If I'm an 800 and the average rating is a 1200, does that mean I'm bad?

This thread is more than 6 years old and the OP hasn't been on in more than three years.  It may as well be allowed to die.

im onley 500 and my avrige is 1220

You know sweetie pie, whenever I want to bump an old thread there's a few thingsI like to think about.

1. The age of the thread.

2. When was the last time the OP signed onto the site?

3. The last time the thread was bumped.

Well....knowing that whenever you create a new post, you are said to be stuck with that post for all eternity.

So I can conclude it must be better to just dig in the chess.com archives and look for 6 or 7 year old threads to bump.

i have been playing just over 1 year now, and I am trying to get to 1200, I was there very briefly. Just focus on learning and it ratings will come. I hit a rough patch in daily chess and lost 180 points in a two week span, but slowed down focused more and goals is 1200 by the end of hte month 1300 by June 1500 by 12/31. keep studying. 

everything is relative, everyone better than you will say you are a beginnger

im 800 join 2 months ago 17 yrs old guess im quite bad despite a lot of plays here

Give it some time. 2 month is not much. I think I was like 800 to after two months to and now, 16 months later I am 1600. You can do it to. 

It means you have not mature yet.

A few years ago I was talking to a friend about money. And he said if we include literally everyone in the world (so people who live in third world countries, unemployed/unable to work, etc) then I would be in the top 5-10% when it comes to wealth. Now that sounds impressive, but it's also misleading when you think just how many people there are in the world. If you were to see how much money I had in the bank, we'd all agree I'm nowhere near rich.

And it's the same with chess rating. If we look at rating distribution, 1500 isn't a good rating really. But on chess.com that would put you in a fairly high percentile purely because of the number of people on the site.

search for the term "chess training".

sometime the rating not give a real player quality because he or she try somethigs new how to find winner version against the rival

I think the average is actually pretty close to 800, in your statistics you can see what your percentile is

The average rating I would say is 800 - 900, and trust me some 1200s do not play like 1200s, so much so that I feel like certain 800s would be better than them

isayoldboy wrote;  "If you are improving steadily, there is no need to worry whether you are good or bad. Just be better than you were yesterday."

What a brilliant comment.

I only joined yesterday, haven't played chess for a long, long time (I'm 60 yrs old) & just here to enjoy myself (& hopefully improve my game as a bonus).

See you all across the board.

I have like 225 

800 is beginner

hi!

sometimes even beginners like you put up resistance in a game but then they make a blunder. Try to avoid blunders in your games and you will improve