Well I've seen quite newbie that are professional themselves on the track they are in. I've seen those newbies before that has lots of knowledge in mining, trading, chart reading, gambling, programming, technicalities, etc.
Most of them ranked up very quick since they are successful in doing business, sharing and interacting with other users here.

One great example is @n0nce which I've seen being a newbie and climbed up and received huge respect from the whole forum.