Are chess.com ratings the most accurate?

Are chess.com ratings the most accurate?

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It’s updated and more accurate than ever! We have pulled down a list of players with both chess.com and lichess.org ratings, subset them to only ratings with RD values < 150, and created formulas to convert the ratings. An RD value < 150 means the player is fairly active in that rating category. Each column compares between 55 and 130 players! Thanks Jesse for writing the code to pull down the ratings. There is an additional rating comparison on the chessgoals website showing that chess.com follows very closely to USCF ratings.

CHESS.COM
BLITZ
LICHESS
BLITZ
(+/- 135)
LICHESS
BULLET
(+/- 165)
LICHESS
RAPID
(+/- 135)
LICHESS
CLASSICAL
(+/- 130)
800 1150 1260
900 1225 1365
1000 1300 1225 1365 1460
1100 1380 1305 1455 1550
1150 1415 1340 1500 1590
1200 1455 1380 1540 1630
1250 1495 1420 1580 1670
1300 1530 1460 1620 1710
1350 1570 1495 1660 1745
1400 1610 1535 1700 1780
1450 1645 1575 1735 1810
1500 1685 1615 1770 1845
1550 1725 1650 1805 1870
1600 1760 1690 1840 1900
1650 1800 1730 1870 1925
1700 1840 1770 1905 1950
1750 1875 1805 1935 1975
1800 1915 1845 1960 1995
1850 1955 1885 1990 2015
1900 1990 1925 2015 2035
1950 2030 1960 2040 2050
2000 2070 2000 2065 2065
2100 2145 2080 2110 2090
2200 2220 2155 2150 2110
2300 2300 2235 2190
2400 2375 2310 2220

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