вариант 1: использовать postgres, которые поддерживают функции управления окнами (а именно RANK () и DENSE_RANK ())
SELECT user_id, score, rank() over (order by score desc) from scores;
Time : 0.0014 s
вариант 2: использовать самостоятельное объединение: рейтинг пользователя с баллом X равен (1 + количество (*) пользователей с баллом меньше X); это может быть довольно медленно
CREATE TABLE scores( user_id INT PRIMARY KEY, score INT, KEY(score) );
INSERT INTO scores SELECT id, rand()*100 FROM serie LIMIT 1000;
SELECT a.user_id, a.score, 1+count(b.user_id) AS rank
FROM scores a
LEFT JOIN scores b ON (b.score>a.score)
GROUP BY user_id ORDER BY rank;
+---------+-------+------+
| user_id | score | rank |
+---------+-------+------+
| 381 | 100 | 1 |
| 777 | 100 | 1 |
| 586 | 100 | 1 |
| 907 | 100 | 1 |
| 790 | 100 | 1 |
| 253 | 99 | 6 |
| 393 | 99 | 6 |
| 429 | 99 | 6 |
| 376 | 99 | 6 |
| 857 | 99 | 6 |
| 293 | 99 | 6 |
| 156 | 99 | 6 |
| 167 | 98 | 13 |
| 594 | 98 | 13 |
| 690 | 98 | 13 |
| 510 | 98 | 13 |
| 436 | 98 | 13 |
| 671 | 98 | 13 |
time 0.7s
вариант 3:
SET @rownum = 0;
SELECT a.user_id, a.score, b.r FROM
scores a
JOIN (
SELECT score, min(r) AS r FROM (
SELECT user_id, score, @rownum:=@rownum+1 AS r
FROM scores ORDER BY score DESC
) foo GROUP BY score
) b USING (score)
ORDER BY r;
time : 0.0014 s
EDIT
SET @rownum1 = 0;
SET @rownum2 = 0;
SET @rownum3 = 0;
SELECT s.*, s1.r, s2.r, s3.r FROM
scores s
JOIN
(
SELECT score_1, min(r) AS r FROM (
SELECT score_1, @rownum1:=@rownum1+1 AS r
FROM scores ORDER BY score_1 DESC
) foo GROUP BY score_1
) s1 USING (score_1) JOIN (
SELECT score_2, min(r) AS r FROM (
SELECT score_2, @rownum2:=@rownum2+1 AS r
FROM scores ORDER BY score_2 DESC
) foo GROUP BY score_2
) s2 USING (score_2) JOIN (
SELECT score_3, min(r) AS r FROM (
SELECT score_3, @rownum3:=@rownum3+1 AS r
FROM scores ORDER BY score_3 DESC
) foo GROUP BY score_3
) s3 USING (score_3)
ORDER BY s1.r * s2.r * s3.r;