What percentile is a 2,200 chess rating?
Here is where 2,200 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 5% of that pool | 336,344 |
| Chess.com Blitz derived | Top 5% or better | 657,474 |
| Chess.com Rapid derived | Top 5% or better | 466,867 |
| Chess.com Classical derived | Top 5% or better | 38,941 |
| Lichess Bullet | Top 8.8% of that pool | 336,344 |
| Lichess Blitz | Top 3.2% of that pool | 657,474 |
| Lichess Rapid | Top 1.4% of that pool | 466,867 |
| Lichess Classical | Top 1.3% of that pool | 38,941 |
| FIDE Standard | Top 3.5% of that pool | 219,444 |
| FIDE Rapid | Top 2.2% of that pool | 199,783 |
| FIDE Blitz | Top 3.4% 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 2,200 actually means
2,200 is the first rating that buys a title. FIDE’s Candidate Master requires a 2,200 peak, and the USCF has called 2,200 "master" for decades. This is the point at which a rating stops describing how you do at your club and starts describing you to people who have never met you.
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.