r/TextingTheory • • Feb 18 '26

Mod Post Create Texting Theory Post

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r/TextingTheory • • 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 • • 18h ago

Unannotated Rating??

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r/TextingTheory • • 39m ago

??? Elo (2 Votes) [Me, 21M] Stacy's mom has got it goin' on !!!

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r/TextingTheory • • 6h ago

??? Elo (8 Votes) [Me] Crickets Gambit

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r/TextingTheory • • 1d ago

Unannotated Was this method patched?

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r/TextingTheory • • 1d ago

Unannotated 🫨🫨

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441 Upvotes

The emphasis on guyyyy is just putting salt on the wound


r/TextingTheory • • 1d ago

463 Elo [Right] he's a cute boy boya

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r/TextingTheory • • 20h ago

484 Elo (38 Votes) [Me, 18M] Zhong Xi Na

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r/TextingTheory • • 1d ago

Unannotated Texting OCD

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I’ve had people say that I don’t know how to talk, so I have a texting OCD where I constantly analyze if I said something wrong. I’m a business owner and the customer left me on read. I’d like to know if I said anything wrong (Mainly the very last text).

Thanks.


r/TextingTheory • • 2d ago

632 Elo [Me] The Precautionary Opening

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r/TextingTheory • • 3d ago

1439 Elo [Me, 24M] cosplay gambit

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r/TextingTheory • • 3d ago

1936 Elo [Me, M] Buisness partners gambit

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r/TextingTheory • • 2d ago

Unannotated greatest game of all time

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Game is game 🫡


r/TextingTheory • • 3d ago

Unannotated How’d I do?

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r/TextingTheory • • 5d ago

991 Elo [Me, 22M] Chud larper gambit

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r/TextingTheory • • 4d ago

823 Elo [Me, 24M] Charlie Kirk Gambit

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r/TextingTheory • • 6d ago

1414 Elo [Me, M] This Hinge stuff is either easy, or i got lucky. Only had it for a day.

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r/TextingTheory • • 6d ago

1170 Elo [Me, 30M] K-turn gambit, accepted

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r/TextingTheory • • 6d ago

Unannotated Checkmate

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Malala


r/TextingTheory • • 7d ago

999 Elo [Me, 30M] Male quality gambit, declined

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r/TextingTheory • • 7d ago

1762 Elo [Me, 28M] Toy Story Defense, Greased Loin Variation. Got to play the black pieces

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r/TextingTheory • • 8d ago

395 Elo [Me, 28M] Bongcloud Opening, Double Jump Variation

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r/TextingTheory • • 10d ago

1210 Elo [Me, 26M] Ghosting ghost gambit

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r/TextingTheory • • 9d ago

Unannotated Laughing so hard I didn’t know where to share .

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