Well it took me like 6 hours but i got to 40 in puzzle survival smh, pitiful lmao

I managed to get to 39 without any wrong and the proceed to lose any sense of logic saw the right move every time thought about it and missed a pin a couple moves in sigh man thats a really tender weakness, i have really good intuition but my calculating is like a 5 yearolds like literally there are 5 year old chess players with better thinking than mine

40 is very good, even if it took you six hours.

A good over the board tournament game can go six hours. It was probably very good practice.

Five year olds can't sit for six hours.

I once got to 56 and it took me 4. I'm a much better player now, but it's too time consuming

Congratulations, that's really good

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/puzzle-rush-survival-50-goal-reached 

This is a long read, but your experience is all too relatable for me. I just scored 52 in Survival, but even for me 39 and 40+ range is challenging. 

If you read this, take to heart the portion where I describe great-looking runs and then the momentum taken away and getting two or three strikes within a puzzle of each other.

This is no easy feeling and I know how tough this can be, but even 40 is very impressive as a Survival score. 

As @marqumax says though, it is very time consuming. I believe this continuous format in one sitting is partly what makes Survival so tough; the mental fatigue as well as calculation accuracy are put to the test in a way that resembles OTB play - something that online tends to rarely capture fully.

I probably find this more challenging than you do. Even at around puzzle #30, I find it really challenging (albeit the fact that I rushed almost every puzzle - I only slow down when I get like 30 to 35 correct without an error).

My average score is a very dismal 31.50 (but strangely enough, it was like 28.5 last month). Your score of 52 and the OP's score of 40 is certainly better than my score of 31.5.

If I recall, it gets to 1900 and perhaps even 2000.

I think they are talking about their  max scores. What is your highest score?

I only had one very lucky shot at a 55 (I was guessing through some of them in the hopes of not choosing the wrong line) and I only scored around 25 most of the time.

Soon after I mentioned getting an average score of 28.5, I managed to hit one very lucky 46 (but I erred in my choice of move between 3...exf2 and 3...e2, thereby costing me a potential 50 for my puzzle rush, even though I know the correct move is pretty obvious to most players).  I had wanted to give up around puzzle 34, but after getting that one correct, I continued really slowly. This is probably my first or second time that I managed to survive 15 puzzles rated more than 1600 after getting two puzzles wrong.

Apparently the 30th puzzle served to me (the second puzzle of the three which I failed, yes it's embarrassing for me to fail a 1144 rated puzzle) was rated 1605, and 40th puzzle served to me was rated 2105. I didn't think that the puzzle I failed (Problem 1134828) was rated 2600. This was roughly after 10 to 15 minutes from the time I started the first puzzle.

@KeSetoKaiba summarises his points very accurately. The mental barrier to overcome can indeed to beyond what a person might encounter in a game. This is because in an ordinary game, it is unlikely that a tactic would appear in a game, so most players would calmly play moves ahead whilst outlining good, candidate moves ahead. But in puzzles, where a winning line is available, we work really hard to look for the one set of winning sequences just for a single position.

Wow thanks for the compliments. Yeah i had an avg of 28, and i say 6 hours because i kept retrying because im like kaiba in the sense i get one wrong and my ability is impaired or rather my motivation is kind of slashed unless i got to within 5 puzzles of my highest. Any ways it took that long because i did multiple runs. I do think i still probably took quite a while. Yeah theres no way id get to 55 eric i was hoping i could get 45, lol 20 is my current avg after the horror show that elapsed after trying to get 45. But it was 28. lol

Yup

btw @Krazeechess is correct that 52 was my current highest. As for averages, I'm sure mine is deflated like many other members because of getting one wrong and instantly quitting or worse - getting a really low score because your basically playing bullet for the early mate in 1 puzzles and backranks  and mouseslip or just played something else (then quit).

When I'm somewhat serious with not quitting early, then I probably average 35-45 correct I'd say. Oddly enough, I've had a lot of Survival attempts end exactly on 39. I'm not entirely sure why that is, but perhaps a new pool of puzzles begins there or something (or maybe that is just the time my mental stamina begins to run out for puzzles in one sitting lol).

Yeah 50 would be awesome for me. I think the way puzzle rush will throw like a stalemate, repetition puzzle, positional puzzle or what have you can throw you off guard, and so maybe that might have to do with kind of disrupting the flow but im not complaining i think it trains flexibility, not sure if that was intended or not...Maybe why. Not sure about the 39 puzzle it could be because you put an importance on the 40 barrier.

i got 40 in only 30 minutes good job lolz

It's very slow please check