What percentile is a 1,700 chess rating?
Here is where 1,700 sits in all eleven pools this site measures — both online platforms, every time control, and FIDE’s own rating list.
| Pool | Top | Out of |
|---|---|---|
| Chess.com Bullet derived | Top 20% of that pool | 336,344 |
| Chess.com Blitz derived | Top 15% of that pool | 657,474 |
| Chess.com Rapid derived | Top 10% of that pool | 466,867 |
| Chess.com Classical derived | Top 15% of that pool | 38,941 |
| Lichess Bullet | Top 39.8% of that pool | 336,344 |
| Lichess Blitz | Top 30.5% of that pool | 657,474 |
| Lichess Rapid | Top 23.1% of that pool | 466,867 |
| Lichess Classical | Top 30.3% of that pool | 38,941 |
| FIDE Standard | Top 48.3% of that pool | 219,444 |
| FIDE Rapid | Top 35.5% of that pool | 199,783 |
| FIDE Blitz | Top 44% 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 1,700 actually means
An unremarkable number in a remarkable place: this is where the online distributions start to thin out quickly. Every hundred points from here costs more than the last, and not because chess becomes harder in steps. There are simply fewer people left above you to take rating from, and they give up less of it.
| To reach | Ratings from | Gain |
|---|---|---|
| Top 10% | from 1,800 | +100 |
| Top 5% | from 1,950 | +250 |
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.