995 ELO improvement in a bit more than a year

Today, I got to 2269 bullet, with a peak rating of 2274. Just a bit more than a year ago, I was 1279, my lowest bullet rating ever. So, that is a 995 rating points improvement in just a bit over a year! I feel pretty proud about this achievement.

(My blitz rating improved by around 1100 rating points, but I think bullet is played by more top players so I care about it more)

Congrats but it is not Elo on Lichess, it is Glicko-2.

@Yeltcki

Thanks! I changed ELO to rating points.

I guess rapid comes next to be improved right ?

@T3SC

Haha, the point is that when I first signed up for lichess, I only played bullet and blitz. I only played rapid when I was slightly better when I first started playing on lichess (which was in mid-August), so that's why my lowest rapid rating is 1417. I will have to get it to 2400 for that to happen, which will be hard, but I will try :)

This is Interesting because you devote your time to playing variants & regular half minute & quarter minute time controls . Interesting from the Perspective of Improvement . Willpower I'm sure plays a large role in your decision to become Strong at Chess . Will you play in over the board Leagues Tournaments & Obtain Ratings & you study Chess

Can you explain your Rating Gain ? Can you Attribute any action in particular ? 995 is a high number in one year

ethanityz,
I have a few things I'd like to say in private but you have messages blocked so i can't send you a private message.
Perhaps if you send me one I'll be able to reply.

wow. 990 elo points!!!

@Korniliousim

I just messaged you :)

@ThunderClap

Honestly, the more I started playing chess, the better I got at it. I also enjoyed watching YouTube, especially Eric Rosen. Learning opening traps from YouTube also helped me get better. I had no idea about how fast I was improving, until I looked at other people's stats and realized that it sometimes took years for them to improve by 100 points (especially from 1900 to 2000).

But, probably the thing that helped me the most was puzzles. During the first months of lichess, I did lots of puzzles, and did around 100-200 each day. Those helped me in every time control. Obviously, learning tactics can help in slower time controls, but it also helped me in faster time controls. I remember a specific ultrabullet game where my opponent played Qf4, offering a trade of Queens, but I played Bh4+!, Removing the defender of the queen and winning it. I only took around 0.5 seconds to find the winning move. Puzzle storm was also very helpful. I used to do around 40 runs of puzzle storm each day, which helped with finding tactics quickly in short time controls.

Oh, and probably one thing that no one does is look at people's best rated wins. When I did that, I looked at how to take advantage of higher rated players that become too comfortable when playing a lower rated player. They often put up a sneaky attack like a Greek Gift or something like that. That helped me get my best rated bullet win, where I put my queen on the and his queen was on b3, but he didn't notice the queen was hanging, and he hung the queen, allowing me to take a free Queen.

Finally, I watched players play games. My favourite rapid and classical player is GM (@) akitalover. Akitalover is a very positional player, while I always get bored of positional play (haha, but I'm learning from it). Akitalover takes place in the rapid and classical shield tournaments, and when he does, I watch his games and learn about positional play.

Hopefully I can get as good as you, (@) thunderclap, and we can meet each other in an OTB tournament!