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calbitt5750
It’s a great thing for chess in general. I’m Daily rated 908 and 66 percentile after a couple of years. I have no better than average aptitude, but I do lessons, read some Pandolfini, and play quite a bit, so I’m top third in the chess.com universe. Maybe I’ll make 1000, but don’t think I’ll have the aptitude for much more. But I enjoy it. A truly good player can see how high he can go. A rank beginner can do the same, so it works for everyone who wants to play. At 1170 after a fairly short time, you could make the 2000 club with some serious time commitment to deep learning and you have the right kind of brain. 99+ percentile, but still a few thousand better.
ShikshaWithPraveen

The simple truth is, there are a lot of useless accounts on chess.com that are made of players who have played little to none, with extremely low ratings. The data is skewed because of that.

AravindDevarajan

the rating system as well as winning pts distribution system needs a big reboot/revamp on this platform.. i just don't understand why i'm in 2000s still when i beat the 64th globally ranked on rapid leaderboards here quite comfortably

Astro0NZ

Where can I find this histogram? I stumbled on it once but can't find my way back there

Martin_Stahl
Astro0NZ wrote:

Where can I find this histogram? I stumbled on it once but can't find my way back there

It's on the Leaderboard pages

Black-Dog2
Astro0NZ wrote:

Where can I find this histogram? I stumbled on it once but can't find my way back there

https://www.chess.com/leaderboard/live/rapid?group=84356 for example