How about a Bell Curve?

So here I am competing with people around the world. But no matter what I score I really don't know where I place overall. I mean, a 1000 seems ok compared to the planet, but how many 1800's are out there? Am I in the top 50 or 75 percent?  If chess.com offered a bell curve view of our positions it would tell us much - and be encouraging - my opinion. What do you think?

As a diamond member, they offer me this feature in the stats section. My Live standard rating puts me at the 96.9 percentile of chess.com.

Hmmm. OK thanks. Nice rank!!!!

http://www.chess.com/echess/players

And we see the average club player will be in the 97th %tile for chess.com blitz

Not quite, I don't think that the average club player has a 1900 blitz rating on chess.com?

It gives the rating range 1450-1550 as 46203 players vs the total of 1678736 players.  So that's where I got 97%

But... active players would be, you know... much closer to 50,000 not 1.6 million.

Well, this way you totally ignore the rating range >1550. 

97% of the 1678736 players are either below or _above_ the selected range.

You can check your percentile by flipping open the little arrow next to your rating, on your profile page.

Ah, yes, that is my mistake.

But that only works for online chess.

Well thanks everyone. Now I know how and where to check for my place on here. Guess I didn't really try before. I had just assumed chess.com didn't offer a bell curve. Actually chess.com isn't doing a bad job at all. So my lack of faith must a been caused by the beer.  You all enjoy now - win or lose. It's a game. I think it makes you smarter just playing it. Exercises your brain muscles.