It was a hard test. I didn't monitor the time I spent but I'm sure it was over four hours. I scored 2212, plus or minus.

My bet is you would have scored higher had you spent more time.

To anyone captivated by the promise this test provides, turn away. It's a fun test but it inflates your score.

Take the test thbreweryofanimosity lets see what you get

Based on your move choices, our estimate of your Elo rating is 1656, with a 95% confidence interval of [1515...1797].

Lol, at least not on chess.com... unless the competition is really high here. I tend to go between 1350-1500 on blitz, I don't play standard so maybe I'd do better there, I do lose a lot of games on time (the space button on my laptop sticks) but not enough for that high of a jump. Lately I've noticed I can compete and even get ahead of players in tournaments ranked up to 1800  but I usually end up losing to anything above 1600 by making a last second blunder in my overconfidence. 

Perhaps this is a signal that my tactics aren't the problem but my strategy and openings? I have felt like I regressed on those lately.

4 hours?? I spent 20 minutes max on it lol

I spent 10

The site is so slow

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Based on your move choices, our estimate of your Elo rating is 2119, with a 95% confidence interval of [1992...2246].

If I spent 4 hours like ipcress12 I am sure I would have gotten even higher.

My God. Could it be there is a relationship between how much time and effort one puts into a test and the final score?

Zounds!

Yet we have people complaining how the test is crap because they scored low when they couldn't be bothered to spend even a minute per problem on the test.

ipcress12 the longer you think the bigger are the chances that your move is correct. Alo Mathai444 what the firetruck how do you cheat and have a low rating. I am pretty sure you suck at cheating.

I guess Mathai is suggesting that his opponents cheating held im back.

Who could have known?

So why didn't you spend more time on the test and try to get a higher score?

By the way, I come to a similar opinion from the opposite side of things.. Just went through the whole thing in dunno maybe 40 minutes and got an result (ELO 1735) that is certainly much higher than my real chess strength. My confidence interval started with 1601. If i didn't blunder as much as I do, I might be able to reach 15XX, maybe even come near to the 1600, but from my understanding, 1600 at chess.com is not quite the same as 1600 ELO.

Meaning that I didn't take as much time as I probably should have, still got un unexpectedly high result out of it and therefore think that this test might not be as reliable as it should be to be taken seriously.

But then, some of the tactic problems here at chess.com that I find ridiculously easy because of pattern recognition have surprisingly high ratings, and with some problems from the test I got the same feeling, so maybe it's just that those tests tend to play at my strengths rather than my weaknesses

Yet we have people complaining how the test is crap because they scored low when they couldn't be bothered to spend even a minute per problem on the test. NO! I spent no time at all, yet scored 400 points HIGHER!

ipcress12 because I felt I didn't have to. It wouldn't have been fun for me. I am glad that I got such an inflated rating with just 15 minutes.

TameLava I had the same experience as you. 

The questions/problems in this test are ok, but they have seriously miscalculated the ratings. Perhaps the results can be used as ego boost or to comfort yourself.

My score was 1717 and i was tired when i did it. My tactics score on this site is 1213 and i am having a hard time beating 1300-ish players in tournaments..

Based on your move choices, our estimate of your Elo rating is 2565, with a 95% confidence interval of [2380...2749].

No, actually this is not accurate. There are way to many positions included that I knew already and so it took less than 30 minutes to do it.

Besides it is much easier once you know there is a best or only move. In real play you have to decide between different moves which seem to be same quality, but often enough are not.

The positions in the Volokitin book are a much better test.