```if:python 
Note: Python may currently have some performance issues. If you find them, please let me know and provide suggestions to improve the Python version! It's my weakest language... any help is much appreciated :)
```

Artlessly stolen and adapted from Hackerrank.

Kara Danvers is new to CodeWars, and eager to climb up in the ranks. We want to determine Kara's rank as she progresses up the leaderboard. 

This kata uses Dense Ranking, so any identical scores count as the same rank (e.g, a scoreboard of `[100, 97, 97, 90, 82, 80, 72, 72, 60]` corresponds with rankings of `[1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7]`

You are given an array, `scores`, of leaderboard scores, descending, and another array, `kara`, representing Kara's Codewars score over time, ascending. Your function should return an array with each item corresponding to the rank of Kara's current score on the leaderboard.

**Note:** This kata's performance requirements are significantly steeper than the Hackerrank version. Some arrays will contain millions of elements; optimize your code so you don't time out. If you're timing out before 200 tests are completed, you've likely got the wrong code complexity. If you're timing out around 274 tests (there are 278), you likely need to make some tweaks to how you're handling the arrays.

Examples:

(For the uninitiated, Kara Danvers is Supergirl. This is important, because Kara thinks and moves so fast that she can complete a kata within microseconds. Naturally, latency being what it is, she's already opened many kata across many, many tabs, and solves them one by one on a special keyboard so she doesn't have to wait hundreds of milliseconds in between solving them. As a result, the only person's rank changing on the leaderboard is Kara's, so we don't have to worry about shifting values of other codewarriors. Thanks, Supergirl.)

Good luck! Please upvote if you enjoyed it :)

```python

USER_FILENAME = "<user_code>"
import sys, json, builtins
import math, heapq, bisect, itertools, functools, collections, statistics, fractions, decimal, operator, array, random, re, string, os, pathlib
try:
    import resource as _res
except Exception:
    _res = None
from collections import Counter, defaultdict, deque, OrderedDict
from functools import lru_cache, reduce
from itertools import accumulate, permutations, combinations, product
from math import gcd, ceil, floor, sqrt
from decimal import Decimal
try:
    from typing import *
except Exception:
    pass
try:
    sys.setrecursionlimit(1_000_000)
except Exception:
    pass
try:
    import site as _site
    try:
        _sys_sites = _site.getsitepackages() if hasattr(_site, "getsitepackages") else []
        for _p in _sys_sites:
            if _p and _p not in sys.path:
                sys.path.append(_p)
    except Exception:
        pass
    try:
        _usp = _site.getusersitepackages()
        if isinstance(_usp, str):
            _usp = [_usp]
        for _p in _usp:
            if _p and _p not in sys.path:
                sys.path.append(_p)
    except Exception:
        pass
except Exception:
    pass

def _disabled_input(*args, **kwargs):
    raise RuntimeError("input() is disabled in callable mode")
builtins.input = _disabled_input

ns = {"__name__": "__judge__"}  # prevent if __name__ == "__main__" blocks
for _k, _v in list(globals().items()):
    if not _k.startswith("_"):
        ns[_k] = _v
_CODE = 'def leaderboard_climb(arr, kara):\n    scores = sorted(set(arr), reverse=True)\n    position = len(scores)\n    ranks = []\n    \n    for checkpoint in kara:\n        while position >= 1 and checkpoint >= scores[position - 1]:\n            position -= 1\n        ranks.append(position + 1)    \n    \n    return ranks'
_co = compile(_CODE, USER_FILENAME, "exec")
exec(_co, ns, ns)

_target = None
_fn_name = 'leaderboard_climb'
if _fn_name:
    if "Solution" in ns:
        try:
            _obj = ns["Solution"]()
            if hasattr(_obj, _fn_name):
                _target = getattr(_obj, _fn_name)
        except Exception:
            _target = None
    if _target is None and _fn_name in ns and callable(ns[_fn_name]):
        _target = ns[_fn_name]
# Fallback: if there's exactly one user-defined function, use it
if _target is None:
    _cands = [v for k, v in ns.items() if callable(v) and getattr(v, "__module__", "") in ("__judge__", "__main__")]
    _user_funcs = [c for c in _cands if getattr(c, "__name__", "").startswith("_") is False]
    if len(_user_funcs) == 1:
        _target = _user_funcs[0]
if _target is None:
    raise RuntimeError(f"Could not resolve callable '{_fn_name}'")

_raw = sys.stdin.read().strip()
if _raw:
    _parsed = json.loads(_raw)
    if isinstance(_parsed, dict):
        _kwargs = _parsed.get("kwargs", {})
        _args = _parsed.get("args", [])
    else:
        _args, _kwargs = _parsed, {}
else:
    _args, _kwargs = [], {}
if not isinstance(_args, (list, tuple)):
    _args = [_args]
_res = _target(*_args, **_kwargs)
try:
    sys.stdout.write(repr(_res) + "\n")
except Exception:
    pass

```

Measured memory_bytes: 5600