What percentile is a 1,300 chess rating?
Here is where 1,300 sits in every pool this site measures. There is no FIDE row: FIDE has issued no rating below 1,400 since 2022, so 1,300 is an online rating and not a FIDE one of any kind.
| Pool | Top | Out of |
|---|---|---|
| Chess.com Bullet derived | Top 45% of that pool | 336,344 |
| Chess.com Blitz derived | Top 45% of that pool | 657,474 |
| Chess.com Rapid derived | Top 40% of that pool | 466,867 |
| Chess.com Classical derived | Top 55% of that pool | 38,941 |
| Lichess Bullet | Top 70.8% of that pool | 336,344 |
| Lichess Blitz | Top 66.7% of that pool | 657,474 |
| Lichess Rapid | Top 58.5% of that pool | 466,867 |
| Lichess Classical | Top 74.8% 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 1,300 actually means
Openings start to matter around here and mostly still do not. Games are decided in the middlegame by tactics, and the hours spent memorising a repertoire would nearly always buy more rating if they were spent on not hanging pieces instead. The band below this is what the USCF calls Class D.
| To reach | Ratings from | Gain |
|---|---|---|
| Top 25% | from 1,550 | +250 |
| Top 10% | from 1,800 | +500 |
| Top 5% | from 1,950 | +650 |
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.
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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.