Somewhere around 600 rating, a new player asks whether that's good. Somewhere around 1200, an intermediate player asks the same thing. At 2000, people still ask. The honest answer is that "good" was never a fixed line to cross, it's a moving comparison against a pool of players that is constantly growing and constantly improving, and that alone makes the question harder to answer than it looks.
Rating is relative, not absolute
A rating only means "you beat about half the players near this number, and lose to about half." It says nothing on its own about how much chess you know, how long you've played, or whether you're actually getting better. Two players at 1000 can have wildly different levels of raw chess knowledge depending on how much they've played against weaker or stronger pools, how many time controls they mix in, and even which platform's rating pool they're compared against, since Chess.com, Lichess, and FIDE ratings are not the same scale.
Roughly speaking, most adult club players who play casually for a few years land somewhere between 800 and 1400 on Chess.com's rapid pool, and that is a completely normal, unremarkable place to be. Titled players start around 2200. The gap between "normal hobbyist" and "titled player" is enormous, and almost nobody needs to close it to enjoy the game or even to get meaningfully better at it.
The number that's actually worth watching
Because rating mixes in matchmaking noise, opponent strength, time control, and your own day-to-day form, chasing it game by game is a bit like judging your health by checking your weight after every meal. The trend over months means something. The swing after one game usually doesn't.
A steadier signal is whether the specific mistakes costing you games are actually going away. That's a number you control directly, session to session, regardless of what the matchmaking gods do to your rating that week. It's also the number that, over time, is what actually drags your rating upward, since the points come from not making the same mistake for the fourth time.
Rookie's deck tracks that directly: not your rating, but how many of your known recurring mistakes have actually stopped showing up in your games. Sign up and every game you review builds that picture automatically.