Well I can tell you this. Ive played FPSs with the same group of people since the original xbox.  The people with the highest K/Ds in MW3 also were the best in BOPs, MW2, WAW, COD4, Rainbow6V2, RAinbow6v1, Farcry instincts, predator, and 2, Rainbow 6 black arrow, BF3 ect...   The same goes with for the opposite end of the spectrum for those who sucked.

There are a few that get much better over time, and I can only think of 1 that got worse. The bottom line is you can blame lag in individual maps at times cause it does happen, but in the end you are what you are. It almost never changes.

No wonder the community is fuc.ked up, people forgetting its just a game and taking it WAY to seriously. its made for fun and nothing else.

People thinking they are great on this game, boasting what they have done etc, saying they are better than other players because they have a 2.00 K/D, haha it makes me laugh.

All these people complaining about everyting on this game just needs to leave the game alone and move on. Lag and other sh.it will never get sorted on MW3. They have your money now and dont give a Flying F.uk about the players of mw3.

Will complaing about a computer game help the game or the community?

The answer is NO.

I'm always on the wrong side of lag, and I still manage to win over 90% of my matches and hold at least a 3.00 K/D when i'm not playing Face-off or Clan Ops. Am I good, or is my average connection doing all the work for me? You talk like connection matters that much in MW3. It did back in the other CoDs, but you'll never see horrible lag in MW3 unless the host cuts their Xbox off. Lag comp is annoying, but it doesn't affect the game THAT much.

49% of the players are above average.

Let's say the Great Players (TM) are the top 5%.

OP complains about people thinking they are in the top 5%.
ANYONE on this forum is above average because they actually take some sort of interest in the game unlike the Average Player (51%) who just plugs in and play for an hour and goes 11-15, 10-33, 15-10, 25-20. 19-25 before shutting down and doing something else.

I have a harder time believing those who claim to be BELOW average on these forum than I have believing those stating the fact that they are above average.

As I already demonstrated a very long time ago, the average players range from 0.0 KD up to 0.7.
A 0.8 KD and above IS above average.
A top 5% player may go 30-10 and play five times as much as the "average player".
That means that the top 5% player inflicts a 1:3 mark on average players' KD ratio WHILE the top 5 players are present in average of half the games the average players play.
(50% are present one fifth of the 5% players; For every 10 Great Players there are 20 average players online).

ANY above average player will feed off the average players' KD, and the better the player the more likely the player will actually be playing the game.

Want to know what the best source of how good you are in a TDM..... SCORE PER MINUTE.

That was the best thing about Black Ops.  I would go into a room and see all of these 2.0+ but their SPM would be somewhere between 100-150.  I myself always sat in the 250 range because I R-n-G but average less than 2.0 KD.  This would always make me laugh.

In MW3 my lowest SPM is 240 and my highest is 373 (DOME of course).  After finding the spot in Elite that tells the average SPM I found its 275.  Not too bad I feel since I run a 1.79 in TDM.

All other games the K/D is going to be fluctuating because of non-objective seeking players and whatnot.

I know the numbers arent great and I am not saying I am great... I was just giving my .02.

On another note... there is an issue with connection.  Only reason I say this is because of one match I played not 3 days ago.  I was the only person in the lobby with anything higher than a 1.0 ratio, most were sitting at .50-.  I knew something was wrong once the game started because it was truly impossible to kill someone.  The match ended with me going 2-15.... FINAL score of the match.... 1200-7500.  No boosting was noticed, at least I think, and there was never any air support for the other team.  It was just impossible to kill an enemy.  This alone makes it impossible to play a fair and decent match.

Does it really matter who believes they're good in CoD?  Especially as casual and random as this game is LOL