Buy a tactics book and solve it several times till the tactics become second nature to you.
How to Improve Tactics
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@zizgz @muhammadkhan11 Well there are a lot of things.
The first is that when I made this thread I still hadn't started studying chess seriously. I wasn't playing that much (probably less than five hours a week), and wasn't taking lessons with a coach, nor was I playing in tournaments at the time. All that has changed (except atm I don't have a coach, although I did for a long time).
With regard to tactics specifically, I don't know exactly. I can tell you I still miss obvious stuff all the time. I had a tournament game against a 2000 recently (I actually still ended up winning, although this was incredibly lucky) where I missed a simple tactic involving a knight sacrifice creating a discovered check due to forgetting to play the prophylactic Kh1...and just today in a blitz game I played on another site I actually made almost the exact same mistake. I'm still not a very good player. Just a lot better than I was at the time.
The most important thing that improves your chess is playing with and surrounding yourself with players who are stronger than you. The "chess company" that you keep should be very strong, and you should be able to learn when you play people. This means your practice games, and especially your chess club opponents. If you are the strongest player at the chess club you go to, then you likely don't have anything to learn by going there. You need to befriend and study with people who are very good, people from whom you can learn. This will help you in every aspect of the game.
Another factor, I admit, is the fact that I was fourteen when I posted this thread, and from December 2013 to December 2014 (when I really started studying seriously), I gained about 700 points in USCF rating. That type of improvement is not really possible in such a short burst from an older player, and I know that. But over a longer period, I'm sure it is possible, particularly since that burst was from 1100 (beginner-ish) to 1800 (competent, but not that great), which is not as big a jump as it seems.
Currently my USCF rating is 1932, and you can look me up in the USCF registry. My name is Dennis Norman, and I live in Maryland. If you have any other questions, ask me. Thanks.