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Why do I still suck at Blitz?

I want this post to be deleted. I don't think I will get any helpful answers anyway.
While I'm not really one to answer the question, having a much lower rating, I will say that whenever I'm not doing good, just taking a break for a couple weeks and playing casual games with higher time controls such as 10 or 15 minutes helps me get off of a bad streak:)
Not trying to be mean; just stating a fact:

Because your rating is heavily inflated.
You have only played FIVE people less than a 1700 Rating.
Less than 10 less than 1800.

So all of your 3.6K Games have been against people over 1800. Keeping your rating the same. Your win loss ratio is just over 50/50.

Plus; you berserk 50% of the time; meaning you do so against people at your skill level or better.

Seems you might benefit from opening up your game search to include all ratings; to open yourself up to unique games. As games where your opponent doesn't follow the same cookie cutter openings is where it appears you have the most trouble.

It also benefits to have a good mouse. I use a laptop trackpad; which is idiotic to be using for blitz lol. But, Its what I have ATM.

A good gaming mouse I've used is a Razer. Never had a complaint when I had it.
Can also help to have lower Res on your monitor; Less screen area to cover per click.
I suck at blitz also. Badly.

I think too long in critical positions, generally my play tends to be less intuitive than exhaustively rational, and my mouse hand isn't exceptionally fast.

I also want to solve every opening novelty I see rather than just play against it.

Just be happy if you suck at classical chess less than blitz :)
And please don't take @breakreign 's advice; playing against lower-rated players just means you win more games, not that you don't suck at blitz.

Maybe we should start a sucking at blitz club.
@dRr0x0rZZ
No it wont. If anything; he'll lose more games and his rating will balance out to somewhere in the 1700 range; where it should (probably) be.

Playing against the 1.9K + Rated people he constantly plays against he only gets to see a handful of play styles; not being surprised and instead of having to use thought and critical thinking; he uses memorization and repetition.

My suggestion was not that he play people who suck. It was that he opens himself up to unique games; which setting your rating selector from 800-3000 will provide.

I guess I'm gonna have to get myself up to 2000-2500 or so just so you goofballs won't look at me like, whys this guy talkin? Lel.

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@breakreign What do you mean by "his rating will balance out somewhere in the 1700 range"? He's rated 2100 blitz. Why would playing lower rated opponents bring his rating down 400 points?
@DubiousChess

Opened his profile right before I typed that; had been playing Crazyhouse. Looked at his crazyhouse rating (1824) when I typed that.
No. Didnt mean anything that extreme hahaha

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