophagus-bicarinatus
BTW I want to have the ability to write there (where they write [taxon] is a [rank] of [general classification] with x observation(s) or the wikipedia summary is) so that I can write my notes there!!!
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1647392-Onthophagus-violaceotinctus
Another of this genus, is one my favourite genera to find, self identified though so not confirmation but looks right!
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/552946-Rhyssemus-rajasthani
Another beetle!
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/922492-Cantacader-quinquecostatus
One of my coolest finds.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1673535-Oxyrhachis-subjecta
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1672839-Oxyrhachis-krusadiensis
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1672464-Oxyrhachis-geniculata
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1652381-Oxyrhachis-minuscula
Another fav genus.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1713007-Gargara-rustica
(me eating my words on this list being small)
I never look at them! 
I have a few iNat Firsts, of which I’m very proud (though 9 years ago when I started it was not so difficult to find something new in Spain), but that’s about it.
I seldom look at them. I know who the identifiers are in my area.
I dislike this aspect, such an abused/misused feat and nuisance.
Alas it’s impossible to opt-out sigh
yes..
@earthknight — “There isn’t a way to do a universal leaderboard check” is exactly what got to me too, so I ended up building one. It’s a small Shiny app that sweeps a user’s most-observed taxa and shows, for each one, the world total, your share of it, and the top 3 globally — so the ones where you’re actually #1 just fall out of the list instead of having to be hunted down taxon by taxon. There’s a role switch, so it runs either as observer or as identifier: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-species-ranking-rarities-open-shiny-app-r-by-andreferrari/82907
Running it on myself as observer, 10 species came back where I’m the top observer worldwide. The top few:
| Species | Obs. | % of world |
|---|---|---|
| Leptotila verreauxi | 555 | 3.9% |
| Didelphis aurita | 278 | 12.6% |
| Tachyphonus coronatus | 273 | 6.7% |
| Aramides saracura | 204 | 7.0% |
| Euphonia pectoralis | 140 | 7.4% |
| Sapajus nigritus | 133 | 2.6% |
No rare-taxon shortcut involved — every one of those is a common, widespread species. It’s just that nearly everything I post comes from a single Atlantic Forest site in Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo, Brazil, recorded over and over with camera traps and daily walks. Which says more about how thinly this forest is still sampled than about me.