Measure how far you’ve come from where you started, not from where somebody else started.

Comparison against other people is arithmetic on incomplete data. You cannot see their starting point, their support, or the years before you met them, so the sum is wrong before you begin. Measuring against your own earlier self uses the only figures you actually have, and it is the version that tells you whether what you are doing works.

Take one skill and write down honestly where you were a year ago. Set it beside now. If the difference is small, that is information about your method rather than about you, and it points at something you can change.