One week ago I was rated 2120...

.....now, a week later, I have dropped 200 points to 1923 as I type this.

Is this a record?

I am playing exactly as I always have but my opponents (some much weaker), are getting the most amazing breaks in game after game after game!!

So, so weird.

That's the way it goes I guess. I still keep on trying to reach 2000, in order to do that I try to play only 2000+ players, it's tough but I've improved a bit last few days. Back to ur question, I have no idea if this is a record(to lose 200 points in a week) but I know that ther are good and bad days, on a bad day I can easy drop 100 points in 15-20 games.

Well who cares for rating ? The improtant is that you have now got much more experinece and you will be able to get your points back if you try a little bit

Man it's bullet, just a bit of fun, bullet ratings are close to meaningless

Don't be ridiculous.

This happens on bullet all the time, happened to me a few times.

To say bullet ratings don't matter and that it's only a bit of fun as Campione has is like telling Usain Bolt the same thing about the 100 metre sprint and that only the times of the middle and long distance runners mean anything!!

Insane remark.

Unlike sprint in athletics, bullet is not a recognized competitive discipline in chess. There are no world championships or national championships or top-level OTB tournaments in it. The masters who play bullet on the Internet play it for fun.

 I guess it depends on you if it matters to you or not. For me bullet rating is important cause that is the game I play the most and I like to show off before my friends  ...on the other side not much too show so far .

Bullet ratings don't matter. Fun? Yes. Chess? No. You can't compare running to chess, that is a bit ridiculous.

But we can use your example of asking the professional his opinion. Nakamura, recognized as the best bullet player ever, wrote a book very recently on the subject of bullet chess. First page he states that BULLET IS NOT CHESS.

 Nakamura may have his opinion, I can have mine. Bullet IS a chess only very, very fast. Sure there are plenty of mistakes but it is the same game.

Allow me to expand. I'm not saying it doesn't matter altogether, but that it's not relative to your real chess strength. It is only a sign of how good you are at bullet and, on this site, bullet ratings are way inflated. It's not too hard for an intermediate player like me to get a 22-2300 bullet rating here, but my real chess strength is nothing like that - indeed, it's 1800+ on a very good day. So what I'm really saying is your chess.com bullet rating is inflated by about 500 points. I think some people here think they're getting very strong because they're over that magic 2000 mark in bullet or short time-limit blitz (some people, I'm not saying you). But they're fooling themselves. I had a mild case of this disease myself - it's seductive because you have a high number. But I now realise real chess improvement is much different than that (and also, if it happens, much more fulfilling than a good run of bullet results). To plan where you want to go you need a realistic assessment of where you are, and judging yourself on a 1-3min rating is foolhardy. Much better to look at your OTB or standard chess.com rating.

By all means play bullet for fun, and try to get as high a rating as you can, but remember, standard chess is a very different type of game.

i have the same problem

Now down to 1863

I am losing 4 of every 5 games against people I was toying with a week ago.

A chess rating on an internet site is like a "paper moon hanging over a cardboard sky." Its not real, its meaningless, its make believe!

Unless, you're a pro---using your real name! 

One week? I've lost points at a ratio of 200 per hour

 For some people rating on a chess site is meaningless - especially bullet rating, for me it is kinda important because it's like a small reward it makes me feel better when I see that I'm making some progress but I won't cut myself when I lose points... ok maybe I will if I go below 1800 . Right now I'm happy - I just got to above 2000 for the first time . 

LOL

Well, this may break the record for worst analogy!

In the example about track, at least some speed matters -- for any distance. In chess, 99% of the profound strategy and tactics that make this game so beautiful you can't figure out because you have to keep not hanging pieces in the minute you have to play in bullet. Some are better at it than others, but still you're limiting what you can find out and so to make it the only form of chess you play is to really miss out. Chess in some ways loses its identity when it has to be played in a way that the latent strategy can't be figured out.

 I think the analogy was ok. I don't know why people have such a hard time accepting that bullet is a form of chess just like traditional 2h/40moves, rapid, blitz, correspondence etc. with all the blunders, insane checking it's still chess. Just like in running there are different distances so in chess we have diffrent time control.