What percentile is a 2,300 chess rating?
Here is where 2,300 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 5.5% of that pool | 336,344 |
| Lichess Blitz | Top 1.6% of that pool | 657,474 |
| Lichess Rapid | Top 0.6% of that pool | 466,867 |
| Lichess Classical | Top 0.4% of that pool | 38,941 |
| FIDE Standard | Top 1.7% of that pool | 219,444 |
| FIDE Rapid | Top 1.1% of that pool | 199,783 |
| FIDE Blitz | Top 1.7% 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 2,300 actually means
2,300 is FIDE Master territory — the title needs a 2,300 peak alongside its norms. Online it puts you in a fraction of one per cent of accounts. Those two facts are less related than they look: the online pools contain everybody who ever signed up, while FIDE’s list contains only people who play rated chess over the board.
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.