Population Report

What percentage of cards get a 10?

Across the 40,335 cards DCM has graded, 21.3% received a 10 and 44.9% received a 9, so 66.2% of graded cards landed on a 9 or better. Those 40,335 grades cover 25,100 unique cards in 37 categories. Gem rates differ sharply by category: Football cards reach a 10 32.9% of the time, Yu-Gi-Oh! cards 14.1% of the time. Every figure on this page is counted from DCM's own grading records, not estimated.

DCM grades on whole numbers from 1 to 10 with no half grades, and the final grade is the lowest of the four subgrades — centering, corners, edges and surface — so one weak area caps the card. What most often does the capping is centering. In DCM's own published v8.6 analysis of 8,000+ graded cards (mid-2026), centering was the limiting factor on 41.8% of cards, and it was the reason a card missed a 10 in 72.7% of cards that graded 9. The published standard those grades are scored against is at /grading-standard, and its known limits at /grading-limitations.

Counted live from the DCM grading database. Last updated October 4, 2026. These are DCM grades only; they are not a population count for any other grading company.