The maximum number of games played on Lichess in one day

I’ve played 501 once
https://lichess.org/tournament/summer24/#241

my is like between 450-500 games

In a day i have played almost 600, but in a row i have 350 or something. Its not really rare unless its 1000+ tbh

Idk maybe @german11

@Kelina said in #7:

I played the most games on lichess.org/tournament/spring25 . 25 games!
ahahahahahaha

Maybe the 24 hour Marathons are the maximum.
https://lichess.org/tournament/history/marathon

https://lichess.org/tournament/summer24 800+ games in first place

Sorted by number of games in 24 hours. Seperated by comma. Copy/paste it in a spreadsheet or in notepad and save as marathon_data.csv

The most number of Marathon games played in 24 hours is 540478 games. It was in 2021 Summer Marathon @PaSHaSaltanov11

Tournament Name,Average rating,Games played,Moves played,White wins,Black wins,Draw rate,Berserk rate
2021 Summer Marathon,1654,540478,37958663,49%,47%,4%,7%
2022 Summer Marathon,1717,533333,37872077,49%,47%,4%,7%
2023 Summer Marathon,1747,492174,35102034,49%,47%,4%,7%
2024 Summer Marathon,1792,465681,33331143,49%,47%,4%,7%
2020 Summer Marathon,1669,445386,31222745,49%,47%,4%,7%
2021 Winter Marathon,1763,395156,27950266,49%,46%,5%,18%
2023 Spring Marathon,1693,354679,25635294,49%,46%,5%,16%
2020 Winter Marathon,1606,335764,23305861,49%,46%,5%,12%
2022 Winter Marathon,1742,329894,23636874,49%,46%,5%,20%
2023 Winter Marathon,1745,324937,23533490,49%,46%,5%,22%
2024 Winter Marathon,1720,302948,21886996,49%,46%,5%,22%
2020 Spring Marathon,1695,295368,20733300,49%,46%,5%,10%
2022 Spring Marathon,1676,291174,20542144,49%,46%,5%,12%
2021 Spring Marathon,1662,279618,19165170,49%,46%,5%,28%
2020 Autumn Marathon,1706,252259,17736096,49%,46%,5%,18%
2021 Autumn Marathon,1733,237799,16194439,49%,46%,5%,15%
2024 Autumn Marathon,1755,219733,15643941,49%,46%,5%,12%
2022 Autumn Marathon,1733,218702,15484603,49%,46%,5%,29%
2024 Spring Marathon,1713,204887,14587923,49%,46%,5%,34%
2023 Autumn Marathon,1728,191512,13433581,49%,46%,5%,17%
2025 Spring Marathon,1696,189867,13482523,49%,46%,5%,33%
2019 Spring Marathon,1584,135956,9503790,49%,46%,5%,15%
2019 Winter Marathon,1713,120388,8445970,49%,46%,5%,10%
2018 Winter Marathon,1579,120200,8291477,49%,46%,5%,11%
2019 Summer Marathon,1634,116674,8293564,49%,46%,5%,23%
2019 Autumn Marathon,1710,109113,7628448,49%,46%,5%,11%
2018 Summer Marathon,1642,107897,7649544,49%,46%,5%,13%
2017 Summer Marathon,1695,99486,7042287,49%,46%,5%,12%
2018 Spring Marathon,1616,87091,6108274,49%,46%,5%,22%
2018 Autumn Marathon,1604,87067,6072510,49%,47%,5%,21%
2017 Autumn Marathon,1665,70516,4888663,49%,46%,5%,10%
2017 Spring Marathon,1667,69732,4766444,49%,46%,5%,9%
2016/2017 Winter Marathon,1679,69159,4733008,49%,46%,5%,9%
2017 Winter Marathon,1620,68641,4648888,48%,46%,6%,17%
2016 Summer Marathon,1707,53657,3712717,48%,46%,5%,16%
2015 Autumn Marathon,1632,51804,3538693,49%,47%,4%,12%
2016 Autumn Marathon,1702,44705,3050587,48%,46%,5%,9%
2016 Spring Marathon,1706,43343,2983484,49%,46%,5%,19%
2015 Winter Marathon,1608,40241,2635848,48%,47%,5%,8%
2015 Summer Marathon,1572,35398,2059700,46%,50%,4%,13%

Ig it is around 400 games...!!

In that same 2021 marathon day, there were others that were playing on lichess in other tournaments and so that marathon quantity is not peak of that day.
https://lichess.org/recap

1,825,000,000 games played on lichess in 2024

Games played in 24 hours would be:

1,825,000,000 games / 365 days ÷ 24 hours = 208,333.33

Averages out to 208333 games in 24 hours, which is less than the 2021 Summer Marathon.