Time Controls Popularity
See which Lichess time controls people play and when each queue is busiest.
Games per day in each — time control
Average rated lobby games started per day, by month: a stand-in for how many people are in each queue. "other" is every remaining time control in the category.
When the queues are busy, —
Games started in each hour of the day, US Pacific time. Each row is shaded from its own quietest hour (lightest) to its busiest (darkest, with a dot) in five steps, so you can see when each queue fills up whatever its size. The right-hand column is busiest hour ÷ quietest hour: the bigger it is, the more your wait depends on when you play.
- Quietest
- Busiest hour of that time control
Games near your rating, by hour
Games per hour in — where the two players averaged —. Busiest at — Pacific time with — games an hour; quietest at — Pacific time with —.
Based on — rated Lichess lobby games from — through —. The counts exclude tournaments and known bots.