Define Bad Chess player in terms of rating

Title says it all. If you were to say a player is bad, what rating would you give them? 

Um... I'm pretty sure it works the other way around.

Love it when people don't answer the question. 

a rating as abysmal as mine

Hi cmbconcretefire--if you want to go by statistics alone, the average adult club player is around 1600.  So you could say anyone short of that is "below average."  Others might argue for 2200 as a cutoff, since that's the point when someone is assumed to have mastered the game.  Aside from that it's very much in the eye of the beholder.

Ahem-

A bad player, is, at any given time, is someone with a rating less than exactly 200 points below my current rating at any time. Thank you. 

On chess.com it'd be anything lower than 1200 since you get a 1200 just for having a pulse and an IP address.

on chesscube im at 1400 as opposed to my chess.com rating of 1100ish. so 1500 as chesscube's default rate would still be on the low end

One point less than whatever my rating happens to be at the time!

OK. Everybody, don't answer the question!

Ha.Ha. You know, I would think that you might have, maybe, gotten over it... I dunno. 

What? A rating does not define their playing strength.

I see. You obviously didn't! My highest rating is, actually, 1275. How grand. 

(P.S Don't even try to edit your post.)

Ah. Thanks. Here: 

Oh, wow. You don't even look at the people that you accuse.Tracking turned off!

I think this is an interesting question.  While I'm a mediocre player, I'm still good enough to beat all of my friends and family.  Isn't that the most important thing?

I'm not sure. I think it largely depends on where you live - At my chess club in middle-of-nowhere small-town Colorado, there's a rated 1700 who is the one guy that nobody can beat. I still consider myself as being absolutely horrible at chess, especially in comparison to the HUGE online community, but compared to the people in my club I'm at least half-okay.

Thank you to the people who answered the question. I just wanted to get a feel for how bad I suck at this game. For as many years as I have played and liked the game, I have come to the conclusion that I either need to study really hard just to become average... or just accept that I'm not very good at it. Lol. Oh well, I do enjoy the daily puzzles and I enjoy this site a lot. So that's good. 

Well, then there are those who choose to play against much lower rated players, pushing them down further. What's up with those heroes?

Coming from a serial loser with an ever declining rating. 

Chess.com needs a Beginners' Corner!

Oh, come on. You rating doesn't depend on your opponents, only on you