Play Bullet, it doesn't matter how much you lose but it will improve your longer game.

Yes.

I didn't start playing Chess at all until I was in my mid 40's. So I think I'm limited on how high I can go ratings-wise. My first goal is to go over 1000. I have to put in more time learning that I have if I want to get anywhere near that. However, I have found playing 1.e4 every game is the easiest thing for me to do. 

Obviously, I'm not a good player but most everything I've read from titled players it seems for new players this is the correct first move.  Who am I to question a titled player?

This is exactly it for me and I'm conscious of it. 

I just tend to try make moves as fast as possible to win on time because I'm not at a level yet where I can play a series of good moves at that pace. So, I don't play a lot of bullet.  I play mostly daily games and rapid. Seems like in rapid games I can play with actual thought behind my moves. 

It does improve your longer game!

How?

I don't see how it improves anyone's game when you are low rated and can barely make good plays with 10-15 minute time constraints. I don't think most people under 1500 are likely improving anything playing bullet. Particularly if you are under 800, at that point I feel like I'm wasting time on bullet when I could be learning better from doing puzzles, playing daily or rapids or even watching so YouTube videos or reading a book.

Bullet isn't a good way to improve, at all.

The only thing it can help you with is spotting superficial tactics. But even then, there are better ways to work on tactics.

Note: when you see high-rated players playing bullet, they aren't doing it to improve. They're doing it for fun.

Their actual training is much slower, and more tedious. That's where true improvement comes from.

Yes Mr. 489 rapid, we trust in your teachings master.

In all seriousness, I’m not one to sh#t on lower rated players, but taking advice from someone that can’t break 600 rapid is akin to asking a baby who only recently learned how to walk about how to become a marathon runner.

No one pays attention to the opinion of the baby, because they can scarcely grasp what a marathon even is!

I don't know what to say other than humans are strange and interesting.

Actually, the forum is about Bullet and I am currently 629. Maybe think before you speak next time, could help. You may not look like how you sound. : )

I like bullet because it's fun and I can finish a game quickly while I'm waiting for something else in life to happen. Also with the increment it's not complete crap because that mostly eliminates flagging by just flailing pieces in the "endgame".  I have played 1000's of games and have not improved in years, in rating anyway.

Well, they used the rapid rating since you were saying bullet improves your long game

According to the title, even if I lose a thousand games in a row at chess, I could still say I have improved. Huh, neat.

In all honesty, relying on bullet for improvement would only TORTURE your chances of winning games with longer time controls. Long time controls encourage players to think moves through to find great and perfect moves. Bullet encourages players the exact opposite. To not think at all, just move. No thought, no care, very little to no quality in the moves you make considering your rating (no offense), just move, move, MOVE!

Exactly, bullet makes my brain recoil. 

Nup, incorrect, the right answer is 4, people below 1000 who play 1.d4.

For me, bullet is frenetic and stressful.

So I'm always astounded when Hikaru (Nakamura), on stream, is able to discuss important squares and potential tactics that might arise in the position ... while playing bullet.

... against 3000+ opponents.

And he does it casually, too, as if he's in no rush at all.

Or he'll stop playing to blatantly sip a drink from his sponsor ... or he'll let a few seconds run off his clock while he reads chat and answers their questions ... while playing bullet.

well, that's because he uses chess.com's tactics trainer

wise words llama

Do what makes you want to play that game again. If it is bullet, be it.

There is some controversy about the actual value of bullet for improving your game and indeed many good players has a lot of contempt for this kind of chess. But I also know personally a FM who has played more than 200 000 bullet games. He thinks that bullet is real chess and that very high skilled players (maybe world class to be honest) can produce good games with a very low error rate in that time controls. So where lies the truth?

It seems also that youth love bullet and elders don't like it very much.

Since your reading comprehension evidently matches your comprehension of chess, let me walk you through nice and slow.

This thread is about how bullet improves your play in longer time controls.

You are awful at longer time controls, despite playing plenty of bullet, so your very existence disproves the premise of your thread.

The fact that this needs to be explained to you is sad but unsurprising.

Oh and “You may not look like how you sound” isn’t a coherent statement in case you didn’t realize.

Either English isn’t your first language or you are mentally impaired.

Please utilize your two remaining neurons to formulate a post that doesn’t make yourself look like a clown, before posting reply.

It will save what little remains of your credibility.

Every time I think you’ve said the most idiotic thing possible, you post another comment and one up yourself.