How good is 2000 elo in blitz? (serious question)

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NoMindTaro

Hello, I've been playing chess on and off casually for a couple of years and I'm in the 1950-2000 elo range in blitz. According to stats I'm in the top 1-0.5% range. But it doesn't feel right since I've never studied anything or analyzed any game. 

are the stats skewed due to the massive influx of new players?

Bettyuk

Average club player I'd say. I'm in the same boat (2100 blitz) and our percentile here is definitely inflated due to the casual players. If you go to any random club or tournament, we wont be in the top 0.5%, we'll be in the top 25% most likely.

DootDootDoot123
Im around 2000 fide and ive never really managed to get to anything above 2300 on here🥴
DootDootDoot123
So idk about 2400 being tournament player probably ~2000 means you can get a uscf of like 1700 or something 2400 is at least expert or master level
sleeprunfrancesa

I 2003 rating in chess.com

Ultra_Chessman101

I'm 400 at blitz...

Saltyirishmen

Seems like every time I read a post on here in regard to eilo people just brush off what most would consider a very impressive eilo of 2,000 as though its (common). I wont be surprised soon if someone says I have a 3,000 rapid rating and someone says of thats really nothing cause there are like 1,000 players in our world of over 8 billion people, so no biggy get good scrub or some such....

medelpad
2000 blitz is good, although yesterday I played a 2000 that hung mate in 1 within the first 10 moves.
PromisingPawns

A moderately good player, but not yet ready for winning tournaments.

pranaveshcarlsen
and i am 0
pranaveshcarlsen
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tygxc

Magnus Carlsen:
3276 chess.com blitz
https://www.chess.com/member/magnuscarlsen

2886 FIDE blitz
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/1503014

Hence 2000 chess.com blitz = 2000 + 2886 - 3276 = 2000 - 390 = 1610 FIDE blitz

medelpad
tygxc wrote:

Magnus Carlsen:
3276 chess.com blitz
https://www.chess.com/member/magnuscarlsen

2886 FIDE blitz
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/1503014

Hence 2000 chess.com blitz = 2000 + 2886 - 3276 = 2000 - 390 = 1610 FIDE blitz

This could be right but a larger sample size would be useful.

tygxc

@14

You can generate any number of additional data points.
Fabiano Caruana: 3056 chess.com blitz, 2770 FIDE blitz
Hikaru Nakamura: 3300 chess.com blitz, 2874 FIDE blitz
Anish Giri: 3087 chess.com blitz, 2715 FIDE blitz

deleted-8568

I watched Liam vs Danny yesterday, both were 3000+ and danny adopted the guy, as if playing against a rookie.

rating means nothing on chess.com, one can increase his rating by mass playing an opponent. usually by winning majority of those games, other one just tilts afterward.

to op: it means nothing in here, get a fide rating and play otb to figure it out

medelpad

Like me

SpookyAnime
Honestly not sure
SpookyAnime
Is it just me but in the time I walked across my room I got a billion notifications? Lol
sndeww

Good enough to be an average tournament player

Uhohspaghettio1
medelpad wrote:
tygxc wrote:

Magnus Carlsen:
3276 chess.com blitz
https://www.chess.com/member/magnuscarlsen

2886 FIDE blitz
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/1503014

Hence 2000 chess.com blitz = 2000 + 2886 - 3276 = 2000 - 390 = 1610 FIDE blitz

This could be right but a larger sample size would be useful.

It's not right at all. I explained how that's not how they do it here:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-dot-com-vs-fide-ratings?page=2#comment-100444533

And here's the link to a survey with thousands of people in it:

https://chessgoals.com/rating-comparison/#chesscomotb

According to it around 2100 blitz here should be around good enough for 2000 otb. There's a slight possibility that it's easier to get ratings here now than when that survey took place, but it wasn't that long ago and there hasn't been noticeable increase for people with stable blitz ratings.

There's something really amiss about that guy, I don't know if he's really old or maybe there's a chance he's really young but he just repeats the same false information and bad advice/ideas over and over no matter how many times he's been proven wrong.

So 2000 blitz is very respectable, it's all relative to someone else or some group of people. It reminds me of weightlifting where people always view things in terms of their own numbers, everyone below that are baby weights and everyone who didn't progress as fast were doing everything wrong when it actually depends on a lot of factors, some people are just lucky enough that they have better genes or developed in a better way for whatever the goal is, for chess you have to be visually see things clearly with how your brain is wired or no matter how much you train you won't be at a very high level.