Is it just me or people with rating 1000-1100 (bullet) play worse than those with 850-1000?
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Knight_king1014
Oct 5, 2022
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Is it just me or people with rating 1000-1100 (bullet) play worse than those with 850-1000?
Oct 6, 2022
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#5
Based on my own experience: 900 are better than 1000 and 1100. 1300 and 1400 are better than 1500. And then things go more normally
Oct 7, 2022
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#7
This post is nonsense.. but.. maybe you start seeing some deliberate "Lefong"s in the 1100 level and think that's just terrible play? 
"Lefong"s are when you make legal moves that threaten a piece or a heavy piece but the move itself actually loses your own piece cleanly, but it's a bullet thing where you try to steal the material if your opponent is pre-moving...
Named after FM Lefong Hua 
Tarma-95 wrote:
Based on my own experience: 900 are better than 1000 and 1100. 1300 and 1400 are better than 1500. And then things go more normally
Weird, but yes I agree. My personal explanation is that 1000s and 1100s try to play faster at the expense of worse moves, whereas 900s play better moves at the expense of more time on the clock. I guess for time controls like 1|0, the first strategy is more effective, especially at lower ratings
Oct 7, 2022
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#9
I usually try to make good moves but I try not to waste more than 2-4 seconds a move
Dec 3, 2023
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#10
I have seen this also and It might even be due to reaching a 1000 and over that you don't play so hard as a 900. Maybe the number 1000 has a sense of completion or maybe I am saying complete nonsense. I don't know but I definitely see 900's playing a lot grittier.
Dec 4, 2023
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#11
maybe because 1000-1100 rated players move quicker then 800-1000 therefore make more blunders
I’m at 1000 bullet and I played like 750 bullet games and I agree that 1000-1150 players usually are slow but play quiet well and like 800-950 play like pre-moves all the time and they are tough!
Feb 17, 2024
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#13
I have noticed the exact same thing. Maybe some function of the level that Chess.com starts people at? I have forgotten but if Chess.com starts people at 800 when in fact the average actual rating of someone starting bullet is actually 1000 then they will be making the 800 level actually harder than say 900 because they have people who are rated 200 points below their actual level.
Feb 17, 2024
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#14
this is generally a rule on this site through out all time controls, 800-900 are toughest ones for some reason, be it blitz rapid whatever
It is true. People in my rating range will hang their queens on move 10, and try to flag you
