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What is a good chess.com puzzle rating? Currently 3200.

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Dr_Richtoffen

Hey!
I recently hit 1900 on rapid, and I decided to take a month off and just do puzzles before starting the push to 2000.

What's weird is that I noticed a lot of titled players on here have similar (or lower even) puzzle ratings than 3200.

Am I just really good? (doubt it). Do serious players train puzzles on another website (I'm 2050 on chesstempo, which puts me in the top 250 global active), or do they just not do puzzles?
I guess I'm asking to know whether I should focus on pushing to 3300 and beyond in puzzles, or shift my focus to studying GM games and reading middlegame studies to get me to 2000+ rapid.

Thanks!

justbefair

3200 is certainly very good.

From looking at your recent puzzles, it seems that you really take your time in solving them-- spending an average of 5 minutes or more on many of the recent puzzles.

I feel like the puzzle themes in puzzle rush offer much easier puzzles but are more likely to have some practical use in actual games.

Dr_Richtoffen

Oh most definitely!

On chesstempo I'm spending about 25 minutes per puzzle.

Puzzle rush is okay if your focus is blitz/bullet I feel, but for classical playing the slow, high rated puzzles I think has a much better payoff in terms of calculations and pattern memorization.

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