Board Thread:Naruto: The Last Discussion/@comment-25828001-20141207134848/@comment-34481916-20180128145947

Naruto has surpassed the Kage level, so regardless of the rank, he would be a hundred times better. Yet, you cannot be promoted to Chunin without participating in the chunin exams, and you can be promoted to jōnin at any time, yet you have to be chunin rank. Also it does make you wonder if you had to become chunin then jōnin to become Hokage, since Naruto skipped both ranks. I think the point of that was just to make people understand the abilities required. Naruto surpassing all of them made him automatically Kage-level.

Though it would be so funny as a filler episode if he participated in the exams. I wonder how many seconds it would take him to destroy all competition plus the area. 2 seconds? 3?