How many tactics do you do?

Daily_____?

Weekly_____?

Site/s______? (or books, etc.)

Noticed improvement after_______? 

Do you try to do them quickly and go with your first instinct or take longer to calculate more variations? 

Thank you!

I do a minimum of 10 a day. I try to do as many as I can. I use the tactic trainer here on chess.com. I am thinking of buying a book so I can get more familiar with certain positions. Any suggestions?

what is tactics? 

1LoveU, they are those things you used to beat me once 

Pollux, cool, I'm not sure about books, but I'm sure if you search these main forums you'll probably hit heaps of threads that cover that question.

Also, do you try to do them quickly and go with your first instinct or take longer to calculate more variations?

My number of daily puzzles varies between 0 and maybe 50. With the avg closer to 0 than 50.

I just often don't have time to do them.

However, I have seen imporvements in doing them. I've also, on occassion, found myself looking for a better move during games. Which is something I never did before. And I think this is due to doing tactics puzzles.

Nice kleelof thanks :) I do 50 daily too. I tried doing more, but found 50 was the right balance.

229.4 hours worth so far... It varies from day to day.

Books.

Test Your Chess IQ: Master Challenge

One test page before I go to bed - under one hour.

My bathroom/casual reader is Excelling At Technical Chess.

I refuse to make chess study actual work.

Wow, iMacChess, that's really impressive! 

Do you still notice a incremental improvement in your tactical foresight after doing them for so long?

Cool, cornbeefhashvili, I feel the same. It should be fun :) Thanks

@Boogalicous yes but it varies. Some days I do better than others and other days I do worse. But it has help me to improve my game in 10 minutes Blitz...

yeah blitz games are so fast,good for seeing alot of patterns

I do a minimum of 30 per day and as many as 80 per day. It all depends how long I spend on them. I don't worry about my TT rating, I just solve the problems after I see the solution.

Thanks everyone. It's great to see the range of schedules and that tactical improvement has been unanimously confirmed :) 

Thanks Sean! :) I caught a few lucky breaks in our game. I'm sure you'll get me next game

I do 3 per day here, all I can do as I am free member. Sometimes I decide to do the daily puzzle so maybe it could said that I do 4 puzzles. My rating has been pretty static for the last year and I would think that if I became a paid up member with unlimited tactics that my rating would increase as many problems repeat so will be much faster the 2nd time round.

I only do the TT on chess.com. Some days I do about 100, some days none. I do 100 if my brain seems to be working that day. And yes, there's no doubt that it's improved my game.

There are a number of lists of tactical motifs on the web; I quite like this list … http://chesstempo.com/tactical-motifs.html#advancedPawn

Perhaps I should elaborate; I do only 3 TT/day here. I do 30-80 per day on chestempo.com.

ChessTempo.com -all the free tactics puzzles you could ever want.