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Kraig
dokerbohm wrote:

i really like this break down as you presented it -- it shows how if this game is yours  to master there is a path ----very slow indeed but a path-- and you have shown how 2200 is obtainable to those that see the path -- 3 years 4 month a long time but then 2200 is quite a accomplishment  at least for me looking at it -  again thanks for sharing --- it will help some of us bottom feeders  that need to see a goal presented to beat - wish i had 3 years but then it is what it is -- i feel also you still enjoy playing the game for what it is just a game - thanks   


Thanks for the feedback.
There's definitely a few people who have progressed faster than I, but there are also those who don't have as much time to apply to studying and progress slower too.
I'd say as far as adult improvers go, I improved at that rate by applying approx 1-1.5 hours per DAY to chess on average during the first year - which is quite significant (7-10 hrs per week, half on practical learning; tactics, lessons, drills, etc and the other half on youtube). These days, since reaching 2000/2100, I am lucky if I get to spend 1.5 hours per WEEK studying chess so can't complain when I see slow progress, but I will hopefully find time to pick this back up in the new year!

mashuraa

I started playing apr 9 2022 and stopped jun 16 at 911 elo. Then a couple weeks ago I decided to play again on a guest account since I forgot the password to my old account. Now I've made a new acc and I'm at 1300 now : )

here was my old acc https://www.chess.com/member/shiro9neko I used to be 300 elo.. how far I've come lol

 

also I'm talking about rapid. I suck at blitz :^(

EliyahuMarletti

I have been playing for a little over 3 months and just hit the 700 mark. I watched the tutorials on here in late October, and since then have been watching lots of chess and have made it a new hobby. I didn't have a real chess coach or anything. I think that as long as you are extremely dedicated  you could hit 1200 or higher within that same time frame. 

8alla0

I made this account in November 2020, during peak covid, but quit at 373. I played a few matches in February 2021, but then stopped playing again, this time at 390. I started again a few days ago, and am now up to 680, my personal best rapid rating, and I am climbing.

mashuraa

haha I dropped back to 1200 :C

8alla0

mashuraa rip

godzilaa22

I am playing chess for years and I have been around 800-900 rating, however in last couple of months I achived stable 950-1040 rating. Am I peeking or there is another way I could speed up this, because I am winning against 1300 rated player friends more than 60% of the time. Why is my elo low? I am playing blitz.

Finsharkotter

I went from approximately 3-400 to 1000 in about 8-9 months

cityheightsrepper

300 to 1400 in approximately 3.5 - 4 months. Wonder if 2000 from nothing in a year is possible…

kojame
Kraig wrote:
Kraig wrote:

Same! Dropping in with another update almost exactly 3 years on from when I first posted this topic! Just hit 2100 today!

625 = 3 weeks.
800 = 7 weeks.
1000 = 2.5 months.
1200 = 4 months. (Around the time I posted this very topic 3 years ago!)
1400 = 5 months.
1500 = 8 months.
1600 = 1 year, 1 month.
1700 = 1 year, 6 months.
1800 = 2 years, 1 month.
1900 = 2 years, 6 months.
2000 = 2 years, 9 months.
2100 = 3 years, 4 months.
2200 = ???

The above relate to my blitz progress, I climbed through rapid ratings a little quicker.

I should also say, whenever I hit a new milestone, it was not uncommon for me to swing back down a 100 points or so and fluctuate month on month until improvement and consistency caught up!


Haven't made much progress in blitz, but did manage to break 2200 in Rapid yesterday!

So awesome after just starting and reading this thread to get such an in-depth analysis of your progression that is so much more helpful than a "well everyone is different line." some time is just good to see what a grinder can do..

How many hours a week you think you spend playing / studying per week in a real benchmark /ballpark kinda figure.  

KGreenGator

i think it's highly variable and depends on what elo you're using to measure. fide, uscf and ecf ratings are  arguably much harder to have climb then a lot of sites ratings because they don't have an rd factor as much in them and definitely not one that allows a player to potentially massively jump 100s of points after inactivity in just a couple games. but idk and i think it's highly variable player to player and depends a lot on how much they play, how much they study, how much they train and how much they analyze their own games and thinking for mistakes and improve by doing that.

 

i've heard and seen people jumping up really fast especially little kids that are taking to it like water, play in a club and have a coach but i think that the normal progression a lot slower. i got up to about 900 uscf in a year, 1100-1200 in 2 1/2 and 1400 in 3 1/2 but it take can a lot longer for someone to get up there and i was not consistently up at 1400 i don't think when i hit it in quick in 9th grade.

 

i'm probably about 1700-1800 uscf  on average now but it has taken me a while to hit it. and i took a lot of time to do other things and only played games occasionally in the middle. but in terms of years i've just played solidly and a game probably every other day at least, i think i am at 7 or 8 years of actual  game xp while being at roughly 18000 total games and just recently in the last year have gotten there. the pace is different for everybody though and i mostly play and rarely study and would have probably have gotten there more quicker if i did. i improve when i do and when i do puzzles i've been finding but also like playing more then studying grin.png the hope's someday to hit where i'm at strength otb and be around 2000/expert strength but we'll see grin.png i think it's in a reach because i can play at their level but working on my consistency still/but on my good days i'm up where they're at and can beat or draw an nm but also have days still where i'm not much stronger than 1400 fide or 1500 uscf.

Flameus1110

I made from around 700-1300 in 90 days

Mike_Kalish
mariners234 wrote:

But chess.com daily is different. It's honestly really hard to have a daily rating below 1000 even if you learned chess 1 hour ago... 

I very much disagree. What leads you to this conclusion? 

30packJack
Started a new account a while back. Got to 1250 undefeated. I am tryna push through 1300’s. Was struggling until I switched to the London. Winning almost all of my games as white now. I’ll probably hit another wall in the 1400-1500’s and switch to something else. I don’t know much as far as opening theory but I have definitely noticed that certain openings help more at different rankings. Hope this helps
XLilMagicxX

It can change depending on which mode you play

spritesupremacy

I'm 500 after 1 year

983hf98he4

I've been playing casually for about 2 years (1-2 games at night), I was able to get to 1000 pretty quickly from what I remember, spent about a year getting to 1200 and another year getting to 1350 which is where I am currently.

NasirAhmed9191

It depends on your hardwork and the syllabus

taras11

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h4java

I have progressed quickly as a new player of rapid games over the last month, from 600 to 1200. But I can't play blitz that well, because good chess moves don't come to me instantly. It's a lack of practice.