User blog:KFears/Toru Hagakure's quirk is weird

I've been busy rewatching BNHA recently and there is one thing that caught my attention. It's the results of Quirk Apprehension Test (that's the test that was given by Aizawa on the first day of the school). That's what I found weird in particular:

18th place - Hagakure Toru

19th place - Mineta Minoru

20th place - Midoriya Izuku

What do we know about these people? We know pretty well that Midoriya has a pretty good physical development (it is confirmed by the fact that he managed to clean the whole beach by himself with bare hands). Toru's physical abilities are not known, although it should be obvious that she is no match for Izuku. We also can be sure that Minoru is the least physically capable out of all A1 class, probably even weaker than Toru. In terms of pure physical strength, I'd put them in order of Izuku - Toru - Minoru. We also know damn well that Mineta got a good result in side-to-side jumps and Midoriya managed to get a very convincing ball throw, which would make them have a better score than Toru.

However, there is a catch. Mineta is still the weakest of them all, which can put him 20th despite his result at jumps. Midoriya, however, is much more physically capable. There were 8 tests in total, 4 before the pitch test and 3 after. It should be pretty obvious that Izuku is all-around better at the first 4 than Toru. Pitch was Midoriya's time to shine. After that, he damaged his finger, which lead him, by his own account, to fail other tests. I don't find it very convincing, because Midoriya shows incredibly high pain tolerance all over the story. Moreover, one of the 3 tests was just simple running. Damaged finger shouldn't have skewed the result by much.

To summarise:

1. Midoriya should have had 18th place in 5 tests, an unknown, but great result in ball throwing and 18th-20th place in other 2 tests.

2. Mineta should have had one of the better places in sideways jumps and (most certainly) 20th place in 7 other tests.

3. Toru should have had 19th place in ball throwing, 20th in sideways jumps, 18th-19th place in the last 2 tests and 19th in others.

So how come we see that result? I have a few theories:

1. Scoring system is extremely weird. Different scorings for different tests, extremely non-linear progression of scores given depending on the results (I can't even give an example, just remember that consistently pretty bad result of Toru is valued more than Izuku's consistently just bad result with 1 flash of great result), your call. I would say that the system would be extremely unnatural and maybe even pointless for that to be achieved.

2. Toru is basically a part of Joestar family, as her physical capabilities exceed Izuku's. Find that unlikely? Yeah, me too.

3. Toru has some hidden abilities (yay, the exciting stuff!). There are few ways for that to be achieved, such as Toru having an additional quirk (extremely unlikely, although theoretically possible. All-For-One might have given a second quirk to her without damaging her mind and body, which would basically qualify her as the traitor), mutation of her own's (something like father's invisibility quirk and mother's power-up merging together) or even her having a completely different quirk, which she can use in order to become invisible either intentionally (which would mean she is a traitor, because otherwise there is no reason for her to hide her real quirk even when she is in danger) or unintentionally (which can be caused by past trauma or complete ignorance of self's ability).

4. Writers just didn't pay attention to such a small detail in favor of developing Midoriya's character more. Boring, but most realistic answer.

Also, it should be noted that Izuku got a worse result than Mineta. However, it is easy enough to explain. With what was shown, it is very likely for Mineta to be scored 1st in sideways jump, while it is pretty tough for Mizuku to be 1st in ball throwing. We know that Uraraka has 1st place and Bakugou has slightly better result than Deku. We also know that UA likes to put an immense distance between 1st place and 2nd place, which would account for Mineta having better overall score than Deku.

So, what do you think?