Puzzles way too hard

Why do they give puzzles that are more than double your ELO rating?  It's got zero use for me since I can never solve them, my puzzle rating drops (unfairly so), and I get angry.

SMH

Your rating in puzzles has absolutely nothing in common with
your rating in games. The way to solve puzzles is to calculate every sinhle one of your checks, captures and threats. You should spent at least few minutes per puzzle. If you are guessing and spent less than minute per puzzle, you are just wasting your time. Not every single puzzle will be so hard. I was nerby 3000 and it gave mi mate in one. But in case you would fail in every puzzle after 10 minutes of thinking, you can pich custom puzzles and select rating range you want. But let me tell you once sgain: Meaning of solving puzzles is to practice calculation, guessing moves will never give you anything ever.

I don't even understand what "to calculate" moves or actions means ...

I objectively agree with every one of your statements, but for the OP's immediate problem of "I get angry" at problems that are "way too hard", I believe this advice would be counter-productive.

If she spends more time calculating each puzzle, her performance would rise, yes, as would the difficulty of the puzzles. Therefore, not exactly how to not get problems that are "way too hard". This would result in getting problems that are harder.

Isn't looking at the right move for more than 5 minutes spending enough time?

And as I said, I don't even know what "to calculate moves" means.

PS: I suffer from chronic lower-back pains plus nerve pains so even small annoyances could lead me to rage. I'm not a happy person (and that's an understatement).

Your puzzle rating and your game rating measure different skills.

puzzles are the key to getting better they tell me.

I get mad doing puzzles sometimes to, lol. I get +5 for a right answer, and -13 or so for a wrong answer. My rating is in the 2400's, and I definitely sometimes think the puzzles are rigged to be infuriating. Sometimes the hard ones with low pass rates are rated lower than easy ones with high pass rates, and then you have the problem that if you miss two in a row, you have to get 6 in a row right just to recover your rating. I guess the point is to teach you calculation, which is where you closely examine the position and actually figure out every move you need to make, in advance, to reach the desired outcome, which in a puzzle is usually checkmate or winning a large material advantage.

Calculation is just thinking more than one move ahead. I do not understand what you do not understand. If you got hernia on your intervertebral disc, it can be fixed by surgery. If it is not hernia, it can be more or less fixed by some exercise, mainly yoga. Yoga can also calm your mind and make you less sensitive for things coming outside you. Please, take this advice seriously, it is much more important than chess.

Good definition of calculation. Much better than mine.

#9 is right

the puzzle rating is not always that deep...

sometimes i lose 40 rating in a day when i dont feel good but they should suit your level, even if it has nothing at all to do with your game elo.

The problem is, on chess.com, your elo on game ratings are deflated and should be higher, which is why i can be 700 in rapid yet be able to solve puzzles rated at 2300.

Overall, your puzzles rating should not affect your gameplay and should eventually adjust to your skill level, as long as you keep doing more so it knows what you can and can't solve.

Thank you for addressing my back pain problems. Yet my problem is: I've been taking several meds for decades and in 2013 I found out these meds have made my body to need more anesthesia than usual. Long story short: if I were to have an operation, people could give me regular anesthesia and I could be in hell since I'd feel everything. That's why I'm petrified of having any sort of operation.

In 2013 they did a skin biopsy on my finger and I was in big (BIG) pain despite the normal anesthesia.

I will try acupuncture, no matter what the cost.

PS: today I took a triple med dose and I have no back pains now. Yet I still have the nerve pains, right now in my left leg. Alcohol helps. But I'm straying.

I'm having the same issue! It seems like when I use hints to solve the puzzle then chess.com thinks I solved it and starts giving me harder ones. When I use hints, I usually don't understand their solution until I click analysis and actually see what stuff does, then I can usually just barely grasp it, but I need way more practice on the easy ones. I can barely understand the position on the board in front of me, so I can't possibly understand one that comes 3 moves later, since it's the same thing except it taxes my memory way more than I can handle. I was improving a lot when I was doing easier puzzles, because it helped me actually understand what was in front of me, then when I tried to understand what would come a couple moves later, it was easier because it didn't take so much short term memory. I'm never going to improve unless I can practice at that easier level until the patterns are just ingrained. It seems like failing puzzles doesn't affect my rating, and I need to have a way lower rating so I can get the easy puzzles and practice so that my real rating and real understanding can improve. I really don't know why I'm getting such hard ones, I get huge stretches of like dozens of them wrong in a row. It seems like something is going on with their puzzle rating, or else I'm not understanding how they pick the puzzles...

I never use hints because you still lose rating even if you get it right...

Sometimes it seems like you lose more rating when you get it right with hints than when you miss it without hints, so I never use them.