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You asked

I have a few thousand connections. How can I tell where I rank in the world?

MyLinkDaddy writes

You competitive fool. Do you really think yours is bigger than mine? :-)

There is no definitive and easy answer.

There was no pissing contest to see whose connection count was bigger two years ago. LinkedIn published your actual connection count. It was out in the open with no mystery. Then LinkedIn decided that displaying high connection counts was contrary to their policy of supporting strong connections. You realistically could only have a few such personal connections. If you have thousands of connections, most of them are weak relationships and not what LinkedIn thinks it’s about. LinkedIn changed the display to show only 500+ connections. See ConnectionDisplayLimit.

Of course the results have been 180 degrees from what LinkedIn intended. There now is MORE promotion and drive for high connection counts and network reach, not LESS! LinkedIn didn’t account for human behavior - the innate drive to compete and spur creativity to get around artificial obstacles. Competition has been further exacerbated by the connection InvitationLimit that’s made it difficult for people under 4,000 connections to get separation. Instead of there being one standard connection count number, LinkedIn’s move gave rise to multiple and different ways of promoting your size, including external web sites like MyLink500. The numbers and links in profile headings that promote connection count give it a prominence that it never had before LinkedIn’s silly limit.

You can check our very own MyLink500 but that is far from complete.

There is a way that takes advantage of people promoting their number of connections in their profile heading. It works, assuming you're in the top 500, which is LinkedIn search result limit. Go to Advanced Search, select Sort by number of connections, leave keywords blank, and click Search. Then simply check the listing pages until you find people reporting a little less than the number of connections you seek. For example, assume you have 2,600 connections. I found people promoting less than 2,600 connection on page 46 at the time of this article. So if you had 2,600 connection you'd be ranked roughly at 450 (45 pages timex 10 listings per page).