Am I overrated or underrated?

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I took a break from chess for a few months and when I came back my elo rapidly increased. Over the past few games its been especially noticeable. In my past 11 games, I've won 9, tied 1, and lost 1 causing my elo to go from 1013 to 1072 in the past 11 games. This would make me thing I'm underrated but at the same time I don't understand why my elo would balloon from 900-950 ish to 1072 after taking a break from chess when I haven't studied chess much lately. On the other hand, I've had a few games recently where I feel I shouldn't have won as I was playing very poorly and losing significantly but my opponent blundered allowing me to win.

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Also for some reason, even though I hate playing as black because I have very little openings memorized for it my win rate as black is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than my win rate as white.

Avatar of LieutenantFrankColumbo

Openings dont decide your games. Blunders and tactics do.

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I played another game and won because my opponent blundered again, now I'm 1081. https://www.chess.com/game/143081303488

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I feel like I just got to 1000 elo and now I might reach 1100 elo from opponents playing horribly.

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I want to improve my elo but I don't want it to be because my opponents keep blundering, I want to have a hard game and feel like I deserved the wins.