How hard is it to get from 300 to 500 in rapid chess rating?

I dropped to 100, then got back up to 300 pretty easily, but 300+players are tougher to beat.

How hard is it to work my way up to 500 for rapid chess?

It's not. At your stage in playing there are two main concepts you need to know. Tactics and Opening Principles. You can train your tactical knowledge by doing puzzles. A LOT of them. Opening principles are easy to find with a quick Google search. And they are absolutely neccessary. When I started I was middle 300 level when it all evened out. I'm approaching 1300 and those two things and my coach helped get me there. If you can't afford a coach, the other two things you can look into on your own. 

Chess is an extremely difficult game to get "good" at. It takes a long time and a lot of study. I will say straight up 300, 400, 500 etc are all pretty much the very beginning of being a beginner. What I mean by that is I'm approaching 1300 and I still feel like a beginner even though I'm approaching an intermediate rating. It's going to be years before I am where I want to be. But thankfully, chess is also fun and challenging and really forces one to dig deeper. And I enjoy a good challenge. 

Good luck, friend. 

Thanks for the advice, i will look into puzzles and opening principles!

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"How hard is it to work my way up to 500 for rapid chess?"
++ It is easy, it is a matter of mental discipline.
Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it.

one time when I  took a huge rapid plunge from 700 to 300. Or in lichess rating, that would be dropping from around 1175 to 650. I had it back to 500 in a week, though, so it shouldn't be too hard for you. I'm also in the middle of a plunge right now, and I'm down to 650-700.

If you view chess as a fun challenge that you enjoy you can reach far. Good luck to you as well as to OP!

That's my story, just replace John Bartolomew with Ben Finegold. I started at around your strength and I progressed at your pace and I did it by watching lessons on youtube and trying to implement opening principles, trying not to blunder pieces, trying to keep most of my pieces defended and by trying to get better at tactics.

i would say its not the hardest, but still a challenge altogether. honestly it just takes a lot of practice and puzzles as well as studying theory. im sure you can improve by taking your time to learn more.

300s is tough. i got to 350 earlier now back to 300. 

I keep making blunders and silly mistakes. I feel if i take too long to think my moves, i lose on time

this is a question that should never have been asked

Not hard at all. Just play a few games per week and solve some puzzles. This alone can get you to 1500-1600.

Something to keep in mind is that even if you become better overtime that change won't be reflected on your rating immediately. The only times I jumped in rating by a lot was after closing / creating new accounts due to how the elo system works.

then be selective mate, play 10 or 20 minute rapid games, just to build your logical thinking

Only a few games a week? I have been playing like 50 games a day and my rating is still 300s

Yep let me elaborate.

You could be playing a 100 games per day ,but your rating would not change if you didn't try to improve on your mistakes. The problem beginners have is that they make a blunder in one game and then make the exact same blunder in the next game.

Watch this video from Ben Finegold he explains it a lot better than me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbF1bRwxIWY&ab_channel=GMBenjaminFinegold

I play like 2-3 rapid games per day ,but I spend like 5-10 minutes analyzing them. Most of my games don't have one move blunders ,so I focus on bad trades ,bad endgame technique ,missed tactics and bad strategies. At 300 elo there's not many things you can analyze in your games ,so you should focus on the one move blunders. Those are the ones that cost you the game at that elo ,not a 3 move tactic that both you and your opponent missed.

Thanks for the post. Yeah that makes sense. I think i have a bad habit of playing too many games to try and get more wins, hoping for a quick increase in rank, rather than taking my time and being patient and learning properly.

I noticed i do make very horrible blunders at times, even accidentally giving up queen and rooks early on. 

I read that classical chess blunders happen less as people dont have a short time constraint, and think each move carefully. Maybe 10 minute games is too short for beginners who need more time to analyze the game and think

The hardest part is actually playing the games needed to get there. Watching a couple opening videos on youtube should be enough to get you there in about a month or so. 

Depends but i would say not very hard give a month of actual effort and you should easily surpass 500

Well ,its not about the quantity of chess games that you played,instead its about the quality of chess games that you played. Its better if you played 3 games a day with each game you analyse using engine and learning from mistakes,instead playing 30 games in a day without analyzing and knowing what you did wrong. But ya overall if you really want  to improve in chess,i recommend you to play longer games because only by doing that you will have time to calculate and really improve your overall chess level. Oh ya one more thing,try to control the amount of chess games you play everyday if you really want to increase your ratings,because as the number of games increases,you will get tired and make blunders.

Alright. I'm over 1200 elo, and I recently just finished my beginner stage in chess, and I won't give you too much advice since you're only 300, but what I know is that it's important to follow some basic chess principles such as developing your pieces, don't bring out the queen right away, castle your king to safety, and make sure to not let any pieces hang unless you're gambitting that piece on purpose or if you know you're setting a trap on your opponent. Once you are fully developed (or almost developed), you can start launching an attack at your opponent. If you develop fast, and follow all the chess principles and don't make any blunders, you should be good. It's also good to practice puzzles, or take a break if you need to. Don't overthink how your elo won't increase, because if you just follow the basic chess principles, you will be fine.