Advice for a beginner

900 is pretty good.

Most people can't get to 2500 no matter how long they play. Additionally when you start as late as 18 that's a handicap.

But if you took it very seriously, take lessons, read books, and play in FIDE tournaments, then maybe it's possible after many years.

Probs never... but who knows 

Update: 1150 now!

1150 is still at a level where you are making serious mistakes. 2500? Forget it. This will take an extremely serious level of understanding and learning. Set yourself small targets...get to 1200, then 1250, 1300 etc. The higher you go, the harder it gets. 

Nah don't listen to the haters. Between 3000 and 30000 hours; that's what the research says it takes to achieve mastery in Chess. If you're really smart, and if you practice very efficiently (not just playing games! Not even mostly playing games! Deliberate practice), you may be able to reach mastery in 3000 hours. If you're not so efficient or if it doesn't come so naturally to you, it'll take 30,000 hours of practice. It's just a question of dedication and commitment. At your age, you have the time - if you can sustain the commitment for long enough.

that alright I''m pretty low 

Presumably you have spent 1/2 an hour and are not really smart and don't practice very efficiently... 

@Strangemover Wow, rude, do you feel good about yourself? What purpose did your comment serve other than to inflate your own ego a bit by putting a total stranger down?

@Strangemover It's so hard for me to wrap my head around people like you. Presumably you've got a normal life. Friends, family, job, hobbies. And yet, browsing a thread like this, you see a comment that I guess you disagree with. But your instinct isn't to argue against the logic or facts you find faulty. Instead you take the trouble of opening up my profile and finding information about me, personally, that you can mock. I know there are millions of people like you and I just don't understand it. It's sad. Well, if you wanted to hurt my feelings, success! Victory! Not sure why that was your goal, it seems a sad goal to me, but mission accomplished.

Anyways, yeah, the truth is I have awful memory, no spatial reasoning or visualization, and high impulsivity. So I pretty much never practice, pretty much all I do is play games, and even so, since I was an absolute beginner a few months ago, I'm quite pleased with how I'm progressing.

The advice I gave to the OP is sound. There is no value in setting an unrealistic goal (eg.2500) when it is so far away. Your advice simply says if you have all factors in your favour it can be done in 3000 hrs, if all factors are against you it can still be done, only in 30,000 hrs. This is a nonsense, and also trivialises the amount of hard graft a 2500 rated player has put in to achieve such a rating. Only a tiny %age of players can do it...Yeah, my reply to you was a bit disrespectful, but I'm looking at your 1100 rating and wondering why you feel you can give such false encouragement. 

I was just saying my rating are not good giving other people the idea that they are ot on the losing side I am not a sranger get in my white van I got candy

Update: 1200 now! In April I changed my style from offensive to defensive (playing kings indian all the time etc) and fell from 1150 to 850 lol. I struggled for 3 months in the 800-900s, and then changed my style again to offensive and went from 850 to 1200 in 2 weeks! I wish the best!

Nice progress

why not?

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"my rating right now is about 900 - 930" Any rating below 1500 is a sign of frequent blunders. Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it.
"With daily practice how much time you think it will take me to reach 2500?" ++ We now have 12 year old grandmasters, so it took them about 7 years. If you are older then it does not get easier.

many people dedicate their lives to chess and do not reach 2500, a good goal would be 1500 in a year , that is possible.

I think he meant offense when mentioning king's indian