Average Time per move

Can someone please clarify something for me?

If I move, and then 1 hour later my opponent moves, and I move straight away. Will the ammount towards my average moved be counted as my move from when I had the chance to move, or from when I made my previous move?

If so, if someone you are playing against only makes 1 move per 5 days and I move within a couple of hours, does that mean my average move is being effected because of their slow moves, or because of my reasonably quick moves?

"from when you had the chance to move"

I believe I'm in the same situation as Alan.  I spend a lot of time playing chess on line and I make my moves as soon as my opponent makes theirs, however, my average time per move says nearly 6 hours?  This is not possible if my moves are made within minutes of my opponents move?  Is there anyway to correct this as it affects my being able to play in some tournaments?

You probably sleep or work at some point, and have your games sitting for eight hours. That bumps up your average quite a bit.

I also would like clarification regarding average time per move.  I am literally checking my games every hour or so and make my moves accordingly, but my average time per move is 4 and 1/2 hours.  This effects my being able to join some tournaments as they require under 3 hours?

I think ivandh made a valid point when he said "you probably sleep at some point". True? Whilst the lure of chess.com is great, it sure isn't great enough to make me get out of bed every hour in the middle of the night to check my games.

The under 3 hour per move tournaments are ridiculous, I have no idea how people move that quickly. Unless they play people who are always online at the same time as them, or other people who sit online all day and blitz 5 CC games per day out between them.

Not possible. Read post #4.

What kind of question is this?  No, of course not.

http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/123/0/how-is-average-time-per-move-calculated

Time per move is the time you made your opponents wait.

My ave is 3.15 per move, cant it be calculated over the last 50 games or so.?

I have over 1200 games, how do I bring it down to 3.00 per move.

Time zone diversity is murder (assuming you sleep for any amount of time). My location, Hawaii, is more than a little out of the way. When I get up every morning there are a zillion games waiting for a move. The only way for me (and by extension some others) to bring down my average time per move to under 3 hours (for those fast tournaments) is to either never sleep and stay on line all the time, or move to North America or Europe and only play against people in the same or nearby time zones.

But on the other hand, those tournaments that require an average time per move under 3 hours are a little silly. Correspondence chess isn't blitz; play live if you want to play fast. I understand wanting to finish a game in a reasonable amount of time but correspondence chess isn't supposed to be a race.

One way that average time per move could be decreased is with "pre-moves" (in correspondence chess, conditional lines).  If someone has premium membership, they can enter unlimited conditional lines, so if there is a sequence of say, 4 or 5 more or less forced moves, where you could map out the tree of all reasonable replies on a sheet of paper, then you could enter all the conditional lines in entirety, and get 4 or 5 moves added to the denominator with zero time added to the numerator (conditional moves get moved instantaneously).  This of course would greatly reduce time per move.  In fact, I suspect this is the only way some people get < 4 hours/move.

Chess.com wants you to be a premium member. They play the first couple of days in a legit fashion. Good competitive games. Then after the second week they start timing you out. Doesn’t matter how quick you move. Then they just have you lose w no explanation whether you are wining or not. The lack of integrity in chess.com is reprehensible. They want your money. 

The vast majority of members are basic  memberships. The site does not purposely cause connection problems fo any players.

https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues

I am wondering if I have a chance to get my movement time down to 12 hours.  Some TDs keep putting up a 7 day per move tournaments put restrict it to those who move in 12 hours or less.  It doesn't make sense buuut....

how do i check my average time per move?

It's not available anywhere anymore and I don't know if it's coming back. You can always suggest adding it back via Help > Make a Suggestion

Still available via API, Use this link

https://api.chess.com/pub/player/[username]/stats

Look for param "time_per_move". The result is in seconds, so divide by 60 to get minutes, etc.

API results are in JSON, so depending on browser, might look messy. Use firefox if you have