As Lynnette Khlafani-Cox looked at her credit score back in 2022, she couldn’t believe what she was seeing. The number that popped up on her screen: 850. She is a renowned money expert known as ‘The ...

Only a tiny fraction of Americans have reached the absolute top of the credit-scoring ladder in 2025, but that sliver of consumers tells an outsized story about how the system rewards long-term, ...

Congratulations: You just earned a perfect 850 credit score. That's a major financial achievement, and definitely cause for celebration. But in terms of actual, tangible benefits, a perfect credit ...

As long as you pay your bills on time, keep your credit card balances low, and only open new credit accounts when you need to, you'll have a perfect credit score, right? Unfortunately, this simply isn ...

I'm not a perfectionist, so achieving an 850 credit score was never a goal of mine. However, as a CNET Money editor, I know that having a higher score can help in a lot of ways, including getting ...

Big news for me this week… I checked my credit score and it's now sitting at 840! That means I'm just 10 points away from hitting the elusive perfect 850. Only about 1.5% of Americans ever see that ...