Should i like my 1550 Blitz Rating

I always look at my percentile rather than my rating. Rating levels are arbitrary as they are dependent on the initial rating assigned to provisional players ( this is 1500 at lichess ).

The percentile gives you a clear picture where you are within the pool of players. If I only looked at my ratings I could falsely think that I'm a reasonable bullet player. However I know, that bullet is my weakness, and if I look at the percentile, it tells a different story than the rating: it is much worse, than my percentile with nearly equal rating in blitz and even much worse than in standard.

Also percentiles are more comparable across pools. I know for example that despite completely different ratings my percentiles here are almost identical to those reached back at chess.com.

Now, that the site was down a few times I played a few games at chess.com. It turns out that chess.com now allows provisional players to choose their initial rating, which introduced a big inflation to ratings. When I finished a year ago playing there, I had to fight for an above 1700 standard rating on my heels. In the recently played seven or so games I rose more than 100 points. This is not because I become a stronger player, but because of rating inflation. Even this more than 100 points rise was bearly enough to get back my percentile where it was a year ago.

All in all don't care about the rating, but look closely at the percentile.

@ kingscrusher-fan An arrogant player is a true loser for he does not realize the point of the game is not in winning but strengthening your abilities and getting to know your opponent. And I'm not saying this to be sore and discouraging. You are a great player and I respect your effort and I honestly am horrid at chess. But that doesn't change the fact that arrogance and being rude to other players doesn't help the cause and it is truly not about winning

I am on my other computer. kingcrusher-fan here.

@casualr

You look at how many percentage of your games you have won? But it depends on your oppenents. You can for example play only against weaker players.

Percentile means what percent of players you are better than. It used to be the case that lichess did not provide percentile information. In my forum posts I strongly suggested that lichess introduced this feature. Finally it has been done, which I highly welcome. Now in the Community / Rating stats link you can view the rating distribution, your rating within this distribution and the cumulative, this is what percentile of players a certain rating is better than. You can observe that the shape of the bullet distribution is different, it does not fall off that quickly, there are many players with high ratings, this is the reason that for nearly the same rating your percentile can be substantially different in bullet than in standard ( which is much more a regular bell curve ).

#13 you have TWO accounts? Is that allowed? :O Why would you have more than one account?

My current rating fluctuates between 2000 and 2100 (at blitz). That's after playing chess for several years, and I'm pretty happy with it as it's much higher than I thought it would ever be when I started playing. However I definitely want to improve on it, and my New Year's resolution is to achieve a 2200 rating in 2016 :)

@15

Yes. I started a youtube channel and therefore i had the feeling to have a privat channel and a youtube lichess account, where i upload every game..Well maybe i will stop it and delete this account

my rating is a number that helps me to find players that are around my skill, in order to produce a game in which both parties have maximum fun; this happens more often when similar skilled enemies meet.

The above is true.

This is why you look at your percentile if you wonder what status you occupy among all players rather than your rating, the absolute level of which conveys no meaning.

Ranking is a tricky thing because being No. 10. sounds a good ranking, but it makes a difference whether you are 10th among 20 players or 20.000 players ( percentiles 50% and 99.95% respectively ).

So the best measure of your status is the percentile.

You can argue that even percentiles are not comparable across pools, but in reality the pools of large popular sites are not that different and, as I said, my percentiles are nearly the same at the two major ones.

im 1800 and think i stink. on other sites im much lower (ab out 200 pts). it all depends on the pool of players you are in. if you were in a club with all grandmasters except you, your rating would be in single digits. If your club were all beginners you would have a grandmaster rating. in Lichess you are somewhere inbetween. anyway ratings are overrated. go over your games on analysis, and if you see alot of stupid errors (as i do allthetime) don't be satisfied. try to make the best moves in alotted time. don't play hope chess, study and play over the biggies all the way back to morphy and before and be happy just playing as opposed to robbing banks or taking drugs or bowling.