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Piece animation makes accurate replaying game in real-time not possible for bullet games

Piece animation slows down the acual pace of the game. Is there a way to remove piece animation from analysis? Thanks everyone.
You can turn them off here: lichess.org/account/preferences/display

Usually, it's kinda hard to follow a game without animations though. And animations are skipped once the next move starts anyway so it should be pretty accurate. Keep in mind that there will always be network lag and lag compensation in a real game. The replay should roughly look how a spectator with an average connection would have seen it live.
The animation still gets applied in the analysis even when turned off, and in 30 second chess it makes a HUGE difference when replaying it back, it looks like its in slow motion.
That's definitely not how it looks to me. I just recorded spectating a random ultra-bullet game live and then compared it to the real-time replay and the replay even finished slightly faster. Not sure if your browser or something makes it much slower for you or the animations just make it feel slower even though it's really not.

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