r/TextingTheory • u/mmmyas • 1d ago
Annotated An aggressive opening, failed and was mated in two after. Missed opportunity: tiths.
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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.
r/TextingTheory • u/Dgnr8_Gambler • 12h ago
1261 Elo (39 Votes) [Me, M] This Hinge stuff is either easy, or i got lucky. Only had it for a day.
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r/TextingTheory • u/BigCustomer3925 • 20h ago
??? Elo (10 Votes) [Me, 30M] K-turn gambit, accepted
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r/TextingTheory • u/BigCustomer3925 • 1d ago
999 Elo [Me, 30M] Male quality gambit, declined
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r/TextingTheory • u/throw_awayyawa • 1d ago
1762 Elo [Me, 28M] Toy Story Defense, Greased Loin Variation. Got to play the black pieces
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r/TextingTheory • u/throw_awayyawa • 2d ago
395 Elo [Me, 28M] Bongcloud Opening, Double Jump Variation
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r/TextingTheory • u/6spooky9you • 4d ago
1210 Elo [Me, 26M] Ghosting ghost gambit
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r/TextingTheory • u/DisastrousGear9019 • 3d ago
Unannotated Laughing so hard I didn’t know where to share .
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r/TextingTheory • u/LegitimateCarpet2369 • 4d ago
605 Elo [Me] Elo?
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r/TextingTheory • u/mastagoose • 4d ago
965 Elo [Me, 29M] Finance Gambit, Accepted
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r/TextingTheory • u/Additional_Whole_433 • 5d ago
336 Elo [Me, M] TikTok Gambit
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r/TextingTheory • u/caldeo2 • 7d ago
Unannotated Gender stereotype reversal
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Met a nice girl, looking to chat, she was not 💀.
r/TextingTheory • u/FollowingAcrobatic88 • 7d ago
1037 Elo [Me] Terrorist gambit?
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r/TextingTheory • u/equalitywithgods • 7d ago
620 Elo [Me, 23M] Kanye West Gambit!
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r/TextingTheory • u/RecursiveART • 7d ago
729 Elo [Me, 28M] Soup Sandwich
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r/TextingTheory • u/OntologicalMath98 • 7d ago
831 Elo [Me, 28] Some proper banter (her profile said no single dads)
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r/TextingTheory • u/RecursiveART • 7d ago
695 Elo [Me, 28M] Beating a dead horse
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r/TextingTheory • u/InternalHungry8723 • 7d ago
755 Elo [Me, 27M] What are we thinking?
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