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INKOSI

Apr 11, 2020

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#1

If it says your rating is at 90th percentile, however your only at about 1600 blitz, that’s suspicious. Percentile ranking here is highly inflated because it’s not based on active users, but against all user accounts.

However, I do believe a 1:1 percentile relation happens here at chess.com to UCSF. I just don’t know at which point in the progression graph. Thoughts??

Martin_Stahl

Apr 11, 2020

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#2

INKOSI wrote:

If it says your rating is at 90th percentile, however your only at about 1600 blitz, that’s suspicious. Percentile ranking here is highly inflated because it’s not based on active users, but against all user accounts.

However, I do believe a 1:1 percentile relation happens here at chess.com to UCSF. I just don’t know at which point in the progression graph. Thoughts??

Percentile is based in recently active players in the associated category. I believe it is based on activity over the past 90 days. The global leaderboards show the total number of players counted in the pool.

For blitz (from my stats page):

INKOSI

Apr 11, 2020

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#3

1600 is considered USCF intermediate which is incongruent to a 90th percentile. That point in ELO is equal to 1800; a smaller sample, albeit population of more serious players.

So compared to the general population, I’m good but not to those that hold USCF or ELO ratings I suppose.

INKOSI

Apr 11, 2020

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#4

Holdup! Come to think of it, a solid 4.0 NTRP rating in tennis is also considered Intermediate, but generally may only meet a better player 1 out of 10 times.

I am sensing a pattern here...

INKOSI

Apr 11, 2020

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#5

Intermediate is 90th percentile in general population.