Am I a slow thinker?

I did puzzle storm for 5 minutes. I got all of the right, but they are only rated 939 tops, most being lower. I did 16 puzzles. Says average 18 seconds per puzzle?

Does that mean I have no hope at speed chess since they play 1 second per move or faster? Or does that just mean most of my time is spent taking in a new position?

My rating is 1400ish.

Seems to match my needing 10 minute games to not consistently lose on time.

That puzzle rush score is low. My 5 min PR is 28 after a lot of practice.

It could just have been a bad day: I got only 22 today, while yesterday I did an all-time best of 32!

Still around 20 seconds per puzzle. But I'm solving 100%.

As for those of you doing 30-50, what percent do you get correct?

Puzzle rush runs finish after 3 wrong answers (for 3 min, 5 min and survival).

It would probably help you to do a 5 min on a regular basis - maybe 1-3 times per week.

It's a muscle, and it will improve with training.

With regard to what this means, you should avoid bullet, but might be ok with slow blitz (5min or 3+2) with practice. 

A _lot_ of people can't do bullet, so don't worry about it too much.

Are most good bullet players also good rapid players?

How many of the 1100 rated players who I destroy in 10:00 do you think would destroy me in bullet?

In that game a few minutes ago, I planned to play Bb2 and fork knight and rook. I could have after Rxd2. But then being rushed, I played Rxc2, scaring off the c3 knight.

3 seconds per move. It was fun. I thought I was going to win, and then game over.

This is the correct approach. First you get good, THEN you get fast.

The bullet player who beat me is rated 660 at blitz. So definitely would not stand a chance against me under longer time controls.

Puzzle rush starts with very low rated (easy) puzzles.  If you are taking 18 seconds on most of them, it does not mean you are thinking slow, it just means you do not instantly recognize the patterns so you have to calculate.  As you practice the basic patterns, you will get much faster at the first 10-15 puzzles in a puzzle rush.

Can you take in the whole board at once?

I don't spend that time calculating. I spend it looking at 3x3 areas of board as I scan my eyes across it. Then I see the scholars mate and know that must be the answer.

In my opinion,  people who overthink things in general are at a natural disadvantage at speed chess. 

I honestly don't know how much of that tendency can be overcome by training when it is so dominant in every aspect of some peoples lives.

Pattern recognition and board vision can still be improved immensely, but a single shred of doubt turns into a significant time waste.

If you can solve all the puzzles with a bit more time, are you really at a disadvantage here? After all, classical chess counts for a lot more than blitz and bullet…

Puzzle rush scores might not directly correlate to chess ability, but I think there is still quite a bit of correlation there in terms of fast pattern recognition and processing speeds. I think those are way more applicable to blitz and bullet. So, yes. I would say that you are still at a disadvantage at faster time controls. I would also say that increasing your pattern recognition, however the method, is a good way to close in on that disadvantage.

The hard cap on how fast you can get at chess occurs before the hard cap on how good you can get at chess. That is my opinion at least.

I definitely don't blunder in daily chess. No inaccuracies or merely good moves either. I played 4 daily chess games, and the site computer analyzed them afterwards. All were excellent or better, but just usually not the best move. I just prepared for my opponent's best response each move, until my opponent started dropping material, which I gladly gobbled up.

I have friends who are way better than me at speed chess, pulling all kinds of black magic out of thin air. But if we ever play without a clock, on our honor, they don't seem to benefit from extra time nearly as much as I do. Then it is me taking their pieces.

I still think the pressure of bullet is fun, even if I lose. I don't mind rubbing elbows with 600 rated players.

I honestly would have a hard time believing this isn't just genetics and something you are more or less born with. 

You can fight genetics, but those fights are always tough.

Finally won my first bullet game. And 60 seconds is long bullet. I only won because my opponent was weak enough to fall for the scholar's mate.