How good is 800 elo player

and also I'm not allowed to give my opinion on this topic because people get offended usually

Nah my OTB is not 2000 yet. Expert is 2000

Damn the owner of this post was last online in 2022, crazy to think about that

According to the stats on the site, they should be better than 3/4 (75%) of the players in chess.com

800s are better than 100% of the general population (rounded up)

They're better than 75% of the cc playerbase

They're probably better than 7% of OTB players I'd guess

I've had games against 500 elo (when I was at that elo) where there would be no hanging piece, you expect those to happen and they just don't. The outcome of the game comes down to a single exchange that puts one of the player at a slight positional advantage (which reveals itself a few moves down the line, which none of the players could have predicted, so it's basically luck, a gamble...).

And I've had games against 750+ where they would hang a piece after a few moves, and resign.

I think the way it is now on chess.com, you have 500 elo players who have clearly played chess a lot before and are just on their way up (they'll be 1000 in a month). They aren't bad. And you've got 800 elo players who will move their queen, unprotected, in front of your queen to attack it.