huge difference between blitz and rapid rating

my rapid is 2130 and my blitz is 1623 even though my blitz win rate is more than my rapid win rate🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Rapid 1175

Blitz 840

Bullet 781

Daily 880

I am 1100 daily, but 600 blitz. It seems that blitz rating is half the rating of other formats. So a 3000 player would only be 1500 in blitz. That's really confusing when people say 1000-1500 is novice rating.

I was watching an episode of perpetual chess regarding Neimann in which they had a foremost chess statistician show the science behind rating drops/curves etc and basically demonstrating Neimann fits within the norm once you adjust for rating freezes during 2020. Anyway, one of the things he looked at was the rating drop when you remove time from a player. The average GM loses about 700 points during blitz and the longer they play blitz, so let's say, 6 hours off it, the higher this drop gets. So you should not be surprised with more time, you do better.

What does this mean? A GM loses 700 points during blitz? This isn't my observation, and in fact, Hikaru said playing blitz actually contributed to him getting better.

Hopefully this will help, but its the overall quality of play. Whether or not Hikaru says that, the Data is pretty clear. He runs through it all here (Started it at relevant part, theres a lot in here about deviant curves, center pawn loss etc) :

https://youtu.be/UsEIBzm5msU?t=478

If everyone plays worse, doesn't that mean that ratings should stay about the same, since ratings are a measure of how one player does against the rest of the player pool? Ratings should only be lower if the player pool is tougher overall, rather than just objective accuracy going down across the board, isn't that right?

I feel like my experience has been similar. I just recently got back into chess, and made it to 1350 rapid quite easily. However, I've struggled mightily in the few blitz games I've played, because I don't have the time to calculate. I feel like one reason for the discrepancy could be that blitz is more based around experience and intuition, while rapid allows for calculation. Newer/lower ELO players have higher rapid than blitz ratings because they lack this intuition. 

ok so here's the deal, rapid is actually the sweet spot of skill and I'll explain. Bullet is where you play when even if you're not skilled you can still survive long enough for your opponent to lose. Rapid is where you play to enhance your game because you have the time to properly think through your positions. And blitz is where both of those collide. It's where you're playing quite fast but not fast enough to force a time crunch against decent players.

It's where you can get through that pesky opening quickly, but still get stuck in a time jam towards the end. Which is why blitz is usually the most interesting and exciting. Now, the reason why your rating(and my rating, and generally everyone else's rating) is lower in blitz is because not only does it have a higher level of player skill, but it also has generally half the time, which means at least half the players at our skill level in rapid fall off due to time constraints. So only the better players remain.

My officemate advised me to just play Blitz to get better. Lost badly to him back in 2021 when I downloaded the app. Made a formal start to properly play chess a year later.

Started at 300 Blitz and took me a year to get to 1000, with instances of a few weeks to a month or two of not playing due to work.

Tried Rapid a few days ago and there really is a big difference. Even if it's 10 minutes, the extra 5 minutes on the clock made the match more relaxing like weights being removed, though I find it odd that 600 Rapid plays differently than 600 Blitz.

hi

There are 3 types of blitz on this site. 3 minute, 5 minute, and 3-2.

Did you see the 60 minute rapid setting?

OTB everything lasting more than one hour total time isn't rapid, since ever. Longest rapid time controls are 30'+0" and 25'+10" (although the latter can theoretically keep the game alive for more than one hour).

I've got to have one of the biggest distances between my rapid and blitz elo on this site (not that it's anything to be proud of)

I'm 1236 rapid and 514 blitz. I'm 400 on bullet. 30 minute games just feel perfect for me. The time on daily games makes me lose my concentration, I can't focus when there's hour long gaps inbetween moves, I forget where I'm up to and what tactics I had in mind. It's the opposite for blitz and bullet, I just can't think that fast.

Whats your personal Blitz/ game winning streak? I won 12 in a row, which feels nice, what's everyones streak?

Please tell me : )