Chess

I'm rated 1700 on chess.com. That took about nine months, and I got there by playing and by watching Ben Finegold on YouTube.

The main change was thinking about the move my opponent would make and planning each reply automatically. The quicker that got, tied to the many rules Ben Finegold teaches, the more my game levelled up: from 1100 to 1700 in the months I spent watching him.

1700 chess.com rating, nine months in. Play a bot at that strength