How long did it take you to learn and start to win games

As the title says how long. Did you do lots of lessons? Did you play all the bots? 

Chess.com didn't exist when I was new.

What helped me in the beginning was playing a lot of games, and solving puzzles that showed me basic tactics (like back rank mate in 1, forks and pins, that kind of thing).

I started to play chess with my father when is was 9. I am 39 now. But in that time no internet, no computer. Later i played in school chess club for 2 years. The teacher was a chessplayer in a official club and there i really learned to play and become much better then my father and start to win against other kids at school. Then i changed school and never played again until a year ago i found this chess.com and i am again start as a beginner, a rating 1142 and i play every day for over a year now. So, it go slow, so slow but for me its only for relaxing after work, dont really care about my points

You'll start to win games, when you start facing opponents who are weaker at chess, than yourself. For me, I generally got better at chess after learning checkmate patterns, tactics and openings. 

The same year that I learned to play, I won the school championship.

Of course, the opposition was pretty weak.

Ditto, no internet back then. I mostly tried to be symmetrical and balanced. Poor choice but i didn’t any better back then. Come to think of it, i barely know any better now! Have fun with it. 

i finally settled in at like 400 rapid

had to start playing daily just to have a chance

immediately started getting wins after reading “bobby fisher teaches chess”

that book that is just back rank checkmates

started doing tactic puzzles and at some point early on (900 ish rapid) i started doing endgame work; king and pawn vs king; k and rook mate vs king; opposition; defending to draw an ending

these immediately started paying dividends; and still do to this day

i havent reallly learned by rote lucena position and other classic endgames but those simple fundamentals are still relevant and powerful

going over games was also a huge booster in getting wins; developing a routine after games and really helps

what also helped was getting a very simple development plan in opening moves

like 1. e4 2.Nf3 3.Bc4 for white
and wing it

and stuff for black

if white 1.e4 play ...e5 and wing it
if. 1.d4 play ...d5 and wing it

Don’t focus on winning games, focus on learning and correcting your mistakes. Winning will follow as you gain proficiency. Remember to that losing means lessons to learn from and don’t get caught up feeling bad for that. Have a great adventure with chess!

Don't ever forget that winning (even if not even close to 50% of the time) is a great motivation. Losing constantly is annoying and makes you less inclined to learn. If you lose a lot, for a long period of time, it's not unlikely you will quit chess. This place is full of beginners in danger of losing their interest in chess because of the way chess is played at this site (in which everything is about tricks, traps and brass, ultra aggressive play and never resigning).

If I have to recommend something to the OP is to learn and play offline if possible. And if not possible, to avoid this platform until you've learned a lot and can properly sustain a rating of 800. Much lower chance of being frustrated, much more learning done, much more fun.

Same for me, except I didn't play competitively in something like a school championship. When I learned chess in elementary school (from a classmate), I didn't even know grandmasters, tournaments or ratings existed; I didn't even know the rules of chess - just that it was another board game. My friend taught me the rules of chess in about 10-15 minutes and we played a game together; I won my first game

To be fair, the "competition" was pretty weak - my school was super small and we didn't have teams for even sports (certainly not for a board game like chess). I soon realized I was one of the best chess players in the school (arguably the number one player) and a group of maybe a dozen of us played chess often that year, but only casually for fun. As the "number one player", I didn't even know ratings existed, but looking back on the memories I have on it, I estimate I would have been about 700 at that point in time. 

Thanks everyone. I will continue to practice take the lessons and do puzzles.  I did buy the Bobby Fisher book and will have to read it.  Yes losing all the time is discouraging I play the beginner bots and can win against most of them. I am just starting to play real people. I do puzzles every night as well.

Cool

I will note that even though I technically won my first game, I didn't stay with chess because it was just a board game, so I played maybe once a year (if that often) after elementary school and I didn't play even a single chess game during high school. 

It wasn't until college when I thought I'd try to "pick up" chess again and see how good I actually was. That same day I created my chess.com account. My rating stabilized around 1150 and I have been learning ever since

My rating a few days ago was 1932, but then crashed a lot and I'm trying to recover some of it now but regardless, I'm often somewhat surprised at how much I've learned since then. It has been a little over 4 years since I created my chess.com account.

Start by trying not to lose.

started in 1949 and my dad beat me 100 games in a row. after that I started winning games.  

My father taught me to play when I was 9 years old. He bought me a book, Chess for Beginner's Guide A Picture Guide by Al Horowitz. I read it cover to cover. Next time I play my father, I beat him with a Scholar's Mate. He never wanted to play me again. Back then, we did not have chess computers or the internet. I read chess books and played a lot of games with my friends at school. It was the 1970s during the Bobby Fisher craze. I entered tournaments, lost a few, and won a few including the medal you see in my avatar. Back then, my rating hovered around 1100, and I have not improved since.

it's a different learning curve for everyone. if losing demoralizes you and discourages you from learning, then try to study and train certain parts of the game and not play yet until you reach a certain level of proficiency with a few important aspects of it. my friend and i teach kids and we generally don't have them play complete games until they reach 1700 to 1800 in lessons and drills. and even when they start playing, they play lower rated opponents. somewhere around 50 to 100 elo lower than their projected lesson rating. i'm not saying you're a kid, but you could perhaps gather something useful here to try on your own.

I started with the Magnus trainer app. It's not very good.

Remembered this game from the 00's called 'chessmaster'. Played that for a bit instead. Found that a fun way to learn the game starting out.

I took a 3 month or so break because of tilt, still did puzzles, came back in March and in a month went to 1100