2026.03.13

Earlier this month, I crossed the 2000 rating barrier for chess.com blitz rating! My bullet rating still lags far behind, but my blitz rating surge was nice

I used to be around 1850 for 5 min blitz, but I switched to 3 min blitz and the 3/1 time control of Untitled Tuesday games (which later moved to Thursday). My blitz rating was around 1600s for 3 min for the longest time. I decided to work on my blitz and I eventually got consistently into the 1700s for 3 min blitz. That was a while ago (let's say a year ago) and then I recently wondered how high I could bring up my blitz rating if I started grinding 5 min blitz. That's how I gained about 250 rating points in about 2 weeks and crossed 2000 rating!