Puzzle Score Not Improving

 first, you must know the movements and elementary mates. For solving puzzles you can custom them, select mate in 1 or 2. Then when you find it easy you can switch to mate in 3. After that you should see a few examples for a particular theme then try it.

Experience is the best teacher. Your rating just dropped because you missed three one-move puzzles.

When you see a puzzle, you don't know how many moves it will require. The first showed you down by a lot of material. That gives you a big hint.

What move did you choose?

The next one, you were in check, which limits your possible responses. You had only two legal moves available.

Again, what did you play and why?

The third again finds your king in check.

The rook is giving check, again limiting your options. 

I guess I would automatically look to see if anything can take the rook.

What were you thinking about?

One thing that has worked for me is simply to slow down, look, and think as long as you need to. Don't worry about the speed bonus.

Another tip I have given myself is:  don't overlook the obvious. Maybe it's a defect in the puzzle, but occasionally the solution is so obvious you might fear it's a sort of trick question, but it isn't.

I would suggest to think more about the individual puzzles as the previous members have suggested. Stay on one puzzle you didn't see and try to figure out why you didn't and how you can spot it better next time, as mentioned by notmtwain you can know if you are down a lot of material if there will be a mate or so. There's a lot of experience involved.

Try to learn patterns from the ones you don't see, otherwise you will just be using energy on doing them without learning from them.

Also, it takes more than 5 days to improve at chess! It's not that easy. Be patient. Go back to those puzzles you failed and try to learn why certain moves work and also why certain ones don't. Take your time with them. Don't just rush through them. It's not a race.

You should consider forcing moves (captures, checks, and threats)

You should also try to consider the options, then evaluate which one is best using your own judgment. 
Lastly, the rating isn't everything that matters. Don't worry about it, and it will eventually go up.

Good luck on learning the beautiful game of chess

Ok, that helps settle my nerves.  Have any of you found reading the great chess books, or studying the 30 most common openings helpful?

Personally I don't like the idea of studying openings when you start out, but if you do, try to understand the moves rather than remember them.

Also, I would suggest you to try to fully complete the puzzle in your head before making the first move. It helps you train important areas, like memory and board vision.

Try to focus more on opening principles than memorising moves. Build a centre and protect it and keep an eye on how many things attack and defend your pawns. Develop your pieces and try not to make time wasting moves. There's plenty of resources on opening basics.

Other than that it's going to mostly be about tactics and pattern recognition for those.

um get a chess coach?

but yours dropped cause you missed 3 1 move checkmates in a row

I experienced better results when I focused and didn't care about time, using 5 - 10 minutes in one puzzle, if u don't find the solution, then u see the answer and try to understand why your move wasn't right, take your time, and you will see the improvement

I don't think thats good advise, to me coaching only makes sense when you want to pinpoint your weakness and improve on that.. When starting out you have so much to improve, that I think Its better just to enjoy the game.

By the way, welcome to the website hope you stay. I want to see you improve that puzzle rating! I'll be watching. You can do it, but don't feel rushed. Enjoy the puzzles and try to learn some patterns from them, take your time with them, even after you completed them, go over them some more.

I have no business running my mouth because I am a mediocre player... BUT! I sympathize with your interest in learning openings and agree it is very good idea, nay a necessity. But first things first. You've heard it a thousand times but it never gets old:  develop pieces, control the center. This is the common thread underlying most book openings.

Note to those who are really good: If I have it wrong please feel free to correct me.

I'll give two answers:

1) for playing the game.

I don't consider myself really good (I only have a 19xx US Chess rating almost 200 points below my peak) but study openings (one with black against e4, one with black against d4, either e4 or d4 with white) just enough so that you don't get blown off the board in the first ten moves.  Then concentrate on tactics so you don't get blindsided in the next 30 moves.  Then concentrate on the simple mates (K+Q vs K, K+R vs K) and common endings like K+P vs K.

That gives you a way to survive the opening, survive the middle game, and have an idea of what to do in the ending.

At that point getting better is a matter or wash, rinse, repeat (learn more of the openings, more complex tactics and more difficult endings).

As long as you remember to learn how to handle the endings you will often be able to come back from positions that evaluate you as being behind.  A lot of players look for the middle game knock-out and do not handle endings well.

2) a) for puzzle rush.

Use survival mode (no time limit).  When you make a mistake, before exiting the puzzle rush screen, click on the red X for the three puzzles you made a mistake on and use the lower right arrows to see what the answer is.  That will help you see what your error was.

b) when you miss a puzzle in the standard puzzle mode (the one that affects your puzzle rating) make sure you understand what the point of the puzzle was (as best you can).  As your puzzle rating goes up the puzzles get harder.  My puzzle success percentage is only 60% but the difficulty level is a bit higher (my puzzle rating is, currently, 2617).

Use the custom puzzles to get experience in some of the things to look for.