What are all of the ways I can improve my chess?

Hello. I'm a 13 year old beginner and I'm wondering how I can improve. Thanks!

Only do these things: Playing Games, Analyzing Games, Basic Opening Study, and Tactics.

Playing games: play slow games, NOT BLITZ OR BULLET. 60|0 or 45|45 is best. 

Analyzing games: Annotate your own games providing variations and commantary, WITHOUT A COMPUTER.

Opening Study: After each game, review it in a database to see where you should have played differently. dont spend more then about 10 mins a game. 

Tactics: spend at least 30 mins a study session doing tactics. I reccomend Chesstempo.com

ALSO: play in as many Rated Tournaments as you can. Icc is good for this.

BONUS: If you have someone to help you (family member, close friend) practice BLINDFOLD CHESS.

I am doing this plan, and getting better slowly but steadily.

Perhaps blindfold chess is a too hard for a beginner (I am a bit better than that and I don't dare myself to try it... visualization is still lacking). I've heard that people around 1 800 or higher can do it successfully.

https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement

You can use this blog as a loose guide if you like it. Doing these things helped me. It is not a quick fix, progress will come gradually. 

1800?? I am only 1600 chess.com!

Dont be scared of trying Blindfold, you only get better from practice

When I started blindfold, i could only get 1 move in.

Now, I can play about 20 moves a side!

thanks! what database would you recommend for the opening study?

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

I reccomend Chesstempo.com.

It is also really good for tactics

Yeah I heard somewhere on youtube (don't remember which video) that 1 800 FIDE players can do it successfully for a whole game without too many difficulties, but of course they can start earlier to practice. 

So you seem to be close to it though.  You probably can't wait to play OTB chess to raise that unrealistic USCF rating of yours. 

im going in with 100 uscf

Hehe, you're welcome.

yep but to be honest thats pretty accurate to my strength

Hi, I'd say that you should start reading books and start playing as well. Prefer to join any chess club if you don't have any company.

https://www.chessequipments.com/top-chess-books-for-beginner-chess-players/

Are you sure? I mean I know how to mate with other pieces like bishop and bishop but it's pretty rare so I don't know if it's worth the time, at least at my level.

thanks for the advice, but I'm not just starting out, I've played on this site for about 8 months. So yeah I'm looking for books maybe like The Amateur's Mind

yeah, thats true Ill probably wait until 2000 

Also new here, can I ask what the formats like 30|0 15|10 etc mean??  I've only played a handful of games, but all "20 min" so far, which always has me running low on time compared to opponent, though I've managed to win a couple too yay!

30|0 is 30 minutes per side with 0 seconds increment after every move.
15|10 is 15 minutes per side with 10 seconds increment after every move.