Have you ever actually improved your Tactics Trainer rating?

The top graph is your daily attempts.  The blue means successful, and red mean failed.  So the full red bar means you missed all 3 that day.  The bottom graph is your actual rating.  And the colors signify how well you are doing.  Red means you dropped that many points since the day before, while blue means you improved over the score you logged off with the previous day.

They constantly add more from games here on the site.  You can actually submit neat tactics from your own games for approval.  At 3/day you would never see them all.  Not even close.  I do anywhere from 20-200 a day, and some days I see no repeats.

I used to be at around 1400.  Then got a few problems wrong.  Now i get 32 points when I get it wrong and 2 points when I get it right.  Can't climb out of that hole anymore.  And the problem difficulty leaps from 850 to 1430 with no progression.  Not sure that the tool is very helpful now.  

The speed element of it gets me too. If it was a real game you wouldn't be able to consider different moves or look for better moves if you had to move as fast as the tactics trainer wants you to. And for me the considering different moves rather than moving as soon as I see something, that mental dicipline makes a 200+ elo difference in my performance. The tactics trainer with a timer playes to my worst instincts of moving without working out if something is a cunning trap or if there is a better move that applies more pressure if its not critical to take immediatly, etc. If it had an option to play with a timer of say 3 minutes per move like a real game I'd like it a lot better.

Today I just reached my highest TT rating ever (1402). So yes, I am improving my TT rating.

Let's make it happen!

In about 8 months I improved from ~800 to 1700

in about 2 months I improved from 1200 to 1700

in about 2 months I improved from 1200 to 1700

Tactics trainer gives about a minute or minute and half for most puzzles. Thats about a time you would get in a rapid game per move. I think tactics trainer score is a good reflection of rapid game score.

I learnt most of my chess with tactics trainers and youtube videos. And yep, I did improve my tactics trainer ratings. I'd say solving puzzles is the best way to learn and improve in chess apart from playing chess.

my tactics rating is better than you and pass rate is also better than you

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So? Why are you telling me that? My earlier post was not addressed to you.

Oh!

Yes to be exactly, I have improved it 388 times now

Yes. It was as low as 1040 when I started. It's currently 1302, but it was over 1400 for quite some time.

Yes, I've improved. But chess.com has played with the algorithm more than once this year sending us skyrocketing up then plummeting down, so the rating a chess.com over 2017 is impossible to use as a judge of progress.  If chess.com ever finds a good solution to its rating system - where you don't lose 9 points for seeing a mate in 4 instead of the correct mate in 3 but only get one point in the next problem for a seven-move mate - I think we'll be able to judge our progress, though we should expect to hit plateaus and experience some ups and downs along the way.

Another site has kept its algorithm constant and here's my 2017 progress there. You can see that I hit a plateau of just over 1600 last winter, jumped to just over 1700 then dropped to another plateau around 1650, then a recent burst saw me hit a new high of 1723.6 and has me consistently around 1700 or more.

So yeah, I see progress.  Look at the 2nd graph below of my rating fluctuations in July and you can see the light colored bars (raised rating) are much more numerous than the dark bars (lowered rating) and I usually moved upward a few days in a row before a setback., I do problems every day and usually several of them. I hope that makes 1700 a new base from which to jump up.

I started as a complete beginner at less than 1100 (edit: my bottom rating was about 750!) and slowly, but surely rose to 1400+ in about 3-4 months. I even had a peak at around 1700-1750, so I guess I was more focused then.

I'm fairly certain that if I keep at it for 2-3 years I'll reach 2500, which is my goal.

Edit: "Lowest 782 Oct 29, 2014"