Silver Elite Master

Silver Elite Master is the highest rank you can achieve in the Silver category meaning this rank is above a lot of the novice and newer players to CS:GO. Since it is so close to getting out of silver and into the Gold Nova ranks, some people can say that going from Silver Elite Master to Gold Nova is the hardest rank to achieve for the lower ranks.

Being a Silver Elite Master puts you in the top 75.85% of players. That means, if you were placed in a room with 100 other players, you'd probably be able to beat 24 of them. Total CS thinks that...

This is a rank that can be achieved by most new players with a little bit of time and practice (50-100 hours). Some players with FPS experience achieve this as their starting rank.