how long did it take you to get to uscf 1000, uscf 1500, and uscf 2000?

Started at age 13 with a buddy.  We improved quickly because we went to a chess club once a week and did tournaments at least once a month.  Most of our improvement was done over 3-4 years.  Me from 800ish (thanks to playing w dad) to a high of 1913, him from 800ish (mostly thanks to playing w me) to senior master.  

Started at 1500 provisional after my first tournament , took a couple years to break 1800 which is where I stayed. 

started playing at age 8 but got serious at age 11-12. I was rated 1200 at age 12 and now at age 15 I am 2050 elo

Started plaing at 4

1 year to 1700 national, 2 years to 1900, 5 years to 2000 Fide

No offense to anyone, but national ratings under 1000 confuse me. I guess if you started tournament play right after learning the rules... but why would you do that?

Anyway, about 2 years to 1500, I haven't been rated 2000 yet.

In the US not so many play chess seriously enough to get over 1000 strength, so if you learned from your dad, and/or have had 1-3 people to play with, you can easily have played over 50 times over several years and still be below 800 strength (because your playing with people too weak to help you get better).  Heck, I know an 11 year old that has taken lessons for a few years, does tournaments, and is still around 1050 rating.  Anyway, its not uncommon in the US to love chess, but still be well below 1000 strength.  And its very common at larger tournaments to have an under 1000 section.  Sure it may be mostly school ages, but there will be adults.  There just isnt any stigma to it here.  

I am eleven, have been doing lessons for 7 years and have been doing tournaments, My rating is 1047

lol

I would never recomment chess to children age 5-10 years if they don't show talent or quick improvement. It just waste of time. Playing outside sports like basketball/football etc with friends is much better for them. Forget all that chess can teach you crap, there is nothing better than outside world.

There are many parents who force the kid to play chess at so young age... its laughable. They think playing chess will make their kid a lot smarter and successfull in life, they are so wrong.

For example take a look at Saint Louis Youtube channel with all those lessons - How often when you watch a lessons scream shut up kid etc, they just cant pay enough attention and dont have much interest at this dificult game and even if they want to play it they just cant focus enough not to blunder 5 pieces. And even they took lessons and lessons, 2 years later they are all the same level.

I think i was already above 1000 after my vey first 20~ chess games or so. 1500 was not hard. Just playing more and more without real study. Observe how stronger players play, follow general opening principles and check if it is safe after each move, take all the free pieces your opponents give to you and soon you will be close to 1500.

Almost every normal average human being can reach it after enough practice even if they havent really played chess games before.

Have you ever worked with chess paying kids in this age range as a coach or organizer?

yes

Just seems unfair to say after 2 years they are the same level... maybe some of them, but if they enjoy it usually they improve quickly (like you improved quickly... although I don't know what age you were).

i started at 851 uscf preliminary after playing in a scholastic state championship after i'd been playing in my dad's middle school club for a year and a half and was probably somewhere around 100 or 200 when i started. i got to 1000 i think within a year of being rated, so in 2 1/2 years and got to 1500 uscf otb 14 years later/while hitting 1700 uscf online blitz online 7 years later from when i started doing rated. i had some gaps where i didn't play much though and didn't play regular tournaments like many scholastic up and comers do. and ended my scholastic run in 2010 with a 1242 uscf regular and 1437 uscf quick otb. so was close to 15 already at that point but not quite there yet. hitting 16's and 17's and higher otb now and have never hit 2000's, but hit 1906 in online uscf blitz this year 18 years after playing semi consistently since 07'

never did any training or lessons other then self-teaching really since middle school though. and could have gone up probably a lot faster if i had had a coach or regularly studied, but mostly have learned and gotten good by playing/looking at mistakes i make in games and occasionaly doing puzzles. but have logged 200 days of play and 25k+ games to get to where i am at.