Elometer

1788 😵

But I shouldn't be surprised.

I got 1725 on the chessmaniac test.

I got 1846 and I am a 12 year old who is crap at chess... does this mean I should play more blitz?

Elometer predicted my strength as 1656. I found this to be completely overinflated as I think my real rating is about 1200, 1250 at best. 

Cool idea!

On some of them, the pieces simply didn't move and I ran out of time! Another thing that was the final straw is that you couldn't underpromote.

INTERESTING....I answered 15 questions and then made illegal moves and ran out of time in the rest of them. RATING: 1961!!!

Here's my score. Probably a bit too high. 

I wrote a blog post for those interested. 

Check it out here.

Cool test although results seem off by 100 or so.

-Brendan

 1035 by making obviously illegal moves for all of 76 problem.

I put my skill level at "very skilled".

i got 2019, but my chess.com rating is 1605, but i havent played that many games yet over here

Err, I think you definitely should be if your rating is 1900+ on chess.com. Also, there are 1600's here claiming they got 2000+ which is higher than what several actual 2000's got so clearly something's not right lol 

I scored a 1695. Well above my 1486 rating at the time of taking it. So, I don't know how accurate this thing really is. Although I have not played that many games on here.

I tend to agree with tob1a5 in that this online ELO test is rubbish.

I scored some 200 points over my actual rating as well. Judging from comments, that seems to be the norm. Perhaps they should recalibrate the thing.

The test has too many problems, a lot of people either lose interest or run out of real-life time long before they finish. I would probably have scored higher if I hadn't been rushed towards the end. In any event, this test reminds me of those ubiquitous online IQ tests that invariably score people 50-100 points above where they have any business being. There's a systemic bias at play, of course, since people are much more likely to share flattering results than unflattering ones.

Well, then maybe this test is missing some important elements. Like, maybe in order to guage someone's playing strength accurately, playing through a set of miniatures or even from opening to middle game.

Realistically, the only way to measure accurately, as we all know, is to play a lot of real games against a variety of people.

BramblySpam, I like that, 50-100 IQ pts higher than they have any business being! I suppose there are some rather high-scoring vegetables out there.

I honestly took the test.  Thought carefully about each position and got 2004 with a 95% confidence interval.  Either something is wrong with Elometer, or I do much much better at Elometer than any chess I do at chess.com  Something's fishy...

How can you think carefully when you only have several seconds on the clock? That doesn't add up mate

Recently tried one of those online IQ tests... not the silly ones with riddles but it at least tried to act like an IQ test.

I answered them all wrong and got a score of 110 haha.

Seems they took the timer off and changed / added some puzzles?

I just scored 2299 (!)

This is at least 300 points too high IMO.

Maybe my browser glitched and I had no timer for some reason?

This was also 76 (IIRC) puzzles. I took this test years ago and I don't remember there being that many, so maybe they have changed some things.

I just tried it again (already took it months ago) and no timer appeared for me either. 76 puzzles. 1915.