Nemo judges your chess rating, then bows to Magnus Carlsen
A wordless rating sketch draws nearly 200,000 views in ten hours, with viewers comparing goals and spotting oddly specific scores.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 335,244 views a day, 8.1 times a normal first day on this channel (41,372).
POV: Judging Your Chess Elo 🫵
Low-rated players get waved away. Climb a little higher and the performers cover their eyes; keep climbing and the shrugs turn into smiles, applause and theatrical disbelief. Nemo's latest Short makes a chess rating into a social audition, without a single spoken word.
"POV: Judging Your Chess Elo 🫵" features two women reacting to an ascending series of ratings. The joke is the wildly exaggerated scale of approval, capped by repeated bows when Magnus Carlsen's name replaces the scores. Carlsen, a five-time world chess champion, gets a category of his own.
The sketch reached nearly 200,000 views in ten hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day Shorts audience. Rating-based encounters are familiar territory for Nemo: an opponent's surprise at her rating is also the premise of her most-watched Short.
Here, viewers are bringing their own chess ambitions into the comments. One sets separate short-term and long-term rating goals; another notices the dedicated reaction around the intermediate levels. Others are trying to decode the unusually specific scores tucked between the round numbers. For a video with no moves to analyze, there's still plenty for chess players to pick apart.
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What viewers say
Short term goal : 1300
Long term : 1700
It's set@bloppybeeSee it on YouTubeIts not how big your elo is, its how you play chess
@KukkakukkoSee it on YouTubeWho is the 2705?
@Prometheus4096See it on YouTube
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And then there's me, completely oblivious on how to play chess
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- Channel
- Nemo
- Subscribers
- 750,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,832,189
- Channel views, pace per day
- 284,640 (on a normal day: 647,785)
- Video published
- October 20, 2026
- Video views so far
- 199,753 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 335,244
The numbers
The Short has already passed Nemo's usual first-day views, with much of its opening day still ahead.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which country does Magnus Carlsen represent in chess?
Carlsen is a Norwegian chess player and five-time world chess champion.