What percentile is a 1,100 chess rating?
Here is where 1,100 sits in every pool this site measures. There is no FIDE row: FIDE has issued no rating below 1,400 since 2022, so 1,100 is an online rating and not a FIDE one of any kind.
| Pool | Top | Out of |
|---|---|---|
| Chess.com Bullet derived | Top 60% of that pool | 336,344 |
| Chess.com Blitz derived | Top 60% of that pool | 657,474 |
| Chess.com Rapid derived | Top 55% of that pool | 466,867 |
| Chess.com Classical derived | Top 75% of that pool | 38,941 |
| Lichess Bullet | Top 84.2% of that pool | 336,344 |
| Lichess Blitz | Top 82.1% of that pool | 657,474 |
| Lichess Rapid | Top 75.3% of that pool | 466,867 |
| Lichess Classical | Top 89.2% 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 1,100 actually means
This is the middle of the largest crowd in online chess. The distributions are at their fattest through here, which has an awkward consequence: a hundred rating points is worth less at 1,100 than almost anywhere else, because there are more people packed into every band you have to climb through. Moving up feels slow because it genuinely is.
| To reach | Ratings from | Gain |
|---|---|---|
| Top 50% | from 1,250 | +150 |
| Top 25% | from 1,550 | +450 |
| Top 10% | from 1,800 | +700 |
| Top 5% | from 1,950 | +850 |
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.