It was rated 1500 in July of last year and had been completed an additional 8,000 times since then. I guess it is possible a bunch of people at higher ratings started missing it, causing it to increase in rating. Could also be related to the new scoring mechanisms and some people with higher ratings have been missing it too.
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A lot of us players have been complaining, relatively politely, about the new conditions in the Tactics Trainer. But whoever set up the parameters now is so far off, that those of us paying for the trainer deserve to complain now in blunt terms. My 1100 rated high school players would have spotted this mate-in-2 with so few pieces on the board within a couple minutes and "smelled blood," as IM Danny Rensch puts it, right away. But chess.com says it is a 2045 level problem??? And I get 15 points for solving it in 33 seconds??? It's been days since I last missed a solution and I do Tactics Trainer problems every day., For months I've been averaging 5 out of every 6 and averaging much longer than the "target time" - not counting the insane "5 second" and similar ones.
FIX THE TACTICS TRAINER CHESS.COM!!! Even with it's faults, as the musical L'il Abner's song goes: "Put 'em back, the way they was!"
Here the problem began White to move with the WR on c8, the WK originally on e5 and the BR on g3: