Tactics trainer, What's more important to you?

Rating.... or.... Pass rate?

I have a decent tactics rating but only a pass rate of slightly over 50%.

Now I'd like to nuance that pass rate with the fact that I did so many problems that it would take probably a couple of hundred right ones and zero wrong ones to significantly improve it.

Just like it's hard to increase you're average opponent rating after you've played several hundreds of games against opponents in a certain rating limit.

But still I'd prefer a higher pass rate over a high rating. Sometimes I see part of the solution or think it's a logical move and play it, and then play it out ''on the go'' not thinking the entire problem out from the start.

Other times I flat out guess the move or think the move was good for completely different reason than the solution.

So maybe this is another rhetorical thread but still, How do you guys tackle this?

Is the rating not a result of your pass rate (and your average speed) on the challenges at different levels?

I guess, but I think you can either get your rating up by solving fast AND making mistakes, or by solving slow and not making mistakes if you get what I mean, way too tired to think that sentence through :P

I think a pass rate of 50% means the problems you are getting are pretty much suited to your rating.

Same way as a 50% score in your matches mean your are preyty well matched with your opponents.

good point

I like to think the entire tactic from the start. No point in trying something I have no clue leads to. my experience is that rating will come when I deserve it, pass rate and rating isn't important ...
sometimes you will get the point of the tactic within seconds.
I will never look at the solution. The same tactic may come 2 or 3 times before I understand it.

Does anybody know how the rating is calculated? You have rating of the problem, correct or false, time to solve probably in the formula.

As far as I understand:

look at the problem as a game between you ant the problem itself. If you "win" (solve) gou gain rating, and the problem loses rating. If you Lose (fail) the poblem gains rating, and you lose.

You make a great point about rating comming when you deserve it. I worry more about learning from each tactic. Personally I like to spend a good deal of time studying the solution if I fialed a tactic. This helps me to learn much faster then if I tried to hunt and peck my way to the correct answer. Just my own preference and granted my current tactics score is horrible! Thats what comes from doing tactics after duble shifts at work!