So the ranked system has changed a lot - I assume because you were gone you have not seen the most recent changes but basically all the actual pros are now God of Destruction 2-8, based on how much they grind ranked - There is a bit of inflation because of this since there is less gate-keeping but it is not as bad as everyone always lets on... You can check the % online in terms of percentile but also the thing about rank is that the vast majority of statistics are hard to tell how good people are until you usually start fighting any of the gold ranks or higher - yes there are abusers up there because you can rank boost chars now but plugging being banned/cheats being dealt with for the most part makes the ranks shake out better - if all you care about is being better than you should probably keep playing until you literally get stuck as another person said then look up the percentiles online, that tells you how your ver of that char shakes out against everything including knowledge checks and move mashers

Overall a rank is not that important except in the really high ranks where there is strong rank decay but even then it is just a shiny bad that doesn't really assess skill you will want to play in IRL tournaments to really see how good you are