Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-25344936-20150502093937/@comment-26235098-20150502100949

Almost Impossible difficulty rating.

I think IH should be the highest difficulty rating and should be used only for "nearly impossible" levels. If this criterion, some IH might actually need downgrading.

As to that, in a related discussion, it was suggested that IH might be overused, and that  an intermediate rating, perhaps called "Extremely Hard", be introduced between VH and IH. That makes a lot more sense to me than having a rating even higher than IH.

To me, it's more about English semantics than the actual difficulties. I feel that something labeled "insanely hard" in English really can't get any harder, except by being mathematically impossible, so that a label that said "nearly impossible" would be synonymous with that. I can't "hear" any difference in meaning between those terms. On the other hand, "extremely hard" would sound harder than "very hard", but not quite as hard as "insanely hard".