I play a lot of bullet but I am working on Rapid now due to a bet I have trying to increase my rating...although it's not working and I am kind of losing the bet. 
It is a great way to improve, though.
Play Bullet, it doesn't matter how much you lose but it will improve your longer game.
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Sep 13, 2021
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Keep it up Nightly, you'll get there. Just don't lose sight of why your here.
Enjoy yourself but don't let it control you friend. : )))
Sep 13, 2021
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Yeah, I don't know if my opponents in the bet made any progress yet, but making a race to raise ratings is a great way to improve with an incentive
Sep 13, 2021
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Hilariously, me wasting a year on bullet has resulted in one small advantage in rapid. I know basic lines for almost every single opening. 10 out of 10 would not suggest for a player under 1000 Rapid to do though.
George1st wrote:
Try it even if it's only for a couple of days.
I only play bullet and blitz here. 
You will get better if you keep practicing!!
Sep 13, 2021
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George1st wrote:
Try it even if it's only for a couple of days.
n0pe.
It just makes ur time management worse, makes u go faster for no reason, and who said bullet lasted long?
I do not mean to be rude, but your rating happens to be below 800... also, 100% of masters would say otherwise.
It says on your profile you are rated like 2400 FIDE? Do you like never play on here?
One of my pieces of art I see you have brought out for all to see and maybe even, marvel and my precise playing structure. Cheers!
As bullet games are fast and u can’t think much ,but the more we play them our mind will get used to it and we can win in rapid more that’s what I did and now my rating is 1017
What is better?
1° people below 1000 who play the english
2° people below 1000 who play d3 e3 Ke2 Qd2
Sep 14, 2021
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pfren wrote:
Colin20G wrote:
What is better?
1° people below 1000 who play the english
2° people below 1000 who play d3 e3 Ke2 Qd2
The right answer is 3° people below 1000 who play 1.e4
Nothing but the truth.
bullet requires skills too but i am not good at it. i often lost on time in winning positions when i really put effort on tactics..but when i tried to win on time, i made blunders...the only great bullet games i did were the ones where my opponents made obvious mistakes which i quickly took benefits from them and crushed them at ease... but ughh.. that made me get very high accuracies...its scary considering chess.com is full of envious people... sick of them and their prejudice..
I don't get prejudice, I just get nothing. : (
"Play Bullet.....it will improve your longer game." - The worst possible advice in chess.
Play Longer Time Controls...
For many at the beginner-novice level, speed chess tends to be primarily an exercise in moving pieces around faster than your opponent while avoiding checkmate, in hopes that his/her clock runs out sooner than yours. And/or hoping to notice and exploit your opponent’s blunders while hoping they don't notice yours. The reason for this is that there is little time to think about what you should be doing.
It makes sense that taking more time to think about what you should be doing would promote improvement in your chess skills and results.
An effective way to improve your chess is therefore to play mostly longer time controls, including "daily" chess, so you have time to think about what you should be doing.
This is not to suggest that you should necessarily play exclusively slow or daily time controls, but they should be a significant percentage of your games, at least as much, if not more so than speed games which, while they may be fun, do almost nothing to promote an understanding of how to play the game well.
Here's what IM Jeremy Silman, well-known chess book author, has to say on the topic...
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive
And Dan Heisman, well-known chess teacher and chess book author…
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627052239/http:/www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman16.pdf
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/dan-heisman-resources
and the experience of a FIDE Master...
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-blitz-and-bullet-rotted-my-brain-don-t-let-it-rot-yours
for some good stuff on general chess improvement, with a view toward learning what you should be doing, browse my blog.....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
pfren wrote:
Bullet is a waste of time, unless of course you don't mind staying a patzer for an eternity.
Did you ever wonder what you're doing wrong about your rating being under 500 while you have been here for 11+ years?
Excactly !
pfren wrote:
Colin20G wrote:
What is better?
1° people below 1000 who play the english
2° people below 1000 who play d3 e3 Ke2 Qd2
The right answer is 3° people below 1000 who play 1.e4
Yes.
I didn't start playing Chess at all until I was in my mid 40's. So I think I'm limited on how high I can go ratings-wise. My first goal is to go over 1000. I have to put in more time learning that I have if I want to get anywhere near that. However, I have found playing 1.e4 every game is the easiest thing for me to do.
Obviously, I'm not a good player but most everything I've read from titled players it seems for new players this is the correct first move. Who am I to question a titled player?
RussBell wrote:
"Play Bullet.....it will improve your longer game." - The worst possible advice in chess.
Play Longer Time Controls...
For many at the beginner-novice level, speed chess tends to be primarily an exercise in moving pieces around faster than your opponent while avoiding checkmate, in hopes that his/her clock runs out sooner than yours. And/or hoping to notice and exploit your opponent’s blunders while hoping they don't notice yours. The reason for this is that there is little time to think about what you should be doing.
It makes sense that taking more time to think about what you should be doing would promote improvement in your chess skills and results.
An effective way to improve your chess is therefore to play mostly longer time controls, including "daily" chess, so you have time to think about what you should be doing.
This is not to suggest that you should necessarily play exclusively slow or daily time controls, but they should be a significant percentage of your games, at least as much, if not more so than speed games which, while they may be fun, do almost nothing to promote an understanding of how to play the game well.
Here's what IM Jeremy Silman, well-known chess book author, has to say on the topic...
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive
And Dan Heisman, well-known chess teacher and chess book author…
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627052239/http:/www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman16.pdf
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/dan-heisman-resources
and the experience of a FIDE Master...
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-blitz-and-bullet-rotted-my-brain-don-t-let-it-rot-yours
for some good stuff on general chess improvement, with a view toward learning what you should be doing, browse my blog.....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
This is exactly it for me and I'm conscious of it.
I just tend to try make moves as fast as possible to win on time because I'm not at a level yet where I can play a series of good moves at that pace. So, I don't play a lot of bullet. I play mostly daily games and rapid. Seems like in rapid games I can play with actual thought behind my moves.
Try it even if it's only for a couple of days.