No. Very bad in fact. But it is very easy to get better!
Is 500 elo Good?
It's impossible to get an appreciation of how good you are here based on your elo since this site is so bad at catching cheaters.
Players tend to be more highly rated if they are skilled at the game despite increasing numbers fair play violations. The reality is that cheating is very rare at both yours and OP's elo level, so your rating is fairly indicative of your real playing strength.
500 elo is slightly below the chess.com global average.
The "global average" does not take trolls into account.
If your elo is unironically lower than Martin's, you have to be doing it on purpose...or you are actually beyond help. Even before I made a conscious effort to get better at the game, I wasn't nearly as bad as he is.
As such, the actual average is probably much higher. I'd say I'm slightly below average, despite (allegedly) being in the 65th percentile.
500 elo is slightly below the chess.com global average.
The "global average" does not take trolls into account.
If your elo is unironically lower than Martin's, you have to be doing it on purpose...or you are actually beyond help. Even before I made a conscious effort to get better at the game, I wasn't nearly as bad as he is.
As such, the actual average is probably much higher. I'd say I'm slightly below average, despite (allegedly) being in the 65th percentile.
The actual average is the actual average. Not everyone shares your particular circumstances or genetic advantages and I'm certain some members on this site join prior to ever even having held a chess piece. The notion that enough active players on this site are trolling and wasting their time purposely playing badly to appreciably drag the global average down is laughable.
500 elo is pretty good, and better than most people would manage to get (this includes those who don't have an account). Still, it's not a rating that demands any major respect from people. But seeing that you started only a few months ago, you have a fully acceptable level. But you can get even better! Try to blunder-check (double-check that your move doesn't hang any piece) before every move, and you will probably raise a few hundred elo (and try to come even further after that by training tactics and such).
is 500 elo good?