Hikaru Nakamura achieved a new peak Blitz rating of 3500 on Chess.com during his regular playing session. He surpassed the previous platform record of 3488 points set by himself last week.

The gap between Nakamura and the second-highest rated player, Magnus Carlsen, is 100 points. In total, Hikaru has played 45,833 Blitz games, winning 35,933, losing 5,534, and drawing 4,366. Nakamura’s total win rate is 78.4%.

Hikaru Nakamura is World’s No. 3 in the FIDE Blitz rating with 2800 points. Nakamura lost 38 Blitz points in 2026. This year he played in two Blitz tournaments, the Naroditsky Memorial 2026 and the WR Chess Team USA vs Uzbekistan.

Credit: Michal Walusza / FIDE