Good luck. If you did 213 attempts the first day in 75 minutes, that means you devoted an average of only 20 seconds per puzzle. I find it hard to believe that is enough to fully comprehend the challenges. If you seriously want to learn something here, don't rush.
/Who will be administering the ritualistic beatings and floggings?
/You should post updates here. Very few people will see it on a blog.
Good luck. If you did 213 attempts the first day in 75 minutes, that means you devoted an average of only 20 seconds per puzzle. I find it hard to believe that is enough to fully comprehend the challenges. If you seriously want to learn something here, don't rush.
/Who will be administering the ritualistic beatings and floggings?
/You should post updates here. Very few people will see it on a blog.
I was skipping the failed puzzles since they were not worth any points. I realizied this, and have implemented a punishment system which would require me to continue the failed puzzles, without incentive value until a perpetual solution is discovered. A true spartan must do his own beating and flogging.
The remainder of the challenge will be posted on my blog:
http://www.chess.com/blog/redgoo/30-day-spartan-tactic-challenge
If anyone wants to join and accomplish the challenge go right ahead. Just finished my 5th day and already seeing big changes in my understanding of the game and tactical positioning. 100 successful puzzles a day with an increasing rating difficulty is becoming a headache, but I'm very confident I will finish the challenge and probably increase my rating by 25% at the end of October.
This is your daily chart from yesterday. Your tactics rating of 1004 hasn't changed much from the 962 rating when you started.
I still think you would be much better off taking more time per problem, perhaps twice as much on average, and doing far fewer problems.
I think you should take as much time as you need on any problem until you are sure of the right move. You are averaging about 20 seconds per problem. I think that is too fast to make sure of a good answer.
Inspired by your post, I have been doing problems myself for the last month. I am averaging about a minute per problem and have been making good progress with my tactics rating, raising it from 1496 on September 7th to 1604 today.
22 days already completed, mustering the will to finish the next 9, be sure to tune in!!!
Challenge continued at:
http://www.chess.com/blog/redgoo/30-day-spartan-tactic-challenge 
Challenge continued at:
http://www.chess.com/blog/redgoo/30-day-spartan-tactic-challenge
Prologue: The Spartan City State (Sparta) produced what is probably the most iconic military in ancient history. The ancient Spartan warriors were known for their bravery, professionalism and tactical skills in and out of combat. At their zenith they proved themselves to be the best of the Greek hoplite warriors, the premier fighting force of their time. All spartan men were required to enter and live in the war academies from the ages of 7 to 30, and were encouraged to serve as lifelong soliders. Spartans had to prove their fitness even as infants, and were ritualistically beaten and flogged for minor mistakes. To the Spartan warrior: death came before dishonor, and retreat meant cowardice and betrayl to the state. The spartan warrior is the culmination of decades of extreme hardships and deprivation all aligned to mold a grandmaster caliber warrior.
In honor of the ardous Spartan way of life, I will devoute an entire month to a chess campaign. I will attempt to successfully accomplish atleast 100 chess puzzles per day consistently with absolutely no down days to improve my tactical abilities in chess. The chess puzzles will be generated by the tactic trainer and will geometrically scale in difficulty depending on my current rating.
In total, approximately 3,100 tactic puzzles will be solved between the periods of 9/21/2014-10/21/2014. I will document the impact of this experiment on my online competitive performance and the rating measured by the tactic trainer.
My starting performance is as iilustrated:
Day 1: +54 Rating (103 Successful out of 213 Attempts = 48.35% Success Rate)
Notes: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step!
Day 2: -55 Rating (100 Successful out of 217 Attempts = 46.08% Success Rate)
Notes: Implemented a punishment system which would require me to finish the failed puzzles in order to move to the next puzzle. All completed failed puzzles will still be declared as a failure attempt.
Day 3: +76 Rating (100 Successful out of 198 Attempts = 50.50% Success Rate)
Notes: First time in my challenge I exceed 50% success rate.
Day 4: +3 Rating (103 Successful out of 204 Attempts = 50.49% Success Rate)
Notes: Peaked 1066. Starting to realize checkmate oppertunities more often. Forks, skewers and discovered attacks are primarly what I'm seeing most.
Day 5: -47 Rating (100 Successful out of 207 Attempts = 48.3% Success Rate)
Day 6: +58 Rating (100 Successful out of 193 Attempts = 51.81% Success Rate)
Note: My tactic trainer rating peaked at 1099 and I achieved the highest success rate with the puzzles since the challenge began. Very confident with the challenge.
Tactic experiment continued at:
http://www.chess.com/blog/redgoo/30-day-spartan-tactic-challenge