Struggling to achieve 1800 rating.

@swagmeister: Don't listen to those people who are just jealous of your nice rating (notice how they're all rated lower than 1700). You are indeed 1700, and to break 1800 is nothing but easy.

Remember, blitz ratings on this site are very underrated at the class player level! So indeed your 1400 rating could very well be 1700 OTB rating, especially if you're bad at blitz/speed chess, which no one cares that much about anyways. 

You might even be able to be world champion soon - it's just one step at a time.

@swagmeister: Don't listen to those people who are just jealous of your nice rating (notice how they're all rated lower than 1700). You are indeed 1700, and to break 1800 is nothing but easy.

Remember, blitz ratings on this site are very underrated at the class player level! So indeed your 1400 rating could very well be 1700 OTB rating, especially if you're bad at blitz/speed chess, which no one cares that much about anyways. 

You might even be able to be world champion soon - it's just one step at a time.

For the most part the OP is getting some sound advice, and is getting what he needs to hear, not what he wants to hear.  I dont align with this "make everyone feel good" mentality.  If you cant handle being told the truth, then dont ask. 

 That was a blitz game, but it shows what you have to learn not to do to reach 1800.

I think both aggressivesociopath and Bobbytalporov are right. Well IMbacon is right too. OK, pretty much everyone is right. Even good advice isn't going to do much good if you dont have a realistic understanding of where you are starting from. If the goal is to get to 1800, which is just a silly number, much of the advice is the same if you are starting from 700 or 1700. You may have been misled into believing you are at a 1700 level. Accept that maybe you are starting at 1400 or 1500 and want to get to 1800. It will be easier than if you falsely believe you are starting at 1700. I think that just like any other goal or endeavour, a lesser talented or skilled person will need more (or at least different) things than someone more advanced to get to that next level. If you believe you are 1700 you may not be willing to learn the necessary things to get to 1800, whereas someone who realistically understands he is a 1400 is eager and willing to learn the basics a 1700 probably already knows.

blitz games are nothing man, i dont usually play online anyways, i usually play against an engine for several hours a day.

Self-Esteem issues.

Inflated view on yourself.

Anger issues.

Chess may not be for you.

Blitz is too fast. I dont like internet long chess because I get bored. Long chess is better otb when you can walk around at look at the other tables.

Bt what about rapid? Rapid is fine on internet, partially  better than otb because we get automatic notations.

For the most part the OP is getting some sound advice, and is getting what he needs to hear, not what he wants to hear.  I dont align with this "make everyone feel good" mentality.  If you cant handle being told the truth, then dont ask. 

Playing a dumbed down engine proves nothing.

Um, 1800 engines are dumbed down, to the point that they play like a 2400 half of the time and like a 1200 the other half of the time. That makes them much easier to beat than normal 1800s, in that you can in theory score 50% against them when they don't blunder if you're 1800, but they will also blunder frequently playing like a 1200 for half of every game.

no buddy i dont think so. the engine rarely makes any mistakes or inaccuracies. where did u even get that dumbed down engine idea? it is rated at 1800 and that is it.