uscf vs chess.com ratings

Is there a good conversion from uscf ratings to the live chess/correspondence chess ratings on this site? Just wanting to get an idea of how strong people are.

There is no way to converte, because correspondence and otb is a very different thing.

Play some tournements and find out, how good you are.

Yes. Try this handy little conversion formula:    9/5 (USCF) + 32 = chess.com

Its been 2 months and still nobody has a formula... I tried it batgirl but all I got was the temperature outside in fahrenheit.

USCF = 100 + (c*4) - 3* (c-50) +50

where c is your chess.com rating

There really isn't a formula because the methods of play are (or can be) significantly different from play on the site and OTB tournaments. The closest you are likely to come are Live ratings at longer time controls.

In online correspondence, you have a number of factors that can contribute to ratings either being inflated over OTB, possibly similar, or even lower; I've noticed the first a lot, the second occasionally and the latter I haven't really paid attention to.

Here, some people use books and databases along with studying many of their positions for a significant amount of time (longer than can be done in most OTB time controls). Some of these types of players will have a large difference between their OTB ratings and the Chess.com ratings (mine is around 600 points higher here currently). I'm not consistently using the resources I can and sometimes still move too quickly (from the time I start looking at a position until I make my move) so it could potentially be higher (I've had a couple of games recently where I have squandered winning positions )

Then you have some people that play online no differently than they would OTB. These players might have ratings more in line with an OTB rating. Some play online, just like a quick/blitz style. Come on, quickly glance at the position and make their move.

Those factors, among many others I'm sure (e.g. staying up late, sobriety, distractions, etc) make it really hard to come up with any kind of accurate conversion. Then you also have the fact the the pool of players is different than the pool of players playing OTB chess at USCF tournaments which will impact the rating differences.

Your profile says you have a USCF rating so why do you need a conversion formula ?  

I'd say the difference tightens up a bit at the higher ratings, but its around 400 points for lumber chuckers like me.

Thanks Martin that makes sense.

I mentally go with USCF=chess.com-(x) where x can vary from 300 to 900.

Here's a coincidental formula that works for me.

I'm rated ~1816 on chess.com and I'm in the 94th percentile. I'm rated ~1601 USCF and I'm in the 81st percentile. So I'm 13 percent "better" online. Sure enough, 13% more than 1601 is 1809, 1.13 * 1601 = 1809.13, which is a pretty good estimate =P

bad girl its formula to convert celcius degrees to fahrenheit

For grins, here's my not-so-scientific, limited-in-scope, sure-to-be-scoffed-at look at such a comparison.

Interesting. By that formula I would be around 1187 or so in Standard USCF. But I've only played 15 minute standard games though here.

Here I'm 1365 Standard 15min, 1207 Blitz 10min, 877 Bullet 1 and 2 minute. The faster it goes the worse I am.

More scientific than batgirl's anyway :)

my standard rating on chess.com is around 1600, my uscf is around 1800. I've played less than 10 uscf games though. sorry for being very late, but whatever

No.