Why do I have a game completion rate of 87% when I have completed all games?

I'm guessing that when I see the message that some opponent I have chosen "aborts" the game (I'm not sure how someone even does that), that they are noted for not completing their game. What is puzzling is, apparently Lichess counts this as ME not completing my game as well,, although I was perfectly willing to play whoever the opponent was. Why does Lichess note this as an incomplete game for the opponent of the player who aborted? Isn't a low incomplete game % a negative thing (I would think so), and if so, why are you making opponents of people who abort have a negative outcome from that person doing something they shouldn't?

You can find the games that you didn't complete here:

lichess.org/@/RahumWindsong/search?players.a=rahumwindsong&players.loser=rahumwindsong&status=35&sort.field=d&sort.order=desc

Losing on time is considered not completing? Ah, then it isn't a very interesting statistic. I thought it was just counting people who "abort"ed, when it WOULD be interesting, because likely you'd avoid people who do that a lot.

Strangely, the number has suddenly improved from a completion rate of 87% to 96%, even though I didn't play any additional games.

And I guess if one cares about this statistic, then you'd resign before running out of time. Although, if I was good enough at time management to accomplish that correctly, I probably wouldn't lose on time in the first place. Sigh. :)

Actually, I guess if someone is looking for opponents that have some disadvantage (besides whatever you can glean from a rating), if someone has a very low game completion % I guess they regularly are in time trouble and that may be a type some people want to seek out.

Anyway, thank you @StingerPuzzles for pointing out a way to look up games that are considered not completed.

p.s. Lichess, I love your chess puzzle captcha compared to "find the motor bus/truck/signal light/stop sign" captchas. Much more fun.

Maybe depends whether you took too much time on your last move or not. It's a bit awkward to lose on time with more than 15 seconds remaining; when you play 5+7, you shouldn't get flagged.

Well, @Cedur216, of the 11 games that search gives, 5 were <time>+0 (i.e., no increment). Losing on time of course means "you took too much time" on the last move. *cough* Only one had an increment of +7. But yes, my last tournament was 19 years ago, and I was challenged to play some chess, and so did a ton of rapid games in the last few days to try to get my "chess chops" closer to where they used to be. Sigh.

I'm aware of this issue because I saw my account with less than 100% complete, and I wanted to know why.

The search string was created by the LiChess UI when I made selections on the Advanced Search page.