Hello everyone, I have been playing a lot more rapid chess in the last two months and at that time I was rated 1903 Rapid and was sitting in the 99.9% percentile. Since then I've played 50+ rapid games and reached a peak rating of 1981 and I was surprised to see my rating percentile drop to 99.6%.
All this to say, it seems that there are significantly more people on Chess.com playing with rapid time controls. Is this what you all are seeing too? I know that Blitz is generally the most popular time control on this site, but is Rapid chess making a comeback? What is causing this?
(Also feel free to share your peak rapid rating and your rating percentile!)
Rapid is the most popular rating pool since it includes 10|0. There are almost 2.5 more players in the Rapid leaderboards than Blitz.
Hello everyone, I have been playing a lot more rapid chess in the last two months and at that time I was rated 1903 Rapid and was sitting in the 99.9% percentile. Since then I've played 50+ rapid games and reached a peak rating of 1981 and I was surprised to see my rating percentile drop to 99.6%.
All this to say, it seems that there are significantly more people on Chess.com playing with rapid time controls. Is this what you all are seeing too? I know that Blitz is generally the most popular time control on this site, but is Rapid chess making a comeback? What is causing this?
(Also feel free to share your peak rapid rating and your rating percentile!)