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pdpain

Are there any suggestions on how I ca improve my time per move. I'm currently at 3:15 and apparently to slow for the Chess.com Quick Tournaments. I thought I was playing very quickly as I go on everyday and generally play most games where it is my move. I mostly play online; does playing Live chess have an effect on this statistic?

notmtwain
pdpain wrote:

Are there any suggestions on how I ca improve my time per move. I'm currently at 3:15 and apparently to slow for the Chess.com Quick Tournaments. I thought I was playing very quickly as I go on everyday and generally play most games where it is my move. I mostly play online; does playing Live chess have an effect on this statistic?

That statistic should be changed so it is over the last 90 days, like the timeout statistics. I think it presently includes your entire history.  If you took a day or longer per move at some point, it can take a very long time to reduce your average.  

With nearly 1000 games in your history, you would have to play within 2 hours on about 250 games to lower your average below 3 hours.