1. **Consistent Practice**: Dedicate regular time to puzzle solving. Your perseverance is already evident, and consistent practice will reinforce your pattern recognition skills.
2. **Analyze Mistakes**: Whenever you make a mistake, take the time to understand why it happened. Analyzing your mistakes helps in avoiding similar errors in the future.
3. **Focus on Tactics**: Puzzle Rush often presents tactical motifs like pins, forks, skewers, and discovered attacks. Familiarize yourself with these tactical themes, and they'll become easier to spot during the game.
4. **Variety in Puzzles**: Don't stick to just one source for puzzles. Explore different puzzle sets to encounter a wider range of positions and challenges.
As for improving your rapid chess, here are some tips:
1. **Work on Time Management**: Practice playing games with shorter time controls to improve your speed and decision-making under time pressure.
2. **Study Openings**: Knowing common opening lines can save you time in the early stages of the game, allowing you to reach middlegame positions faster.
3. **Analyze Your Games**: Review your games to identify recurring mistakes or weaknesses, and focus on addressing them in your practice sessions.
On a personal note:
I find the earlier stages of Survival more difficult than when I reach over 100ish. Probably because it has been set to be more random and much more puzzle options to come up in that stage, vs. over 100. The puzzles repeat, and I've memorized the sets. I'm a 29-year-old with Cerebral Palsy who's in a power chair for most of the day. I can't do much, but I can do chess, and more puzzles than playing games nowadays. I spend over 8+ hours a day doing them.
My actually puzzle rating is between 2500-2700. I have almost 50 hours on puzzles, and as much as I don't like to compare my progress to others I see people with 1/5 of the time and already are at 3000. I know a big issue I have is guessing, but I am trying to erase that, however I am starting to spend at least 1-2 minutes on most puzzles, which I think is a good amount of time, and some I still getting them wrong, some that are very easy, I do around an hour or two a day, some may think that's a bit obsessive but I actually enjoy doing puzzles and a lot of people tell me that's what I should be doing at my level. Anyways the point of this is like how do I get the most out of them do I calculate until I get to the solution because I try to do that than I realize I use an impractical amount of time, time I would not use in say a 15|10 game. like 5 minutes than I get discouraged because my brain is taking so long to find the solution that I just guess, like I heard chess.com puzzles were easy and it seems as if they aren't and that I just can't find the solutions, anyways any advice would be appreciate like advice on how I should approach chess.com puzzles. Because I have done almost 5,000, and for the last 3000 I haven't gotten over 2700, which just makes me feel as if I can't get better at them like I know things take time but I am putting in tons of time with little to no good results.