Why is a live chess rating of 1200 high in percentile? - Chess Forums

A live chess rating of 1200 has a high percentile of 70% to 80%, Why? A daily rating of 1200 is not very high percentile, a daily 960 rating of 1200 is below 50% in percentile? Maybe smaller world record rating means higher average rating.

Why does everyone think that an average chess player is rated 1200? I mean on chess.com 1112 is in the 79.5 percentile and people here are writing misleading answers saying 50th percentile. - Quora

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Chess.com tells me that I'm in the top 75th percentile in rapid chess with an ELO of 1050, but from what I hear in the chess community 1050 is basically a noob

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How To Learn Chess As An Adult (or, how I went from 300 to 1500 ELO in 9 months) — Alex Crompton

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How does percentile work? - Chess Forums

what level of accuracy should a 1300 player get on average? - Chess Forums

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Rochester Chess Club Blog: The Vast Range of Chess Players

Chess.com percentile rankings help. The numbers don't make sense. 2.3% means 90% are better than me. But the average rating is 662 and bell curve suggest top 10% for sure. : r/chess

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