My first 9 months consisted of me not really playing more than an our or so a week... learning chords mostly... I didn't get really seriously into guitar until after I transferred colleges, subsequently retiring from baseball... which gave me tons of free time... that was around my 3rd year of playing... At that time I could play most Metallica songs straight through and a lot of Hendrix and other popular guitar songs... Now I've been playing for 4 years... only about 1 of which seriously... and I can do pretty much anything you expect a good guitar player to do... though my real passion lies in the building/design of guitars... I've been playing a lot of blues lately... a lot of slide guitar... stuff like that.

Tip: make sure you work on learning whole songs... not just bits and pieces... It will make it easier for you to write your own stuff later on when you understand how everything fits together... plus... no one likes to hear 15 second clips of songs...