Titled players average blitz rating on chess.com

Hey everyone, I was curious what the average chess.com rating for a GM or other titled player is, so I decided to find out! I went to the chess.com section that lists titled players (chess.com/members/titled-players) and chose the first 25 players with each type of open title (GM, IM, FM, CM) with at least 100 blitz games, and then added up their blitz ratings and divided by 25 to get their average ratings. From what I found the average chess.com blitz ratings for titled players are:

Grandmaster (GM): 2739

International Master (IM): 2540

Fide Master (FM): 2376

Candidate Master (CM): 2275

Just thought I'd post this in case anyone else was interested!

Yes, the median blitz ratings are:

Grandmaster (GM): 2743

International Master (IM): 2571

Fide Master (FM): 2480

Candidate Master (CM): 2329

Damn, then I must be IM strength in blitz chess.

What I noticed is that all median are higher for the FM 100 points higher, clearly you are mathematically inclined, what do you attribute this to and what did your findings led you to believe?

I keep misreading titled players as tilted players for some reason.

That's an interesting question, I think it's because for each title there are a few players with extremely low ratings, and that drags down the average. For example there were a few FMs rated below 2000, and a CM rated 1500. When you look at the median instead those outliers have less of an effect. I would guess those very low rated masters are older players who haven't been active in chess for a long time, or they were awarded their titles as junior players for winning tournaments without having to reach the normal rating requirements, so they're lower rated than you'd expect based on their titles. Like Goldenbeer said it's probably more useful to look at the median than the mean average!

why dont you count nms though

Haha sorry didn't mean to leave you guys out. I did the same thing with National Masters and the median NM blitz rating on chess.com is 2318, the mean average rating is 2293.

Ha! Who says national masters are weaker than their fide counterparts!

Thank you for doing this. I've been curious to see where I stacked up to the averages. I would be interested in a larger sample size to see how it compares to your original data.

Interesting data. Thanks for sharing.

hi (no cap)

im a candidate master in blitz !!! =)

pretty lets go, by peak i would be a FM

Kinda not true now days.

The Nms I'm playings are 2280-2380.

The IM are 2310.

The Fms are 2400-2490

The Cms are 2200s-2370s

The WFM aka Anna Cramling are 2300.

Ha I am IM or GM level strength. But I have a perfect streak of beating GMs on chess.com 2 wins and 1 draw

Oof CMs are pathetic by those estimates but some CMs are good I played some CMs that are 2500-2400

Too much youtube