How many games does it take to become officially rated?

How many games does it take to become officially rated? 

I played my first official USCF tourney. My rating from my tournament was 946. I placed 5th out of 16, and came out with the highest rating out of the U1000

The score was out of 4. How many games do I have to play to get a standard rating that doesn't fluctuate based on wins/losses?

Your USCF rating will always fluctuate with wins and losses. You need 4 games to have an official rating (next month) and you need 25 games to come out of "provisional" rating.

Okay, thanks so much.

Like 6 or 7

mybad I’m sorry I had to.

anyways good luck! Ur journey is only beginning

Publishable - four

Established rather than provisional - 26 including at least one non-win and at least one non-loss. I have seen players starting with 43 losses and still provisional.

does USCF rating gain slow down? I can still go up like 70 from a good tourney at 1534 or down 70 from a really bad one.

I registered for USCF membership last week and played my first OTB this past Saturday. The director of the tournament said they would update USCF via MUIR when they can. My rating hasn't posted yet, but I'm curious because some of the other players were rated and I did pretty well. I thought I read 8 games to get out of provisional, but I could be wrong. The tournament I played was a double round robin with 18 players, so 9 games, 2 games vs each player, once as white, then black pieces.

I've been using my tablet to play in the tournaments the past couple of weeks. For some reason when I move the tablet and the screen goes horizonal depending on how I turn the tablet, this system considers me to have gone offline and then I miss one of the games. I'll try again this Saturday afternoon and hopefully I won't move my tablet oddly so I get kicked out of the tournament for a session or two.

@RapidfireJr - your tablet has a setting you can disable to stop that rotation no matter how you move the tablet. check online and im sure you'll find it under a search for rotate, or orientation, then you can disable it. usually you can pull the settings menu by dragging your finger from the top of the screen and in that menu there are options like disable sound, enable airplane mode, and there should be one to turn on and off rotation of the screen. gl

What are the requirements for a rating floor

US Chess applies rating floors for the following reasons.

1) If you achieve a highest established rating of at least 1400 then your rating floor is 200 less than your highest rating with the last two digits changed to 00. With the additional proviso that 2100 is the highest such rating floor. Thus 1200 through 2100. A peak of 1535 gives a rating floor of 1300. A peak of 1900 gives a rating floor of 1700. A peak of 2523 gives a rating floor of 2100.

2) If you win a ratings limited prize of $4,000 or more then your rating floor will be set to the lowest multiple of 100 that would make you ineligible for such a prize in the future. Winning such a U1600 prize gives a rating floor of 1600. Winning such a U1750 prize gives a rating floor of 1800. Such floors could be higher than any rating achieved yet.

3) If you play a total of at least 300 games in tournaments where your rating started and ended at 2200 or more then you get the Original Life Master title and a rating floor of 2200.

4) There is an absolute floor of 100. Add 4 for each win, 2 for each loss and 1 for each tournament of 4+ rounds - with the proviso that such adds cannot exceed 150. A player with 43 losses and 8 tournaments of 4+ rounds has an absolute floor of 108. A player with 3 wins, 2 draws and 4 tournaments of 4+ rounds has an absolute floor of 120. A player with many wins, draws and tournaments with a peak rating of 1369 has an absolute floor of 150.