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In general, the lower your balances relative to credit limit, the better. Credit experts suggest keeping this ratio at 25% or less, but if you are trying to improve your score, you may want to aim for no more than 10%. (You do want to use at least one of your credit cards, though.
So if you have $500 in credit card debt and a $1,000 total credit limit, your credit utilization ratio is 50 percent. However, if you open another card account, which raises your total credit limit to $2,000, your credit utilization ratio drops to 25 percent, which could help your score.