Word.ws English Dictionary

skill floor

skill floor noun: the minimum amount of skill required to be considered competent at some game or activity.

Noun

skill floor (plural skill floors)

  1. The minimum amount of skill required to be considered competent at some game or activity.
    • Coordinate term: skill ceiling
    • Hey, I like all the VS, it's just the skill ceiling may not be as high as on some other games. But I feel the difference is far enough from the floor that it provides a decent spread among players in the area. The problem comes in when the skill ceiling is close to or even ON the skill floor.1999 February 21, Kid Vid, “VS=Good Game”, in alt.games.sf2 (Usenet)

Examples of skill floor in a sentence

  • If we set 3-ball cascade as the skill floor of juggling, 5 ball cascade is not an extremely low level.2004 February 29, Scott Kurland, “poi/juggling communication invitation”, in rec.juggling (Usenet):
  • Another way to say this is "low skill floor, high skill ceiling."2009, Steve Swink, Game Feel: A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation, Boca Raton, F.L.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 302:
  • These are champions with considerably elevated skill floors – they’re simply difficult to play any kind of competently.2015 December 5, Julian Aidan, “Complex Champions Means Longer Life For League Of Legends”, in Hardcore Gamer, archived from the original...
  • Designing a game with a high skill ceiling (where players must invest significant time and effort to achieve maximum skill) often results in a game with a relatively high skill floor as well.2019 June 13, Game Design Snacks: Easily Digestible Game Design Wisdom, Pittsburgh, P.A.: ETC Press, →ISBN, page 111:

Forms of skill floor

pluralskill floors

Questions about skill floor

What does skill floor mean?
Skill floor means the minimum amount of skill required to be considered competent at some game or activity.
How do you use skill floor in a sentence?
If we set 3-ball cascade as the skill floor of juggling, 5 ball cascade is not an extremely low level.
What part of speech is skill floor?
Skill floor is a noun.
What is the plural of skill floor?
The plural of skill floor is skill floors.

Words near skill floor in the dictionary

  1. skill
  2. skill ceiling
  3. skill ceilings
  4. skill crane
  5. skill cranes
  6. skill floor
  7. skill floors
  8. skill issue
  9. skill issues
  10. skill monkey
  11. skill monkeys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skill floor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-skill floor.wav.

Cite this entry: “skill floor.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/skill_floor. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.