What Time Control works best for you?

Just trying to find out what Time Control is the most popular and which one I should choose: 1 min? 2|1? 3|2? 5|0? 5|5? 10|0? 15|10 Other?

PLEASE HELP ME CHOOSE!!!

It’s been written some where that 10 minutes is the most popular time control and thus the website over hauled their rating system from being a blitz format to rapid category.

So note, 10 minutes rapid is blitz by OTB standards.

With the new updated statistics in your profile, you can now view wins and losses by time outs and that will definitively display your best time controls.

In my personal example, 15/10, I had a 67% winning rate and no time outs.

Blitz winning rate dropped down and my time out losses was around 10%. 

Then bullet, winning rate went down to 50% but 67% of my losses was due to time outs being the biggest red flag!

This data clearly proves that I am a decent 15/10 player. May be cautiously play the odd blitz game for fun. Avoid bullet play like the plaque if I want to continually improve.

If I have time to play and enough energy, I prefer to play 10|0 but will probably switch to 10|10 or 15|10 to stop getting flagged all the time

If I don't have time or energy, I'll just throw some blitz games out 

How is your energy and concentration level at the moment?

I see you have numerous and a strong rating climb to show in less than a year which is very impressive.

Ive decided to take my time and pace things out because the tactical training is causing mental fatigue.

Well currently my sleep schedule is absolutely horrendous and I'm operating on about 5 hours of sleep everyday, so not much energy

Regarding concentration, I suppose it just depends on how recent I've had something with caffeine lol

I reckon my rating will probably stagnate for the rest of this year while I focus more on my college applications/SATs and whatnot, so probably not much rapid until at least January. Tbf my rating has already stagnated over the past month when I just got tired of grinding numerous games only to lose all my rating when I don't have energy or concentration. I'm just focused on slow improvement now, just making sure I don't lose any of my ability whilst I take a break from grinding rapid all the time

3/0

Hey best of luck in school; priorities.

It was pretty cool to see you do a rating climb in such a short amount of time and really enjoyed your participation in the forums.

Daily duh

But in live, 15|10+ is best for me. 

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