Should I stop playing Blitz to improve?

I'm rather new to chess and have been playing blitz a lot recently, however I feel like it isn't helping me improve as I am not good enough at quickly calculating or spotting moves yet in the short time frame blitz allows and I am frequently loosing games to either time or blundering without thinking hard enough.

Should I stop playing blitz and focus on studying combined with longer rapid games to improve my ability (and speed)?

i will play with you

Playing blitz is not ideal for improvement. Some people may improve that way, but for most that is far for optimal time control for improvement.

You should play 15|10 games or even longer if you like.

30 mins ok for you

i want to play you what time setting is good

i think so, longer games ultimately help you become a better blitz player but not so much the other way round.

You need to play longer form games if you want to get better. You need time to think. Blitz, for beginners, is qualitatively no better than standing in a field and flinging bags of feces at your opponent.

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

do what your heart desires

if you want to improve you should play longer time controls but a small amount of blitz to get warmed up is good as well

You can give it a try, but do so incrementally. But I slightly disagree with pfren on this even though he is experienced. You should still mix in a few blitz games within your rapid games as well, in a fair proportion you deem to be best

And most importantly, ensure that you actually have the time to spare for rapid in the first place, because there could be other activities (workplace projects, school homework etc) which require time.

Ironically enough I am actually one of "those few".

I only play long time controls (untimed games as well as 25|0 and 15|10) over the board, but not on this site.

Also, familiarise yourself with basic checkmates in the endgame and the most basic of tactics for middlegame usage. These are important to secure your winning games.

     If you have fun playing blitz once in a while, no harm done. But you will NOT improve your game by playing a lot of blitz. Get a couple of books aimed at beginners (Russ Bell has a vast library of suggestions, or try the classic Tarrasch's "The Game of Chess"--get the algebraic edition). And play longer games against the strongest competition you can find. You need to learn how to analyze positions and calculate the best moves. Taking the time to think about each move helps and stronger players will show you how to come up with a good plan and implement it.

Generally, it's recommended that beginners don't play blitz. This is because in blitz you rely on intuition, and beginners don't really have intuition - so it's recommended to play rapid chess instead as you have time to *think* and build up your experience and thus get a chance to improve your intuition, and you can play blitz later.

However, I've improved from 600 in 2019 to 2000 in 2021 by almost exclusively playing blitz.
I've of course studied offline and watched plenty of youtube content which you can put into practice in blitz! There's a mix of approaches but my approach is not the norm but has worked for me.

Thank you all very much for these answers .

I don't deny it, there are people who can exclusively play blitz and go over 2 000 in rating, but perhaps let's say roughly 10% can do it this way and reasonably improve. Most of the people play speed chess for years and after 4 years or so write on the forum with 800 rating asking why are they not improving. On top of that, you've said that you are playing over the board chess, so it is not only blitz, even if in general you mostly play blitz.


And who knows, if you put more effort in playing longer games online, along with analysis (analysis of blitz games is not really effective, as the games tend to be of less quality, and aren't showing your best chess), someone like you might even be a lot better than you are now.
I am not sure of course, as I am a lot weaker than yourself, and you seem to be doing fine with your improvement anyway.

Stop playing blitz.  Study and use slow games to test what ur learning.  U need plenty of time to think while ur improving, speed chess doesn't give u enough time.

I play so

I play solo chess that helps me improve. Even so I got creamed in blitz :P