What is a good LiChess Rapid Rating?

@UnSospiro123lol you are a strong club player.
Try reaching 2200+ in rapid here. It is a strong rating, because elite arenas (although they are for blitz and bullet) on lichess allow only 2200+ players to play there.
And what I recommend is start playing classical chess (totoise symbol) to learn chess efficiently. Slow chess is important for improving rating.

Good rating = your rating + 200

@Sarg0n said in #32:
> Good rating = your rating + 200
Thx for telling!

@UnSospiro123lol said in #29:
> I don`t get what this means, can you put it in terms of about a 9-12 year old?

This means that everyone has a different opinion about what a good rating is.

For someone who just began to play chess and barely knows how the pieces move a rating of 1200 might be an exceptionally good rating. You have a Rapid rating of 1800, so in your eyes 2000 probably is a good rating. For me 2250 is a good Rapid rating. But then ask Magnus Carlsen if one of those ratings are good.

Thus my word that it is always your own rating plus 200 points.

@Katzenschinken said in #34:
> This means that everyone has a different opinion about what a good rating is.
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> For someone who just began to play chess and barely knows how the pieces move a rating of 1200 might be an exceptionally good rating. You have a Rapid rating of 1800, so in your eyes 2000 probably is a good rating. For me 2250 is a good Rapid rating. But then ask Magnus Carlsen if one of those ratings are good.
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> Thus my word that it is always your own rating plus 200 points.

Haha! Magnus: 3000 is a good rating lol
Thanks for telling that there is know "good rating" there are only goals that you can try achieving!

@Sarg0n said in #32:
> Good rating = your rating + 200
that's actually true ngl. I'm currently rated 2320 in rapid and I feel as bad as ever and I'm ashamed of my actual level of play. To me a good chess player would be rated around 2500

@UnSospiro123lol said in #1:
> Hello! I wanted to know what you consider a "Good at Chess" Rapid LiChess Rating for Someone has been playing for 4 months (Me). As an 1800 I want to know you opinions and hit those Goals!
I'll never understand this type of questions. Numbers have been invented, because words are far too inprecise in many cases, and everybody has a different understanding of words like "good", "many", "strong", whatever.
So be happy to have precise number telling you how good you are. It contains much more and better information than any words of any colloquial language.

Another way to compare strength is to see where you stand on the percentage graph.
Currently, 1800 is better than 75% of Lichess players whereas 2025 is 90%, the top 10% of competitors.
If you are ambitious, then you might be looking to get into the top 5%.

1800 in 4 months is too good !

I Got to 2000 in around a year and 1 month
For me a good rating is 2250+