Puzzles (Tactics) Percentile

The Puzzles feature (formerly known as Tactics) is a good metric of a player's ability and a score is assigned based on performance just like the player has a score for Daily/Rapid etc.

But with Puzzles there is no indicator of where in the percentile range a player lies so we don't really know how good any given Puzzles score really is in terms of relative strength.

It would be good if percentiles were also published for Puzzles ranking as well as other rankings such as Daily/Rapid etc.

Not sure what you mean, here.  I think you're referring to the Puzzles section, and specifically the Rated Training Puzzles.

If so, each member's success (or failure) can be viewed for the last 30, 60, 90 days. (even 1 year)

If you click on the Full Stats (light grey type, word-icon) you can see each member's current rating, the total number of puzzles they have attempted, the number they succeeded on, the number they failed on, how their rating has climbed in the last 25 puzzles they have tried, the ratings of those individual puzzles they attempted, even the board of each puzzle can be glimpsed.

And for all of this detail, an overall Percentile is given.  [Chess dot com only has so much memory afforded to their site, so this is very comprehensive detail for each member, to show their standings.]

I'm really enjoying my progress, btw.  If I get all 45 of my next Rated Training Puzzles correct, I will climb to a 74 Percentile Correct standing, and if I go on to get another 61 Correct, without one single Fail, my percentile goal will be reached:  75% Correct.  Assuming 4 points for each puzzle, 106 needed, my score may improve to 2737.  That would be really something, imho.  Hoping to get there at a rate of one puzzle every two days, and that would mean sometime in September.  Once at the 75% level, then all I have to do is get 3 out of 4 Correct from then on.  Fairly certain I can accomplish that.

I had correspondence with the Admin on this site, recently, about the Puzzles and the following was stated, verbatim:

"The thing is, I learned in talking to the team that we are actually pretty soon going to overhaul/remake the stats entirely."

So, we'll see what comes of their efforts.

Thanks for the response Bob and the comments from Admin.

If I look at your Puzzles profile page then I see you have a score of 2345 (very impressive) and you have Friends #3 of 8

If I look at your Rapid I see you have a current score of 1254 and Friends #4 of 8 but I also see that you are globally number 257,516 out of a total of 1,171,487 which gives you a percentile of 78%

The rank number and percentile are displayed for your Rapid but not for your Puzzles.

I don't understand what you mean when you say that your Puzzles rank and percentile are displayed. Where are they displayed?

+1, I'd find this information useful, too.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/tactics-trainer-rating-and-percentile

thanks

There used to be a way to look at your performance for each puzzle type; for example, skewers 75%, pins 80%, double attack 70% etc. Good to see which puzzles you have the most trouble with.  Does this service still exist? Thanks.

Hmm

Puzzles > Custom and that page will show your percentages based on the tags.

Thank you Martin! Found it!

I do puzzles one after another back to back to build my focus and concentration.  My hope is that I will see each move as a puzzle outside the opening.  It's the focus I'm after.  Someone said puzzles are not a good indicator of player strength b/c you know to look for something.  The point of puzzles, doing them one after another, is to teach you to look for the weakness on every move!  My puzzle rating is 2323.  Man it really dings you in a hurry if you fail at them.  

You can see your puzzle ranking percentile on the iOS app if you click on your profile and then the puzzle tab.  Here is what it looks like on my phone.

^Cool, thank you

3 years after starting this thread I can see my puzzles percentile

It shows on the Android app too.

Bit tricky to find

>App>More>Profile>All Stats>Puzzles (bottom centre tile)

Cool, but why did the developers never make this info available on the website?

If you go to your friends ranking, there is data in normal distribution form:

The total number of players here is different that the total number of people actually ranked I guess, which is weird ~33 million instead of ~10 million...

I guess maybe the "Total Players" stat is only for people who have actually attempted puzzles? In any case, I can't measure percentile from that number, I have to go from the sum of the data points in the actual bins, which is 33,919,569 here on December 12th, 2025.

Here are my results (the number being your maximum possible rank):