How to cross 2500 tactics rating?


Oh my. If we showed them to you, you would rip your eyeballs out

Master the basic and simple tactics, as you progress you will know how to properly analyse a position. Finding best move on both sides is a must, there are many problems with interesting defenses and resources so you should be double checking your lines.
2500-2800 I think majority is an endgame problems, here's one example a 2873 rated problem:

For me, they are very difficult. Today I think I had 3 2700 rated problems. I got two wrong and one right. But the one I got right was 9 moves deep if I remember and it took me over 9 minutes to figure it out. I dont think I will be crossing 2500 any time soon. I wouldn't worry too much about rating when doing tactic problems. Just take your time and do the best you can. If you peak at 2200 that's still very good. Besides, chess.com allegedly has about 25 million members and a 2500 tactics rating puts you in an extremely high percentile, something like top couple thousand in the world.

I'm 1900 tactics rating and I noticed them suddenly getting much harder.
They were pretty easy back when I was 1600 rating. Everything was forced. They were either mating nets or forks or pins or skewers.
But now the tactics are becoming really difficult because things aren't forced. When you make a move, there's like 10 different responses that your opponent can choose, and you have to try to guess which one they'll do.
My guess is that the more you move up, the more open the board becomes. Tactics at the 2500+ level would involve really open boards with very few forced moves and hundreds of possibilities to calculate.


I'm at 2500 and to be honest they can be easy or hard. I'm 1600 rating wise and I can solve most of the 2500 rated puzzles but I was 2200 a few days ago but I just spent longer on puzzles and eventually I would find the solution. try and spend 2 minutes on each puzzle and it should be fine.