Unfair Rating Inflation Due to New Puzzle Rating System

I earned my 3300 puzzle rating the hard way — spending around 10 minutes average on each puzzle, solving 3000+ rated puzzles, and grinding every point carefully. Back then, each puzzle earned me 5 points, and it felt like a real achievement.

Now, players are skyrocketing from 2000 to 3300 within days by solving easy 1000-rated puzzles that give the same +5 points per puzzle. This has completely inflated the puzzle rating system and made it meaningless.

To make matters worse, the percentile and global ranking have been removed from the main profile page. You have to dig into the leaderboard to find your real standing — and thousands of people have overtaken me by “farming” points with easy puzzles.

Chess.com, this change is deeply unfair to those of us who genuinely worked hard to reach high ratings. The puzzle rating should reflect true skill and effort, not a points farm.

Please restore a fair and competitive ranking system, bring back percentile and ranking visibility on profiles, and respect the community that made this site great.

Thank you.

I got to 3100 legit but explains all of this change

As someone who just went from 2100 to 3100, I want the old system back aswell. The improvemt feels fake. Why would you keep feeding me 600 rated puzzles even at 3000+ ranking. It didn't make sense at 2000, let alone 3000. Even if I get one wrong from time to time, which will set me back about -30 points, the steady feed of super easy +5 puzzles is going to win no matter what. And what's even worse, it's not even fun. Please fix.

I agree,. I am not a high rated puzzle wizard but the current system is no fun. I want to challenge myself and that is not possible this way. Very disappointed.

Have you changed your Difficulty setting? Changing to Hard or Extra Hard should help.

I did not even know that existed. Also, my statistics were not updated. It was in 'off' modus.

I changed it, and tried with a few puzzles, but no difference.

The setting was called ' collecting points' (translated). I do not see a setting 'difficulty'

I love the new system my puzzle elo is over 4,000! I'm a better player than Magnus Carlson!

Currently that setting only shows in the website. It impacts apps as well and should be available in a future app version