Is the rating system for 9X9 blitz broken?

It seems like no matter how many of the fastest clock 9x9 games I play or win, this rating never changes and the number of games played isn’t going up. I am consistently winning against 16 and 17k players so it shouldn’t be 23k

I am also wondering how to get the rating with the turtle to work. I have played some of the longest clock games but it remains greyed out. Is the turtle for correspondence games?

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you are losing most of 9x9 blitz games

I know my 9x9 is weak but look at the number of games. It does not correlate. For example it shows “0 losses vs. weaker opponents”, when, as you showed there, I have plenty of losses against weaker opponents. It doesn’t seem to be counting. Also note the rating of the players, compared to that 23K it gave me. I’m not even playing against anyone with that low of a rating so would that math even track?

Ok so would the clock symbol be a 5m + 5x30s game and the lightning bolt be a 2m +5x30s?
Or would the lightning bolt be the fastest clock at 30s + 5x10s?

graph doesn’t include games with 10s/move or slower
while game history shows lightning bolt symbol on 10s/move or faster games
game history counts game as game vs weaker while using ranks before game started
graph counts game as game vs weaker while using ranks after game ended

Ok thanks. Do you see what I mean though? Because it is counting those games as loss vs weaker in the image that you showed because it showed the dark red color. But it shows 0 losses vs weaker when you click the rating.

game history and graph have different logic

Ok, but do you understand what I am saying? It is not counting the games. No matter how many games I play it, the total stays the same at ‘Total of: 39 ranked games’
All of the other game formats are getting ranked but when I play 9x9 10s game it does not get counted.
Is there some way that the 9x9 blitz games are set to be not ranked somehow?

exactly just as I said:

if you wish both: graph and game history to count game as blitz, it needs to be 9s/move or faster

problem is not rank system itself, problem is inconsistency of user interface

ahhhhhh got it - so the top right option is not counted as blitz but the top left is. That solves the problem entirely. Thank you

So is there documentation on exactly which of these game options correlate to which of the ratings categories?

Not an official one as far I know because, as you already found out, it is very inconsistent.