Is it even worth it playing Blitz?

I'm just having a hard time I guess. Raising my rating is near impossible at this point.

I dunno.. frustration is kicking in I guess. I get whooped on by people my rating and lower.

I think you just need to learn how to "sit there" for longer time controls. If you find yourself being "easily distracted" then one possibility is that you aren't making use of this "extra" time for other things.

Some productive things to think about mid-game are:

- Calculation on what to play if they opponent next move is this or that.

- What should my plan be here? What should my opponent's plan be here?

- What are some weaknesses in my opponent's position? Can I take advantage of those?

- What are some weaknesses in my position? Can the opponent take advantage of those?

- What are some of the key imbalances in this position?

These questions and many more can be complicated to evaluate, or answer, but it gets easier with practice and experience. Even just using a little time to double check your calculations or moves (before you play them) can be useful.

Longer time controls tend to be better for learning; at least this is true for the lower ratings. As one gets more experienced and has more patterns in their pattern recognition, then playing blitz or bullet becomes easier since they mostly know what to do already and can play well on less "thinking time."

p.s. When I joined chess.com, I used to play 5 min blitz because I didn't know better and after a little while, I realized that playing 10 min games was better for me. I mostly played 10 min games on chess.com and longer time controls in-person from then on and I've mostly stuck to that over the years even up to now. I don't think it is about one exact time control "better" than another. It is more about having enough time to not feel rushed, but also a little "extra" time to think on a position if you need it.

5/5 isn't blitz (although they think it is here) because you can't lose on time. People play blitz to practise and also to speed up.

I do the 3 minute games generally.

Kaiba has a point, to improve your game, one needs to become proficient at a number of different things in chess. After your game improves, so will your rating.A chess-iprovement curve is not a smooth slope,either,but looks like a seismic recording of an earthquake,jagged ups and downs that over time has a general upwards trend.At elo aprrox. 400,a player needs to develope a good thought process and be able to spot most 1-3 ply tactics consistantly.You really don't need to know anything about positional factors or openings past the 1st 3-4 moves tops. You do need to know the basics of checkmates and endgames. Thats it. So you need to study/practice these things, and play games long enough so you can use what you have practiced in a game---that means longer time controls. There is no way around that fact. So you need to save bullet and blitz for later on and play 15/0 ,that gives you about 15-30 seconds per move to think and enough time to sink 60 seconds into a move should you need to. You should also play in a chess tourney in daily .So a little study and practice per day, and long time controls. Good luck.

Check out this #chess game: pika_pika_2 vs canondew - https://www.chess.com/live/game/80186486325

Nm I don't know how to post a game here... That link is a game I just played, I had several seconds left but it wouldn't let me check mate the other player.. don't know why

Like halfway down this article, chess.com explains how to post a chess game via pgn diagram:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-use-the-chesscom-diagr

Know what I'm stupid.. I didn't have check mate when I thought I did. 😩 I might as well quit playing.

You are NOT stupid. I've missed many checkmate in 1 situations in the past too. It occasionally happens to the best of us. We are human.