Does the wood pecker method actually help?

In this forum I want your an only your personal opinion on it, not that GM or IM or coach, your opinion.

If you dont know what it is kindly look at this, https://www.academia.edu/41007921/The_Woodpecker_Method_by_Axel_Smith_and_Hans_Tikkanen

Does the woodpecker method actually help, I'm thinking I can about 30 minutes per day, what section should I do first?

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I don't really know the method, but if as the name suggests it has something to do with repetition then yes chances are it works, like most things the more you do and practice and repeat the better you'll get at it

If you remember the key points and take time to find how to use it in a game, yes

Yes it does i did it like a lot and it helped me inc my rating in otb as well as online I do it nowadays to but not often

start from first if you feel hard you can avoid the advance puzzles for some time till you get good exp in basic and intermediate

I understand

it does but only if you follow the prescribed way of answering the exercises. of course it would still help if you treat it like any other puzzle book, but that's not the point of the book. the main area for me that it helped a lot with was the clarity of visualization especially if there are many branches. and i didn't even finish the book. i have done the method way back though, when it didn't have the fancy woodpecker name. i had a set of 300 diagrams and repeated the cycle until i can answer every single one in a few seconds. it is draining. i guess that's why very few people ever get really decent at chess. i don't count myself as one but i'm pretty close i suppose.

I do not believe it helps that much. It does no harm and it is probably more useful than opening study.

A 2000 FIDE player told me this in a similar post I made: Doing the same amount of work, but with different tactics puzzles books will undoubtedly bring much greater benefit. There are several tactics puzzles that I did when I was 12 that I still remember, despite never having done them again. You're much better off exposing yourself to as great many and varied of puzzles as possible, because improving your pattern recognition is not dependent on doing the same set of puzzles over and over, faster and faster. You'll benefit from improved pattern recognition by doing tactics puzzles, and the more you do, the better. Despite regularly doing the woodpecker method on the tactics puzzle book he used (volume I of a two volume work, by the way), one of the authors plateaued years before he finally reached the goal of solving them all inside 24 hours he'd set himself. That he finally scored his last GM norm to clinch the GM title a couple of tournaments after this feat was purely accidental. No doubt you will see great improvement after doing The Woodpecker Method once, but that's because you've done a book of tactics puzzles and worked at it with great focus, not because you're supposed to repeat them over and over (that would just be like any other memory exercize). Keep up the hard work, but with other puzzle books. 

So while the “method” may not be all they say it is, I would still highly recommend you pick it up just as a general tactics book. The puzzles in it are great especially for someone at your strength

About 20 years ago Micheal de la Maza wrote a book called "Rapid Chess Improvement" and this woodpecker BS copied that system. Anyways...I agree with the guy above ☝

I'm sure it helps, especially with your tactical abilities.

Though I would still combine it with other forms of study, if you truly want to get the most improvement.

Other areas that you should also be spending your time (at your level): opening study, analysis of your games, and review of grandmaster games ...