Blitz and Bullet Hurtful?

Are blitz and bullet chess games hurting my chess ability? I would love to get better at chess and I was wondering if I should drop these two styles of play? What do you reccomend instead?

Thanks!

~Happy

40.3% of your games on this site have been in those formats. I would say that you have a very healthy distribution of formats.

If you want to get better at blitz, then play blitz. If you want to get better at longer games, play longer games.

I think that's nonesense. Playing blitz is a great way of quickly gaining experience of positions/situations that can applied to longer formats whether you found the right solution in the blitz game or not.

If there is such a thing as playing blitz smartly, I'd say that you need to strategize how you distribute games and which time settings you choose. Total beginners should play only regular time control games. Only after they become comfortable with that, after they looked at some lessons or watched some instruction videos, read a book or two, then they should start playing blitz more regularly than occasionally. Start with 10 minutes first to get a feel for it. Then gradually reduce. If you notice that at 5 or 3 minutes setting you end up making many random moves just to avoid losing time then I think benefit stops there. At that point go up in time.

In my opinion whether you do well or not in Blitz games, at least you should make sure you don't end up being totally bad moves and blunders. If you feel that you actually make moves that look more or less reasonable then, even if you lose, you still playing a "normal game".

Now with 1 minute bullet chess I think most people do not benefit from it at all. I believe it should never be less than 3 minutes per side. One minute is just too mindless IMO. Especially if you play that over a table it's ridiculous.

Thanks for the opinions guys!

Just make sure you aren't moving too quickly in your regular games.  I think the biggest threat of blitz and bullet is just moving too quickly when you don't have to.

Not good with poor net connection especially if you are winning.

The only nonsense here is you. Why would we need to hear or consider your chess-improving related opinions when you are just a basic 1700 raging dude on Correspondence chess?

I thought we were friends 

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1013454

The man on the right was apparently good at speed chess.