whats the average?

If you've been playing seriously for a year, I'd be impressed with anything 1400+, assuming you barely knew how the pieces moved when you started.

1400 FIDE, that is.

But even if you make 1200 official, that's still decent progress for one year.

Most people start serious chess with an ability of at least 1000 I'd say. Then I would be impressed with 1600-1800+ in a year, but more realistically for many it would be 1400 or less after a year.

thank you so much!!! and yes I have been playing seriously for one year now I'm about 1560 (chess.com) and climbing! idk about fide!!

there aren't many fide tournaments around where I live

Yeah, depends on where you "start"

Some people literally start with learning how the pieces move. Other people played with family and friends while growing up, so they weren't 100% beginners when they decided to start taking it seriously.

1500 chess.com blitz after 1 year is pretty impressive either way.

For me "seriously" didn't mean I had some kind of structured study... or any study at all. It just meant I realized I really liked chess, and wanted to play every day and try to learn something new every day.

I think of it as an attitude more than an hours per week thing.

The average online player also doesn't stalk his opponents after losing to them (deromanderp)

on average I play about 5-20, 10 minute games a day I've become quite addicted to chess lol I play it in school, at home, with friends, literally almost all the time and when I started a year ago I barely knew how the prices moved or any of the special rules to chess I've just dedicated myself to playing and got better

I started a year ago at about 600-700

I went down to 800-900 on chess.com when I first started playing. Or it could even have been 700 - I don't remember clearly.