Typical rating progression pace?

I have been playing for four months and my ratings are 1016 daily, 1002, bullet 995, blitz 927 at rapid. What should I do to improve my chess faster? Any suggestions?

on my profile you can see each chesscom blitz rating I hit by date. That being said, otb ratings are much more difficult and costly in time and money to get

stuck around 500 since started playing in December. get slightly over and drop. Find some people who give up easy and go over, rinse and repeat. Someone wrote 700 is knowing how pieces move and little else. That is kinda demoralizing, but so be it. Will keep trying.

800 in one year, and stayed there for four more.

Then went from 1100-1600 in two months, hit 1800 8 months later, 1900 one month later, and 2000 two months after that. Two months after 2000 I hit 2100, a month later 2200. and I've stayed high 2100-2200 for around five months now but almost hit 2300 a week ago. 

So basically 1100-1800 in around a year and then another year to go from 1800-2200.

That's an interesting progression because in my experience from coaching, people find it difficult to push higher after such a long plateau at such a low base. Were you just not trying/not playing for the four years?

I went from 800-1500 in 2.5 months

My impression is that at 1500 is when things start to slow down. I got from 0-1000 throughout my childhood playing very casually with no study at all. 1000-1500 honestly happened practically overnight for me. I closed my old account on chess.com around rating 1300 and reopened this one. I quickly made it to around 1500/1600.

That was about two years ago I believe? I took many beraks from chess, but slowly made my way to 1600, then 1700, and I believe I am on the verge of 1800, although that may be due to me starting to take the game seriously.

Chess progression is slow and unsteady. But as a general frame of reference, the big difference (I believe) is when you get to 1500. The reason for this is not because players magically get better, but because at this point you can't just not lose, you have to start creating wins. This is an entirely different concept and really what seperates an intermediate from an advanced player.

Yeah... I was in elementary school so I was very [bad] and didn't bother to study chess. Considering that I knew only three checkmates and one opening I'm surprised I ever got close to breaking 1000. 

I just had a gaming chair 

Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a chess coach  based in California. Everybody goes at their own pace.  I went from 600 to 1500 USCF in about two years.  Some people are really fast and get to around 1800 in two years.  I would just focus on your progress since everybody is different.  

I hope that this helps.  

I started around 1000 last September (different account), went down to 750 for a week or two. From there I gained about 300 points to get to 1050 around Christmas time, now I'm 1300ish in rapid in March. So for me, it seems like 100 points a month was my progression but I suspect that will start to slow down as it takes longer to increase when you play higher-rated players and I had already been playing chess occasionally for a few years. So I'd say 200+ a month if you're under 1000 and actually work on improving, once your over 1000 it slows down a bit

i’ve been playing for 9 years and i’m mid 1100s.

I was completely new when I started towards the end of last year. I had to learn the moves and everything. I still have a low rating but I'm just carrying on, doing online lessons and trying to go with the flow. It would be good to play at local club level one day, but I'm working away these days. 

I gained 400 rating points in less than a minute.

... then I lost them all again, also in less than a minute.

Easy come, easy go...

Still smarting about that...?

... it's part of the Emu legend.

For me, I think that learning openings and practicing unrated might be the best. Rated games might add pressure to the game already, and cause you to blunder more than you already normally do. I got to 1300 today after a little less than two months. I think that as long as you play daily, you can get there quickly. (I'm not a chess master, but practice makes perfect)

I'm currently at about 1200 and I've been playing for a couple of weeks (mostly the computer and all my friends that know how to play). I learned the rules when I was younger but it had been almost a decade since I'd last played. I think I'm doing pretty solidly but maybe I'm wrong. My goal is to hit 2000 one day, maybe that's unreasonable but I've got to dream. 

Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I’m a chess coach  based in California:  www.ChessByLauren.com 

I think everybody goes at their own pace when it comes down to chess ratings.  For me, I went from 600 to 1500 USCF in two years.  Then I eventually got to the 1800s.  

Some people never make it to 1800 USCF.  

   I heard that some talented people can get to a 2000 rating in less than 2 years.  

If I was you, just focus on yourself and do not compare yourself with others.