Why is my Over the board rating much lower than Chess.com

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sho16

In chess.com I have a slow rating of about 1600 while in USCF (im from us) I have about 1250. WHY IS THIS!!!!! happy.png

sho16

I get that but the thing is that Im 400 points higher in chess.com is that normal or like what? happy.png sad.png

Airyaydayway

It is. For a time it was believed the German ratings were quite a bit higher than the Dutch ones. In other words it was not that hard for Dutch players to play people rated quite a bit higher, at least on the club level. You can find other examples like that. In a club people are always playing each other, so they must have some rating. Same goes for people in another club. However, you have no idea if the club champion of club A would always draw champion B, even if they have the exact same rating on paper. This is of course extremely unlikely. You can't know if the one champion is stronger than the other if they never played each other. The same applies to much larger rating pools. 400 rating points IS a lot, but actually I think I can get a few hundred points above my OTB rating also. In slow chess you actually CAN play pretty good moves, as long as you take your time.

tooWEAKtooSL0W

Different rating pools. My bullet is 1500 higher than my uscf

LumberJack2022
My chess.com blitz rating is about 700 points higher than my USCF blitz rating... check my profile to see how sad it is...
CookedQueen

It depends. Assuming you are not cheating here to inflate your rating (you don't cheat, do you??) the answer is easy and UtrectumsRose already had the best answer. Often one can read that the rating here is little inflated compared to OTB-Rating. So you are NO exception.