... In my mind I'm going to move those three pieces to those three squares and there will be sheer joy, then onto the next puzzle but I didn't have a chance to move the other two pieces, I was ready to, but couldn't because I was halted with a negative point total immediately without having a chance to give the puzzle what it wanted in the end result. I just took a different route to Grandma's house and when I got there she made me clean her entire house instead of eat the dinner she made for me, LoL....
Without a specific example, it's hard to point out the issue, but if the first move was wrong, that means you missed that your desired piece placement won't work for some other reason. In most tactics, the move order is required or the evaluation is going to be worse, likely much worse.
I've set a goal to reach 1900 doing puzzles and have accomplished that. Shooting for 2000 now and no I'm not a Chess intellect or hang with Magnus or anything like that. My score against humans is 890 something. Trying to figure out the disconnect there, anyway. My frustration with these puzzles, once again, is that they are all "written in stone". What I mean by that is that if you don't move, for example, Qd3 Bc4 and Rh5 in that exact order you fail, the Red number everywhere, hate, gnashing of teeth, babies are crying, jus' kidding. I understand that the same exact end result that that particular puzzle wants those 3 pieces to end up on those three squares in order to achieve a positive full point total for whatever that particular puzzle lesson is awarding variant to the degree of difficulty involved, I also think that the grading or point system awarded per puzzle could use a once over as well. So, lately having really hit the puzzles hard to not only become a better Chess player but to try to achieve my points goal. Quite often now this situation would occur while training. In my mind I'm going to move those three pieces to those three squares and there will be sheer joy, then onto the next puzzle but I didn't have a chance to move the other two pieces, I was ready to, but couldn't because I was halted with a negative point total immediately without having a chance to give the puzzle what it wanted in the end result. I just took a different route to Grandma's house and when I got there she made me clean her entire house instead of eat the dinner she made for me, LoL. With Artificial Intelligence becoming more accessible now. Couldn't Chess.com incorporate this so our training is more fair and hi tech than stringent and Casio like ?