I suck at 1-5 min time control

The lowest time control I can play without getting overwhelmed is 8 mins. Any time less than 8 becomes hard for me..I either lose on time or just play horribly ...This is probably one of the rarest games where I was able to win within time ...It was a 3 min game

Any suggestion to improve on this shorter time limit?

It took me repeated losses at this time control to build up the foundation and instincts in this time control. You will need to list out candidate moves very quickly. Strong tactics foundation is equally essential in such time controls. Personally, for me, I always scan the board to look for reasonably good moves, even if they are not the best moves.

Why not try to include increments like 3|2 as a start? Jumping straight to 3|0 from longer time controls is really not easy.

20. Nd7? didn't work out, but still, the game is not over at that point, and you found a way to exploit your opponent's unforced errors to win the game. Well done!

I am not good at short time controls either, and I don't care.  Chess is really complex, and the thought process of finding the best move is the beauty of it.  Some people find good moves quickly, which is cool, but I am only concerned about finding good moves regardless of time.  I play rapid 15/10, mainly because I don't have time for longer games.  

I would like to be good at all types of chess, but I choose to focus on learning the game.  I think learning comes from deep contemplation of chess positions.  The better you get at chess, the better your fast game will be, but I don't think playing fast chess is a good way of becoming better at chess.  

Thanks!  

I also don't like short time controls, 15|10 is the minimum i play, but i prefer slow OTB chess. But if you wish to improve on short time controls then pattern recognition is essential, to be able to spot tactical motifs instantly.

3 to 5-minute games are a flaggers game.  I saw your profile and see that you are 1800 in rapid, which proves my point.  You are not a flagger, but rather, a long calculator.  Therefore this probably means you are a person that takes longer to make his moves.  There are people that take much shorter times to make their moves, however, the downside of that is that they are not good at a game with longer time controls, and they don't remember most of the games that they play.  There are people that can have characteristics of both type of players, but this is rare, and these people usually are so good that they get to about 2000 rating without even having to study or play games with long time controls.  These are the type of people that would have been GM's if they had learned while they were younger.

You are like me, a person who takes a lot longer than most people to think about their moves.  Some of this can be canceled out though.  Over time you can gradually learn to weed out bad time wasting thought processes you may or may not have that you are currently unaware of, but this takes a long time.  There is no quick fix.  

Let me tell you what I am doing.  I'm fixing my problems with games of long time controls, so that I get more experience with games with longer time controls, and fix the problems I have with longer time controls.  I tend to move way too fast and not use most of my time and lose due to outright blunders most of my games of long time controls.  Currently, I am better at rapid than I am with blitz, so I will work on my rapid skills until I get a solid 1800 and then work on much longer time controls or just keep working on my rapid skills until I get to 2000.  That will take a long time.

It will probably take thousands of games to reach those type of ratings, so it will take a while, and, while I am doing that I will work on my openings, endgame, and tactics, as well as read articles and go over annotated games that speak about middle game concepts.

If I can do that (I say if because I may not have time) then that is what I do and I hope to get better.

But playing a bunch of 3 minute games I don't think will help your chess skills in general.  It will only help you train in openings faster.  I've heard from many sources the way to go is study long game first, then worry about speed chess, and now I know speed chess is all about pattern recognition.  I myself noticed that doing a lot of chess tempo tactics, standard ones, helps with speed chess, but you have to do 30-40 a day, for about 3 weeks to see results.  Take longer at first to try and solve them, and eventually you will get the nac of it and be able to move faster, but remember the tactics will try and trick you (try and give you a cavet), so don't just play the first move that comes to mind without looking at other possibilities or seeing it to it's conclusion.

This has helped me from getting from about 1300 rating in blitz to almost 1500.  If I do all of what I want to do in time hopefully I will get stronger.  I hope my insight on "slow thinkers" and "fast thinkers" has shed some light on the issue.  You and I are "slow thinkers," but, as I said, there is hope.  and I don't mean we are stupid.  A slow thinker isn't necessarily stupid.  "Slow thinker" is a bad word, but I don't know what else to call it.  You noticed I used different terminology at first and now only started to employ this stuff.  Believe it or not some people are slow thinkers, and others are fast thinkers.  They were born that way.  You just have to make do with what you have to it's furthest point.

I think that the best way to get better at blitz is to play more blitz and then go over your games. I only started playing chess in the past year (I used to play 40 years ago) and I played 5-minute because it was quick. I think that I'd get bored in longer time formats.

Puzzle-rush might be helpful too.

Also, watching GMs (especially Nakamura) playing blitz.

Focused, accurate thinkers.

It's all forms of chess for me.

Thanks ! I think I'm improving ! Already gotten a bit better and got the hold of it . Especially in 5 min games