percentile rating

Just curious as to where most people stand in the percentile rating. I am only 753 which isnt very good and classed as a beginner yet my percentile is 53 percent. This means I am better than over half the people on chess.com even though I am only 753 which means over half of people on this site are beginners which seems strange to me.

Hmm.  Where did you hear/learn that a 753 rating is classed as a beginner?

 

The percentile includes players with a sufficient number of games in the last 90 days in the pool.

 

Here is the rating distribution for Rapid (from my stats page)

 

Thankyou for that information that is very interesting most people seem to be between 600-800 rating then it drops of quite rapidly to 2000.

I'd been playing chess for years before this website existed, so I don't really know what a rating of 700 means, at least not from personal experience. Maybe when I was a beginner I was under 500? I have no way of knowing.

But yeah, it's odd to me too. The average adult USCF rating is something like 1500-1600, which would be a little higher here.

My 855 rating is 61.8 percentile which puts me competitive with the vast majority of players on the site. That’s what is so good about it, it attracts millions of not great players to the game. Good for them and good for the game. You don’t have to be in the skinny > 2000 right side of the curve to enjoy yourself. I don’t think “beginner” translates to ratings well. A whole lot of people in the fat part of the curve have been playing a while and very few will ever make 2000, but they’re not beginners, they’re just around average. Like a 60 year old golfer who plays quite a bit in hopes of breaking 90 once in a while. Not a beginner at all.