I got to 1100 in rapid in about three months. I got to 1000 in four months. (not a typo)
Headed for 900.
Finally reached 1000. Took around 6 months. How about you?
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Jul 7, 2022
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#63
I created an account
didnt do much with it then
did puzzles
not many real games, mostly with friends
i would say with trying to get higher rating in rapid a few weeks, from account creation way too long
Jul 8, 2022
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#64
publicipo wrote:
I finally got to the 1000 rating.
Which direction were you going... up or down?
I thought I was a 1000-level player; recent matches haven proven this assumption to be utterly false.
But at least I am not a 400 player, anymore …
Jul 10, 2022
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#66
Congrats! It took me about 6 months of consistent playing/studying to hit 1000. Hit me up if you ever want to schedule a longer time format game.
I think it took me around 3 months to get to 1000 in rapid. Created account on nov 2020 and got to 1000 around feb 2021. If i remember correct I did not play so much in nov and dec but I startet to play way way more in jan. I guess I could check game history to check this but I am tired and a bit lazy. I played a little chess as a kid, not at a club only with family and friends but we did not know about the rules like queeside castle and un passant. Started to play online at the age of 35 after watching queen gambit, I remember I had fun with chess as a kid and I see someone I know from an other game, he was streaming and played some chess while waiting for queue time on the other game. And this two things made me want to try to play again so I created an account and now I play a massive amount and got a bit hocked on the game. I replaced my other game with chess. It feels like I make more progress here. The other game was kinda dying a little bit and most players left was really really good.
publicipo wrote:
I finally got to the 1000 rating. I was just curious how others are progressing and how you went about it. For me the first two months was really just creating an account, learning the game and playing. I didn't study anything. Then, I decided I would make an effort to actually learn the game and attempt to improve. For that I still didn't have a great plan. I used YouTube mostly, along with the chess.com lessons and tactics training. It was all a bit haphazard . Now I have a few books and have created somewhat of a study plan to try to keep me on track. I'm hoping the progress will continue but would definitely like to be more efficient if I can. I feel like given the amount of time I spent playing and studying chess over the last 4 months I should be further along. I'm not in any hurry but just genuinely interested in the process of learning the game of chess. I'd like to hear from others about their experiences when starting out as a beginner and how the learning process went for them. I've been documenting my progress via YouTube. I put a link below of the game where I finally broke the 1000 mark. Good luck to all the beginners out there!
Nice. Same here
im 1700 rn and it took me 7.5 months
Sep 17, 2023
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#72
I did study chess a couple of months before starting playing live, my first stable rating was about 1100 rapid at that time. 4 years later it had passed 1500, but never went much higher.
I'm half way there in month 1, but struggling to increase
I started at around 1100 in 2014 (chess.com starting ratings were 1200 at the time), it took me 8 years to get to 2200-2300
At the time of writing, my rating is 752. I have been playing since January and I have reached 752 rapid from 241 in about 8 months.
Sep 18, 2023
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#77
I doubt I will ever reach 1000. I can’t even stay above 400 for more than a week… 😕
So today I reached 1000, started about 2 years ago, and my first rating was around 200. I was 42 at the time, played a lot of blitz in the beginning , I thought "en passant" was a bug in the system 
So many many games and hours of learning a few openings (variants), and a few other openings that those openings may lead to (at least the basics), reducing amount of games played and focusing on 30min rapid, and trying not to blunder, I can now proudly say that I finally today on Christmas eve reached my chess goal , 1000 Elo. (What a nice gift to me self) And for you youngsters, yes the brain slows down, So learn a lot while you are young and keep on adding when you get older.
Now I set a new goal 1250, lets see if I get there.
Dec 23, 2023
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#79
I reached 1305 8 months ago (not exactly 8 months like 8 months and 19 days)
To be honest, it took me about a week to get to 1000. Then it took me like 5 years to get to 1800 lol