I'm glad that the site staff take feedback seriously. So I hope my suggestion is taken into consideration. I would like Tactics Trainer to relax a little bit on the timer penalty.

I'm so gratified when I patiently work out a problem and solve it, even though my time is up. Why am I then penalized for playing TT arguably the right way? Award me zero points, don't take points away!

Other times when I fail I still earn points, because I got the first few moves right and I went real fast! It's as if TT's philosophy is, "You're going to lose after that last move, but at least you went real fast. You did the right thing."

Look, I'm totally on board for getting faster. But don't teach me bad habits. Does anybody else think the penalty for taking too long is too harsh?

Hello,

Well, you shouldn't take too seriously the timer and the score in TT. Its main purpose is to make sure you receive right problems for your level. For a serious improvement, you should try to solve the problem and ignore (or even hide) the timer.

the timers and ratings are there to gauge which problems you should be receiving, and give you relative performance. if we didn't subtract points for correct ones, we wouldn't adjust the problem rating, or your rating, and over time ratings would just inflate inflate inflate. i know it's hard on the ego to lose points even when you are right, but it is the only system to give people (and problems) accurate ratings. 

thank you for the suggestion and feedback though!

Wow! I got feedback same day, and by the main dude. Yes Erik the penalty for taking too long is a bummer, but you make a good case for it. Thanks for getting back to me!