I've now played chess every single day for 200 days.
In Blitz, I went from 310 to 514, which is a 204 point increase, or about 66%. Not bad, although Blitz is definitely still where I struggle the most.
Rapid is probably the one I'm happiest about. I went from 367 to 725, which is +358 points, almost a 98% increase. Basically, I nearly doubled my rating.
And then there's Bullet. I started at 331 and I'm now at 718, a +387 point jump, or roughly 117%. So technically, I've more than doubled my Bullet rating.
Looking at my overall stats, the biggest improvement has actually been in my endgames. My endgame scores have climbed a lot across the different formats, with my Bullet endgame score going from around 266 to 689, an increase of nearly 159%.
The funny part is that I personally feel that my endgame ability has improved the least. I feel like I've gotten better at the middle game, and that my opening play has improved a lot too.
I'll sometimes play an entire middle game at around 75 to 90% accuracy, get through the complicated part of the game feeling pretty good about myself, and then completely throw it away in the endgame. So while the statistics say that my endgame ability has improved the most, it definitely doesn't always feel that way when I'm actually playing.
I think part of the reason the numbers look so dramatic is just how bad I was at the beginning. If I was playing ten games at the start and making terrible decisions in basically all ten of them, there was a lot of room for improvement. Now, even when I mess up an endgame, I at least understand what I messed up.
And I think that's probably what these 200 days have actually changed for me. I'm not suddenly amazing at chess. I still make stupid moves, I still throw games, and I still have absolutely no idea what I'm doing sometimes.
But I'm making fewer stupid moves, throwing fewer games, and understanding a lot more of what I'm doing.