lichess.org
Donate

Are puzzles more difficult now?

In the past few days, the puzzles seem to be getting tougher. I used to be in the 2000 bracket but now I've fallen to 1600s. Are the puzzles getting more difficult or am I getting dumber?
I noticed a huge variation in puzzle difficulty... sometimes it gives me 4 or 5 very hard ones in a row, other times it gives me 4 or 5 very easy ones in a row. It's almost like it's not taking into account the puzzle rating.
They are wayyyyyyyy easier than before the big puzzle overhaul like a year or so ago, where puzzle themes were added. To be honest they are shit now. I get such easy ones with an inappropriately high rating, it has made me lose all respect for lichess puzzles. Still don't know why they had to dump the old database which was really good, just to add themes.
@actuallyautistic said in #5:
> 78 puzzles in 1 day is a tad bit unhealthy imo.

I didn't even notice I solved 78 yesterday :o (no wonder I failed to meet my work deadlines)

But surely lichess can reuse the old puzzles which I have failed to solve right?
The really interesting part is that you solved 62 of these 78 puzzles correctly (almost 80%), yet dropped by 176 rating points.

That rather looks like the puzzles you did were way too easy for you (yielding few points for correct ones, but losing a ton for incorrect ones), not the other way round.
@cycliccircle said in #6:
> I didn't even notice I solved 78 yesterday :o (no wonder I failed to meet my work deadlines)
>
> But surely lichess can reuse the old puzzles which I have failed to solve right?
No, because you remember it (you could've seen the answer)
@ProfDrHack said in #8:
> The really interesting part is that you solved 62 of these 78 puzzles correctly (almost 80%), yet dropped by 176 rating points.
>
> That rather looks like the puzzles you did were way too easy for you (yielding few points for correct ones, but losing a ton for incorrect ones), not the other way round.

Oh right. Because I was finding the normal level puzzles too difficult, I switched to easy level puzzles. I suppose that explains how I solved 78 puzzles and lost 176 points.

This topic has been archived and can no longer be replied to.