Why am I still rated so low???

I’ve been very serious about chess but my rating still stays very low. Why is this? Everybody says that even if you take barely care about chess you can easily get to a rating of 500. I love chess and play it multiple times every day yet I’m stuck at 400 rapids. Not only am I being bullied often about it, but I really don’t understand. Is there something I’m doing wrong? Must I get a diamond membership, or is there some tactic I should use? Please help. Thank you.

Learn the basix of openings, and think a bit more about why your opponent made the move he did.

Yeah I love the Basix opening for white

yea, the Basix opening is OP

for those who don't know heres some theory.

no really? I didn't know that! ur the next Einstein!!

Study chess alone or learn from a coach

Yeah it surprised me so much when I figured it out!

Stop playing bullet and blitz. Those are great for once you have the pattern recognition but in the mean time, they do nothing at all for your rating. In fact I would argue they are actively hurting your chess progress.

Let's look at one of your recent games. This one is 10 minute rapid. You are making lots of both positional and tactical errors. Move 4 you miss an opportunity to play Nd4, which would attack the queen and setup a fork your next move with Nc2. Even though it's a 10 minute game, you made your move in 3 seconds. In other words, you're not using your time wisely. Move 8 your opponent plays Nxf6, and you retake with your g7 pawn - breaking a core chess principle and weakening your king safety. Again, you played the response in 8 seconds. Move 14 you find Nc2+, forking the king and the rook. But the next turn instead of taking the rook, you push your e pawn. You spend 8 seconds on it. The rook was still free for the taking 2 turns later and you never found it. Again, your moves came too quickly for the time format. You end up hanging your Knight on move 18, after thinking just 3 seconds. Then you hang your queen on move 20, again after a 3 second think.

This is why you are rated so low. You aren't using the time available to calculate. You aren't thinking about why your opponent made the move that they did. And you aren't doing blunder checks before making your moves. If you don't spend the time and work on your calculating skills, and time to consider your opponent's threats, you won't improve.

My last piece of advice is to review your games - because everything I mentioned you'd be able to see yourself if you studied your own games a little more closely.

Put in the work and believe in yourself and you will improve. Good luck!

Finally some actual help! Thank you so much

Wow that is honestly a amazing explanation

You're welcome! You got this!