What percentile is a 1,000 chess rating?
Here is where 1,000 sits in every pool this site measures. There is no FIDE row: FIDE has issued no rating below 1,400 since 2022, so 1,000 is an online rating and not a FIDE one of any kind.
| Pool | Top | Out of |
|---|---|---|
| Chess.com Bullet derived | Top 65% of that pool | 336,344 |
| Chess.com Blitz derived | Top 70% of that pool | 657,474 |
| Chess.com Rapid derived | Top 65% of that pool | 466,867 |
| Chess.com Classical derived | Top 80% of that pool | 38,941 |
| Lichess Bullet | Top 89.9% of that pool | 336,344 |
| Lichess Blitz | Top 88.4% of that pool | 657,474 |
| Lichess Rapid | Top 82.7% of that pool | 466,867 |
| Lichess Classical | Top 94.2% of that pool | 38,941 |
The Chess.com rows are derived rather than counted: Chess.com publishes no rating distribution, so its curve is the Lichess population mapped through the measured conversion between the two. Percentiles from it are rounded to the nearest 5 and stop at "top 5% or better". The Lichess and FIDE rows are counted from published data.
What 1,000 actually means
A thousand is the first round number anybody chases, and it is worth knowing that it means nothing to the rating system. Elo has no landmarks and the pools have no notches at any particular figure. Where 1,000 does mean something is in your own history; the table above is the honest version of what it is worth against everybody else.
| To reach | Ratings from | Gain |
|---|---|---|
| Top 50% | from 1,250 | +250 |
| Top 25% | from 1,550 | +550 |
| Top 10% | from 1,800 | +800 |
| Top 5% | from 1,950 | +950 |
Band edges, not thresholds: the distributions are counted in bands, so each figure is where that band begins rather than a number you have to hit exactly.
Nearby ratings
Any other rating
This page exists for round hundreds. For anything else — 1,437, 2,051, whatever you actually hold — the lookup takes the number directly and answers from the same distributions.