I'm hoping someone can tell me how the puzzles are selected when you click to do a puzzle (not the daily puzzle, I'm talking about the puzzles button at the top of the home page).
I ask because I was on an 11-puzzle streak and then I failed one which said it was rated 755 (my own puzzle rating was like 660). And then the next puzzle I was given was rated 198 and the one after that a 398. So my question is, do you start back at the simplest level each time a streak is broken, rather than continuing to receive puzzles matched to your puzzle rank?
If so, that's disappointing, because the simpler puzzles are just straight out of the lesson books, and you can only do the limited number of free puzzles per day. Can anyone recommend another good place to get puzzles where they are ranked by complexity (and ideally if they come with explanations that'd be icing on the cake).
Puzzles can be +/- 400 of your current rating (sometimes more). There's no information released on whether the algorithm shifts ratings based on streaks, such a getting one right will tend to give a higher one next or if you get one wrong a lower rated one
I know puzzles, on average (based on my experience), tend to be lower rated than your current rating, with a small percentage higher and a small percentage a lot lower.
I'm hoping someone can tell me how the puzzles are selected when you click to do a puzzle (not the daily puzzle, I'm talking about the puzzles button at the top of the home page).
I ask because I was on an 11-puzzle streak and then I failed one which said it was rated 755 (my own puzzle rating was like 660). And then the next puzzle I was given was rated 198 and the one after that a 398. So my question is, do you start back at the simplest level each time a streak is broken, rather than continuing to receive puzzles matched to your puzzle rank?
If so, that's disappointing, because the simpler puzzles are just straight out of the lesson books, and you can only do the limited number of free puzzles per day. Can anyone recommend another good place to get puzzles where they are ranked by complexity (and ideally if they come with explanations that'd be icing on the cake).