How long does it take to get to each benchmark, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000, 2200?

I guess you can associate chess rating with mountain climbing. The higher you get, the harder it becomes to climb higher.

somewhat, i hit 2000 chess.com blitz via rd on 3 wins tho lol after getting up to about 1800 blitz so getting up to a number on here isn't necessarily that hard but staying at is is another thing.

It took me 5 years to get to 1900 🙃

although when the pandemic started was when I seriously started playing chess and studying. 

You could get 2k easily within 2-3 years

I got from 995-2015 in 16 months.

Time isn't an accurate measure of performance. I've been playing chess on this site for 3 years but have only got 3,021 games played to date, some people crush that number in a year. paired with the fact I seldom do the puzzles too. Time is only a valid parameter if the number of games, puzzles and study time was the same which I can guarantee it's not for everybody. Also, each of those have their own parameters to determine the effectiveness of "practise". But on the simple basis of, I have 3000 games played and I'm in X Elo is a better measure of ability and progress than I've played for 3 years, especially in my circumstance.

I've played 3,021 games and I'm just shy of 1200 Elo.

If you always play people rated 150 points or more higher than you, chances are good you will draw and win occasionally and thus get more boosts to your rating than drops. If you play against everyone, chances are you will draw or lose occasionally to people around same or lower rating and it will probably be a steady decline or you will hover around some average number. Also if you seek everyone, chances are more lower players will accept than higher rated, so you will always be fighting a bit unfair fight if you want to get higher rated. It's basic statistics. Also if you see grandmasters start playing everyone, they will occasionally draw or lose to someone rated perhaps 2000-2100, sometimes lower, and they will have to play perhaps 50 games to win back the lost rating, and if they start playing too much, concentration also breaks and it will be a steady decline. - I can almost guarantee you, that if you set your formula on chess.com to not lower than -50 your rating and with the highest limit you can choose, you will see steady improvements to your rating. - That said, it might not make you a significantly better player all in all, because what you are seeing is a case of how ratings work and not necessarily your true playing strength. I've been playing for 25 years or so, and I'm still occasionally running around 1450-1600 in rating, because I like to just match up with everyone here, but on another side, I managed to get some games against a CM (Candidate Master) and won a game in four and ended up getting some 30-40 points to my rating total because of it. So you see, don't worry too much about the rating. Ratings don't make you play good. Good chess skills make you good. Often you can spot a good player by looking at their win-draw-loss percentages, GM's are usually above 70% ... ordinary but really good players, are around 60% and pretty good solid players are around 50%. Below 50% are those who are pretty good but not quite so good as the better ones. Also, what type of games influence the results. - If you play 3+0 blitz and against really good players, chances are they might blunder occasionally because of the speed and you get a draw or win. If you play really long games with increment, you will probably see a better estimation of your true strength, because people have time not to make the worst time trouble blunders. - You get the point now, - a whole whole range of issues have influence on your ratings. The amount of sleep or if you have eaten enough, if you are cold or feel well, - sometimes the design of the pieces, color or pieces and board, contrasts, how big or small your board is on the screen, if your are stressed out or feeling good, all these things influence you. I would say, everyone, or practically everyone, except really insanely genious people with photo memory and wild skills, will sometimes run around on the rating floor and try to get up. The people you sometimes see, that ace out their ratings and play for the top spots are more rare than winning the lottery and you are looking at years of performance sometimes from early childhood. If you startet to play as an adult, you will never get anywhere near their level, just like you'll never be a famous moviestar or an olympic athlete (unless by some chance you already are that and play chess for fun). My advice - enjoy the game, play because you like it, and take it seriously but not too seriously, and accept that our concepts of who is good and who is bad and why are sometimes completely different from reality. Oh and I almost forgot... If you play in a chess club over the board long games, you will increase your strength better than if you play blitz or online games all the time. I've seen that happen a lot and to myself also. I think it has something to do with concentrating properly and having the time to think it all out and some kind of mental synergies because of all these things. I will bet most players concentrate better on a 3d board in a real life setting than an on screen game. So best advice, join a real chess club and get some real experiences. Also in a club you will be able to find friends and players who are maybe better than can teach you stuff and everyone talks about the games and you get inspired and so on. It helped my chess tremendously playing in a club. And if you like studying, take a look at some iconic games from the past, how the really great play and study chess and chess history and read books and info you can get your hands on. Everything is training and everything helps. Also sometimes do something other than chess, chances are that the other activities might supplement chess nicely and you might see an improvement to your chess skills because you did some other stuff. Sometimes you learn stuff better in other games than in chess, - for instance if you play checkers, small mistakes compound really dramatically where as in chess you sometimes have some chances even after you made a blunder or too. Card games too can make you better in chess. Strategy games might also help, - anything that makes you think and exercise that brain of yours is a really worth while thing. Chess history btw. is full of people who played other things aswell. As Bruce Lee said it once, - you better train every part of your body. And you'll see professional chess players often train their body and mind vigorously aswell, because at the end of the day, body and mind depend on each other.

@anujoseph: That is actually the most accurate thing I have heard. It actually might have taken me 2 months to reach 1000 and I just reached 1300 after 6 months. So great job!

eh ?!

My progress since 2019:

625 = 3 weeks.
800 = 7 weeks.
1000 = 2.5 months.
1200 = 4 months. 
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 reached 2k rapid after around 1.5 years, but stopped playing rapid as I didnt really enjoy it. I recently revisited it and passed 2200, but blitz is my favourite. Big difference between a 2200 blitz player and a 2200 rapid player imo!

1800 USCF should be over 1600 in blitz.

I don’t want to believe it but age is a factor on progress. Getting older sucks.

I was 28 when I started playing in 2019. I played casually with colleagues for approx 3 weeks BEFORE signing up to chess.com. I still vividly remember my first game, I opened up with 1.A4, then played 2.Ra3 to try bring my rook out next. I didnt know about castling, stalemate, en passent, etc until about one month later.

I became obssessed with chess, watching youtube, puzzles and lessons.

Well there is no way to prove or disprove. You either believe him or you don't... so, whatever.

I think it is extremely normal to start at 2200 in 2019
I started to learn chess at the beginning of this year. In otb:
1000: between April and May
1200: June
1500: Between July and August
1700: September（I made big progress during this period because I had a summer vacation and took part in competitions and practices every day）
2000: Early December

yes It is true

depends on how hard you work

I started play chess when i was 13 years old

1000 Elo - 1 month

1200 Elo - 3 months

1500 Elo - ~1 year

2000 Elo - 2 years & 3 months (23.12.2021)

2200 Elo - 3 years & 3 months (27.12.2022)

I think if you practice enough, you could likely reach 2000 rating on chess.com in about 2 years. I started my account on January 1st and I am almost 1000. You just have to practice tactics, review games, and play enough games too. You also just have to be willing to change your training plan as you reach higher elo. What worked for you to get to 500 elo will probably not work to get to 1500 elo. Most importantly, do not play like 20-something games in a day, because that is the easiest way to lose a bunch of rating or just lose interest in the game. Remember it is about enjoying chess, too.

You have no idea what you are talking about. I would be surprised if you reached 2000 chess.com in 24 months. Even if you do, it is not a linear progression and reaching it in 2 years does not mean in another 2 years you will reach 3000. Especially around the 2200 range you start facing serious players in the blitz pool on here—titled players etc. So without a lot of work you will likely just plateau before you even go beyond 2000.

I’m 600 and I’ve been playing for almost a year ;-; (i dont play much)