What percentile is a ⁦1,500⁩ chess rating?

Here is where ⁦1,500⁩ sits in all eleven pools this site measures — both online platforms, every time control, and FIDE’s own rating list.

⁦1,500⁩, pool by pool
Pool	Top	Out of
Chess.com Bullet derived	Top ⁦30⁩% of that pool	⁦336,344⁩
Chess.com Blitz derived	Top ⁦30⁩% of that pool	⁦657,474⁩
Chess.com Rapid derived	Top ⁦25⁩% of that pool	⁦466,867⁩
Chess.com Classical derived	Top ⁦35⁩% of that pool	⁦38,941⁩
Lichess Bullet	Top ⁦55.6⁩% of that pool	⁦336,344⁩
Lichess Blitz	Top ⁦48.7⁩% of that pool	⁦657,474⁩
Lichess Rapid	Top ⁦40.5⁩% of that pool	⁦466,867⁩
Lichess Classical	Top ⁦54.3⁩% of that pool	⁦38,941⁩
FIDE Standard	Top ⁦83.1⁩% of that pool	⁦219,444⁩
FIDE Rapid	Top ⁦73.9⁩% of that pool	⁦199,783⁩
FIDE Blitz	Top ⁦80.2⁩% of that pool	⁦119,536⁩

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 ⁦1,500⁩ actually means

1,500 is the number people mean when they say "decent club player", and it is the most searched-for rating there is. Its real position depends entirely on which pool you are in: the same 1,500 is a different achievement on Chess.com, on Lichess and on FIDE’s list, and the distance between those three is larger than the distance from 1,500 to 1,700 within any one of them.

What the next rungs cost
To reach	Ratings from	Gain
Top 25%	from ⁦1,550⁩	+50
Top 10%	from ⁦1,800⁩	+300
Top 5%	from ⁦1,950⁩	+450

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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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.

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