How do I check my chess ELO?

Also is 141 a good score for rapid

chess.com uses glicko ratings, not elo (but they are almost identical). You find your accurate rating by playing many rated chess games until you feel like your rating has stabilized somewhat; this is your current rating. 

141 is a starting point if that is where you are at; everyone begins somewhere. However a rough estimate is that 1000 rating or below is more "beginner" realm. 1500 an estimate for more intermediate and 2000 an estimate for more advanced; anything higher is much more advanced. These are guidelines though. The chess.com average rapid rating fluctuates some over the years, but it is roughly 1100 rating. Around this level, you are better than about half of all active chess accounts on here.

Thanks for the reply. Also do we get seperate ratings for every type of chess we play? which rating is the main overall ranking if there is one?

Which type of chess games should i play if i want to be a future GM

(Bullet pointed responses to make clarification easier)

- No problem replying; happy to help

- Yes, there are separate ratings based on time control. In "live chess" there are Rapid, Blitz and Bullet categories. There is also a different category for variants and for Daily chess. 

Generally speaking, it is better to play longer time control games (rapid) when you want to improve your overall chess understanding; this way you can think through your moves without feeling rushed. Live chess on chess.com: 10 min games or longer are considered "Rapid" and statistically the most popular time control played by far are 10 min games; that means the game could potentially take up to 20 minutes because that is 10 minutes per player to complete all of their moves; if they run out of time they usually lose on time (few rule exceptions might cause a draw if you run out of time instead such as "insufficient material"). 

Seeking chess improvement, I recommend playing 10 min games or longer mostly (rapid), but if you still feel rushed with this time control, then play an even longer amount that you are more comfortable with.

- There is no "main" time control and typically players player all of them occasionally but focus on a particular time control for a while and then may or may not switch to a different "main" time control. Statistically, 10 min chess is the most popular, so I guess by default most chess.com members "main" rapid.

- As mentioned above, generally longer time controls are preferred for chess improvement. The main thing isn't so much how "long" this is or not, but more important that you don't feel rushed and you have time to think through your moves and consider other options mid-game.

-oh okay, makes sense. I will definitely try all time controls, and see what im most comfortable with. Also makes sense longer time controls means more improvement and more time thinking. 

Great advice

how do i see my elo

117 is your current rapid chess.com rating; you can view rating on the stats page or the right of your chess.com profile.

why is my elo not showing up next to my name in live games?

You have to play at least 5 chess games for your rating to display on live games.

what is "ELO"

ELO chess players often use interchangeably with "chess rating" even though chess.com actually uses glicko ratings and not ELO. Here is Wikipedia's page for ELO ratings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

You can view your chess.com ratings by going to your chess.com profile and viewing the Stats section. At the time of me reading this post, your rapid rating on chess.com is 205.

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how do i see my elo

Read my post which is currently post #9 in this thread.

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Still not answered the Q here. Which of all the game type ratings is regarded as ones standard ELO? When someone says my ELO is XYZ, which measure is it assumed they will be referring to? Thank you

You can check your chess.com ratings by viewing your chess.com profile (stats shown on the right of the screen), or by going to the stats page directly (with more statistics than just ratings).

All of these ratings are ratings for that time control; you will probably have different ratings for bullet, blitz, rapid and so on. There is no "standard elo" (time control) because different people focus on certain time controls more than others (maybe one person plays blitz a lot and someone else plays rapid a lot and so on), but 10 min games are considered rapid on chess.com and this is the most popular time control on chess.com, so I guess "rapid" is closest to "standard."

Also, "ELO" is often used interchangeably with "rating" in chess, but chess.com actually uses the glicko 2.0 rating system and not the elo rating system (although both are super similar).

if thats the case how come i'm around 1100 but have 85 percentile

@chekagain This is because the "average" (meaning 50 percentile) is barely scratching the surface of just how much chess there is to learn; it certainly is way more than half of chess left to understand. Chess is a complicated game which has so much to learn. I've been playing chess on chess.com for about 6.5 years and I'm still learning a lot!

Someone with a rating of 1100 can be 85 percentile because they know more (knowledge or ability) than most players, but most players also don't know that much when it comes to the many concepts left to learn.

Real "positional chess" is one example of something that most chess players under 1400 aren't usually thinking about in the way someone 1800+ rating might (rating many people begin to consider "advanced"). Weak squares (not pieces, or pawns, but squares!), color-complex concepts and holes/outposts are all good examples of things that many 1100 players don't even know about in their games.

When people say "beginner, intermediate, or advanced" then understanding chess as a whole doesn't align perfectly with how the person compares to the global average.

Hopefully, I explained this well enough; it is tough to convey. I love how a lot of these "advanced" chess concepts are becoming more well known at all levels because of so many free resources today like YouTube chess channels, or chess books more beginner-friendly.