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Dracula2512
I tried to ask this from chess.com and always got absurd answers.

Does anyone know the significance of “Percentile” which is at the top right corner of the “Stats” section of this phone app?

It shows 64.2 for me what does that even mean in the context of the matches I played
notmtwain
Dracula2512 wrote:
I tried to ask this from chess.com and always got absurd answers.

Does anyone know the significance of “Percentile” which is at the top right corner of the “Stats” section of this phone app?

It shows 64.2 for me what does that even mean in the context of the matches I played

(1,984,213-700,699)/1,984,213=64.7%

There are close to 2 million rated blitz players here.

Your rating is higher than about 700 thousand of them.

You are higher ranked today than 64.7% of the blitz players here.