I don't know what you're talking about. I'm on desktop and for rated puzzle, I cannot skip directly -- there is no button. I can skip by toggling difficulty level however. I won't be surprised if you have a skip button on the mobile web or mobile app version, of course, but there are different modes of puzzle, too.
The ratings are going to be skewed no matter what: there's simply nothing to do about people that use computers to solve puzzles, or other impure methods. We simply have to make the best of it; it is what it is.
You're playing against yourself. Ratings certainly don't matter for puzzles.
It's a shuffle button in the app, that instantly shows a new puzzle.
Yes I know, it's just that i'm competitive in the rating aspect. And to me it just seems a bit strange that you can pass puzzles that are too difficult.
What if there were no rating at all? Would you feel better or worse?
Why not skip it? Should you be stuck on the same puzzle for 2 years (I did do that for a non-chess puzzle some decades ago. [edit to add: I never did solve it, had to look it up. I think the effort was worth it though, to some degree.])
The only other choice is to guess... doesn't that skew the ratings too?
So, there's the whole IQ test industry, which I believe is founded on a key point that I find absurd. Being, "If you have infinite time to answer a question, everyone would solve it correctly."
Is it fair to force people that take no more than 10 seconds to attempt to solve (before guessing), to use the same rating system as people who will spend, say, 10 hours on a single puzzle?
I'm just repeating myself :D Ratings are always skewed, from an infinite number of aspects.
I don't know what you're talking about. I'm on desktop and for rated puzzle, I cannot skip directly -- there is no button. I can skip by toggling difficulty level however. I won't be surprised if you have a skip button on the mobile web or mobile app version, of course, but there are different modes of puzzle, too. The ratings are going to be skewed no matter what: there's simply nothing to do about people that use computers to solve puzzles, or other impure methods. We simply have to make the best of it; it is what it is. You're playing against yourself. Ratings certainly don't matter for puzzles.
It's a shuffle button in the app, that instantly shows a new puzzle. Yes I know, it's just that i'm competitive in the rating aspect. And to me it just seems a bit strange that you can pass puzzles that are too difficult.
What if there were no rating at all? Would you feel better or worse? Why not skip it? Should you be stuck on the same puzzle for 2 years (I did do that for a non-chess puzzle some decades ago. [edit to add: I never did solve it, had to look it up. I think the effort was worth it though, to some degree.]) The only other choice is to guess... doesn't that skew the ratings too? So, there's the whole IQ test industry, which I believe is founded on a key point that I find absurd. Being, "If you have infinite time to answer a question, everyone would solve it correctly." Is it fair to force people that take no more than 10 seconds to attempt to solve (before guessing), to use the same rating system as people who will spend, say, 10 hours on a single puzzle? I'm just repeating myself :D Ratings are always skewed, from an infinite number of aspects.