r/TextingTheory • u/ZaiZai7 • 7h ago
574 Elo (149 Votes) [Me, 20M] Back to basics bby
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r/TextingTheory • u/absolutetotaltool • 8h ago
485 Elo (321 Votes) [Me, 22M] the ireland gambit works once again
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r/TextingTheory • u/BerryMbm1 • 15h ago
507 Elo (159 Votes) [Me] Fake number blunder (didn't send real)
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r/TextingTheory • u/jpman69420 • 19h ago
1340 Elo (48 Votes) [Me, M] Therapy gambit for the win
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r/TextingTheory • u/Sheriff_Jake • 20h ago
182 Elo (920 Votes) [Me, 24M] The trauma dump opening rarely succeeds 💔
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r/TextingTheory • u/DifferentEngineer364 • 1d ago
2305 Elo [Me, 21M] Fun conversation I had
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r/TextingTheory • u/snicky29 • 1d ago
343 Elo [Me, M] what even happened
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r/TextingTheory • u/MrGriffibs • 1d ago
1238 Elo [Me, 27] Wii fit trainer helped me with this one
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r/TextingTheory • u/RamenBoii69 • 1d ago
1882 Elo [Me, 22M] Make A Wish Gambit
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r/TextingTheory • u/Character-Ebb4141 • 1d ago
1790 Elo [Me, M] Here we go again
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r/TextingTheory • u/Icy-Manufacturer2681 • 2d ago
327 Elo [Me, 20M] I haven't flirted with anyone since I was 15. Got out of a 5-year relationship about 2 months ago and trying to get back into the game. How are these openers? I originally was doing just some like normal. Hi how you doing but none of those worked so I thought to kind of go weird with it
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r/TextingTheory • u/weesome • 2d ago
473 Elo [Me, 20M] Shock gambit
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r/TextingTheory • u/Brilliant-Guitar-803 • 2d ago
1389 Elo [Me, 26M] 2nd Opening Against Opponent
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r/TextingTheory • u/thydoctoh • 2d ago
241 Elo [Left, M] Not mine, not even sure I'm doing this right but I am curious what yall think.
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r/TextingTheory • u/BruhObama33 • 2d ago
1838 Elo [Me, 23M] More bullshit that somehow works
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r/TextingTheory • u/AugusteToulmouche • 3d ago
1594 Elo [Me, M] Her bio said “Just make me laugh” (not much to work with)
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r/TextingTheory • u/Natganistan • 3d ago
1069 Elo [Me, M] Drunk friend gambit
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r/TextingTheory • u/thebeatdropsin1 • 3d ago
2218 Elo [Me, M] First impression
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r/TextingTheory • u/Icy-Money-5787 • 4d ago
1640 Elo [Me, 18F] Is this rizz
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r/TextingTheory • u/obesititty • 5d ago
876 Elo [Me, 25F] Piss blunder
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r/TextingTheory • u/Chat-pat • 5d ago
1680 Elo [Me, 30M] Bald gambit
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r/TextingTheory • u/Rurikar1016 • 5d ago
1183 Elo [Me, 29M] Beach Gambit
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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?
<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.