Recommendation(s) for best time control to improve

If you look at the games of people who ask this question they almost all resign in lost positions with more time on their clock than they started with.

If you don't plan on using all your time, than starting games with lots of available time is meaningless.

10 + 10 , 3+2 , 8+5 - i Like these time controls

Here are what I think the assumptions are:
1. Limited chess time per week
2. Below 2000 in lichess

So what to do?
1. Anyone below 2000 has chess thought process issues.
2. The best way to improve thought process is by doing it a lot, over and over.
3. A complete chess thought process cannot be done quickly, particularly in difficult positions. A thorough analysis of a position would take at least 20 minutes.
4. Playing blitz all the time creates bad habits thought processes, developing thousands of poor shortcuts.
5. Only by playing real classical chess would one have a chance of developing the habit of going through a good thought process, every move. Continuously.
6. Real classical games (at least 90 mins per side) seems out of the question. It's hard to find anyone to play this, and you don't have time.
7. You have limited chess time, what to do?

Suggestions:
PLAY CLASSICAL
1. Play classical chess using Lucas Chess. It has a lot of engines and personalities designed to mimic human play.
2. The best feature - it has adjourn. You can play for an hour per day, and if the game's not done, just continue tomorrow.

THOUGHT PROCESS EXERCISE
1. Thought process exercise - see Dan Heisman YouTube 20 minute exercise. This is really good for time-limited people like us.
2. Puzzles, treat them serious. Put them on a real board before solving. That way, you sort of get punished if you get the solution wrong. Imagine rushing your solution, and then you do it wrong. You just wasted time and effort in setting up the position on a real board.

CLASSICAL vs THOUGHT PROCESS
1. TP exercises improve one's TP.
2. But only classical can force you to develop the habit of doing the proper TP on each and every move. Stringing together a series of proper TP.

SUPER CRUDE ILLUSTRATION
1. Blitz: auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; critical position - think for a little; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move you blunder; auto-move; critical position - think for a little; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; opponent blunders auto-move; auto-move you blunder; opponent blunders auto-move; YOU WIN
2. TP exercise: 1 position - Think properly; you found the best continuation
3. Classical; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; auto-move; out of book - think using proper thought process; think carefully; think carefully; think carefully; think carefully; think carefully; think carefully; critical position - use full force proper thought process; critical position continues - use full force proper thought process;; think carefully; think carefully; think carefully; think carefully; think carefully; think carefully; found something which looks clearly winning - use full force proper thought process;
think carefully; think carefully; think carefully; YOU WIN
4. I hope this illustrates the major difference in terms of doing proper TP for the above chess activities.

Do you have good TP? Try this
1. Turn off engine evaluation in lichess
2. Ensure that the moves are hidden, also try not to see the results
3. Go to this position lichess.org/analysis/standard/r4r1k/ppp1qpp1/3pbn1p/4N1B1/4P3/1B1P3P/PPP3P1/R3QRK1_b_-_-_0_16
4. You play as Black
5. Do NOT move the board
6. Set it up on a real board
7. Give yourself 20 minutes

Questions:
1. What should Black play after 16. Nxe5 (a)?
2. Provide the 5-ply Principal Variation. 16. Nxe5 (a) 17. (b) (c) 18. (d) (e)
3. Provide the evaluation of the PV, who is better after (e)? Imagine how the position looks like after (e) and judge who is doing better. Equal? Slightly better? Much better? Clear win? For who?

LAST:
"What my main query is that what will have more improvement, playing more games or thinking more?"
1. You need to ensure that your thinking process is good in the first place.
2. IF your thinking process is poor, doing it lots of times won't improve the thinking process. You'll only harden the habits of poor thinking processes.
3. Even 20 | 10 is not enough time to train our brain into improving proper thought process.
4. Masters have already good thought processes, that's why they know how to properly do shortcuts and play blitz and bullet extremely well.
5. TP exercise position taken from lichess.org/k36wRhHn

probably rapid 10+5 or 15+10

A time control in which you rarely feel rushed.

Well try play 45 + 45 classical. I accually like more bullet and Blitz as I learn how to think faster.
U don't need to be fast, u just need to be smart. Gl Hf mate, may u become someone great!

I think it is 5+3 BLITZ because it has an adequate amount of time tension and the thing that makes chess chess (enough time to think)

Definitely play with increment. You want to improve your chess skills, there is nothing to be learned from a time scramble.

I'd recommend something between 10+5 and 15+15. This way you still get enough games in.

But most importantly: Analyze every game to actually learn from your mistakes.

@ThunderClap said in #7:
> When & Where is the Studying of Chess ? Play Study Study Play

Studying is included in my chess time as well. The 5 hours is my play time. Studying time is not included in this. Note 5 hours is only my play time and does not include my studying time. Studying time is different.

@MrPushwood said in #10:
> I think playing blitz can be useful, but I would only be inclined to recommend it (as a "training tool") once you're 2000+.
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> And yeah, you shouldn't just play. Studying should go along with it. When I was starting out I probably did too much studying vis-a-vis playing...but now it's much easier to get a game. :)
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> Anyway, 30-min has always been one of my favorite controls. I would recommend it here.
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> A word of caution though: being so focused on your improvement can (oddly enough) prove a detriment to your improvement. It's not like a job where you simply log the hours and gradually accrue improvement. Indeed, there may be times when it seems like you aren't improving at all; in fact, actually getting worse. At the end of my first year of OTB play, I was 1620. One full year after that I was 1634.
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> But you just have to keep on trying. It all has a way of evening out, I suppose. I was a 1700 player for around 3 weeks. :)
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> And there's also a danger in putting too much pressure on yourself. Botvinnik said objectivity is essential to good chess, and a state of calm (at least, as much as one can manage this) should only serve to fortify that.
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> It reminds me of this tourney OTB a while back. A promising young player, whenever he had a particularly long and intense think, would periodically let out these great gusts of breath (from all the pressure or whatever). I remember at one point catching an IM's eye, right as he was undoubtedly thinking the same thing I was: "How can you expect to find good moves when you're putting so much pressure on yourself?"

I'm sorry that I forgot to mention this but my studying time is not included in these 5 hours. I have additional time for studying. These 5 hours only include playing time, I have separate studying time.