Discussing About Tactics... Tips, Problems, and more.

One of those days... or two...

Ouch!

Yeah. Even the ones I took over the average time on.

Every day for me...

same man

  #sadstory 

happens to me too

Lol

U finished 450 tactics in 150 mins. Your average time per tactic is 20 secs.

Seriously?

What kind of results are you expecting? What are you expecting to learn within 20 secs?

I dont know the difficulty level of 900-1000 rated puzzles and your skill. However, I need  2 min to 2.5 mins in avarage to solve a tactic. 

When I solve too many (meaning tens of) tactics per day, I tend to blitz them out after a while (using around 1 minute per tactic), but some of them are rated 2400+ or 2500+, thus difficult. For these reasons and unders these circumstances, I tend to loose tens of rating points, maybe even 100. If I do it moderately and stop after 20-25, I get most of them right. If I solve only five, I have a good chance of getting four right and score 20 points. Solving 20-25 with a good percentage yields tens of rating points. (Peak TT rating: 2290, current rating 2220.)

Advice: TAKE YOUR TIME AND LEARN!

TT is a learning tool, not the 110 yards dash!

You don't know half the story! Listen up, I used to move fast but I don't now. That was different for your information. I move 40 seconds to 1 minute per puzzle now.

Nope, been there twice already. You know me well, you've seen my other forums called "TACTICS ARE TOO HARD" and another that I forgot what it was called. I have tried going slow on daily... doesn't help, slow on tactics? So hard to do, but when I make myself to a minute more than the target time and 30 seconds more than the average, I still get it wrong. 

I kind of have to agree. If you see a tactics puzzle and haven't a clue, it's like an exam question. You can spend a good 5 minutes thinking, but in the end you only get one chance to get it right as there's no undo, one wrong move and you're wrong and you lose points. So you could think forever on it but not have a clue and still get it wrong.

For me even one minute is way too fast. I know often the target time is 20 seconds, and when it takes me 3 minutes I feel like an idiot. But my goal isn't to be fast, it's to be challenged by the problems. Sometimes it takes me 5 minutes, but at least in the end I understand the solution to the problem. When I do try to solve it faster, or, if I guess, I almost always get it wrong. I think no matter what your rating or no matter the difficulty of the problem, just dont move until you really understand the solution. If it's 10 minutes, it's 10 minutes. Who cares.

same here IfPatriotGames

I've done about 3000 tactics puzzles over the course of a year on this site, got about half correct and a rating currently about 900. My main issue is that the rating makes no sense. My rapid rating is about 1150 and daily about 1250. So I'm aware I'm not a good player. Yet the rating might still go up or down by 10 points per problem even after 3000.

That sounds like a really reasonable answer and one to follow. But I don't see why you and other people like you come to this forum. What I mean is that even my fast 1 minute is usually over the average time. What do people do? Move in ten seconds and get it right? I think only the high rated ones actually wait, and the problems I am given are lower rated problems so higher rated people don't get them. Therefore, most of the people who get the ones I do move faster. The average does not seem correct.

Yeah. My problem with it is that when I do focus on getting them right, I get like 5 right and 2 wrong, and my rating is near the same as before. I feel like it goes down much farther than up. 

I changed the topic to discussing about tactics in more than one way.

Like I said, the rating makes little sense on this site. It definitely seems to go down more than it goes up. Saying that, you seem to get about the same points if you get it right after 10 seconds as after 2 minutes, so it pays to go slower.