r/TextingTheory • u/textingtheorybot • Feb 18 '26

Mod Post Create Texting Theory Post

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r/TextingTheory • u/pjpuzzler • Jul 16 '25

Mod Post What is Elo?

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<TL;DR>

100 Elo - Worst

500 Elo - Bad

1000 Elo - Average

1500 Elo - Great

2000+ Elo - Terrific

</TL;DR>

Elo is essentially a rating or measure of aptitude. In chess it is gained or lost according to the result of a game played (also factoring in the skill difference between players).

On this subreddit it is utilized slightly differently: as a one-off rating for the side in the title [brackets]. [Me] refers to the person on the right.

There aren't really any strict guidelines for what values correspond to what "levels", but it may be helpful to reference the player count distribution of chess.com ratings below (which as you can see is very positively skewed)

​You can vote on Elo using the slider at the bottom of an active post. The current post Elo is shown in the post flair.

Elo is redacted until 25 votes, and once the post reaches 24h voting will stop and the post flair will adopt a colorful background and update the user's flair to match. Very high user flairs (2200+) will include a title, e.g. GM for grandmaster.

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r/TextingTheory • u/TwinKoala • 10h ago

1382 Elo (815 Votes) [Me] Added her

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r/TextingTheory • u/TheMelaninGod • 2h ago

1471 Elo (42 Votes) [Me, M] will it work???

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r/TextingTheory • u/Secretly_a_Giraffe • 13h ago

1676 Elo (105 Votes) [Me, 27M] Mate in 2.

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r/TextingTheory • u/BlackLlamaa • 8h ago

??? Elo (22 Votes) [Me, 27M] Violence

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r/TextingTheory • u/airjew22 • 19h ago

1363 Elo (171 Votes) [Me, 30M] Chess Gambit

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r/TextingTheory • u/ImJustHere_2727 • 14h ago

??? Elo (17 Votes) [Me] Geometry Dash gambit from a wrong number text

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r/TextingTheory • u/fenis_son • 1d ago

1508 Elo [Me, 22M] Chicken momma

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r/TextingTheory • u/fenis_son • 1d ago

1567 Elo [Me, 22M] Project Hail Mary

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r/TextingTheory • u/fenis_son • 1d ago

1397 Elo [Me, 22M] Brainrot

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r/TextingTheory • u/Sunmommy3 • 1d ago

1359 Elo [Me, 25M] Comeback season

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r/TextingTheory • u/PrestigiousPhrase378 • 21h ago

420 Elo (207 Votes) [Me, 26M] mmm

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r/TextingTheory • u/Commercial_Split2789 • 1d ago

704 Elo [Me] A classic stalemate!

72 Upvotes

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r/TextingTheory • u/eljxyy • 1d ago

924 Elo [Me, 23M] I thought we were on the same wavelength…

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r/TextingTheory • u/Crazy-Chemical6901 • 23h ago

305 Elo (60 Votes) [Me, 20M] Outdoors Gambit 🫩

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r/TextingTheory • u/Icy-Emu4031 • 1d ago

1102 Elo [Me] A near blunder in the middlegame

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r/TextingTheory • u/wellplayedyeeyee • 1d ago

586 Elo [Me] Dawg gambit (she had "I want someone with Doberman energy")

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r/TextingTheory • u/No_Professional1035 • 2d ago

683 Elo [Me, 20M] Where did I blunder

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r/TextingTheory • u/Sorry_Safe7550 • 2d ago

1603 Elo [Me, 21M] YC dropout clout

107 Upvotes

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r/TextingTheory • u/Crazy-Chemical6901 • 3d ago

677 Elo [Me, 20M] Fine Motor Skills Gambit

283 Upvotes

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r/TextingTheory • u/Trippyotaku • 3d ago

2064 Elo [Me, 23M] We gonna have fun with this one

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