Lichess Puzzle Timer, by Eltecson

Tracking since Apr 17, 2026.

Changelog

• Apr 23, 2026
  description

  🚀 Lichess Puzzle Timer – Time-Constrained Training for Lichess Puzzles
  
  (also available in Firefox and Firefox for Android)
  
  Lichess Puzzle Timer is a lightweight Chrome extension designed to help chess players train faster, smarter, and more consistently on Lichess puzzles.
  
  Built directly into the Lichess puzzle page, this extension adds a real-time puzzle timer, automated puzzle flow, and performance analytics—no external tools, no accounts, no clutter.
  
  Perfect for players focused on speed chess, tactics training, blitz improvement, and puzzle-solving rhythm.
  
  ⏱️ Key Features
  - Real-Time Puzzle Timer
    Track how long you take on every puzzle with a clean, floating timer popup that you can drag and resize.
  
  - 2 Modes for Timer:
    - Per-Puzzle Mode: Resets the timer after each puzzle.
    - Cumulative Mode: a set amount of time. With the additional feature of automatically stopping when a puzzle is solved, and automatically resuming when a new puzzle is loaded.
  
  - Any motif, any difficulty, adjustable time
    Will work in any motif, any difficulty (Lichess has built-in selection for difficulty), adjustable time. Basically as long as it has a puzzle board, it will work.
  
  - Automatic Puzzle Detection & Skipping
    Instantly detects puzzle completion and out-of-time scenario and smoothly advances to the next puzzle.
  
  - Settings Page
    Easily customize everything through the chrome extension's settings page (accessible through clicking the Timer Popup's Settings Button, Menu Popup's wide logo, and the extension's default_popup's wide logo).
  
  - Timer Presets for different Time Controls:
    - Very Fast – 10s time control / 3s cooldown (Ideal for Bullet)
    - Fast – 20s / 3s (Ideal for Blitz)
    - Normal – 60s / 3s (Ideal for Blitz and Rapid)
    - Slow – 2m / 5s (ideal for Rapid)
    - Very Slow – 5m / 15s (Ideal for Rapid and Classical)
  
  - Analytics Popup
    Check your total puzzles, accuracy, total solved and unsolved puzzles in real-time.
  
  - Customizable Visuals & Sounds
    - Toggle timer visuals
    - Adjustable volume
    - Optional sound effects
    - Light Mode preset available
  
  - Smart, Safe Integration
    - Uses safe DOM interaction
    - Only runs on Lichess puzzle pages
    - No tracking, no accounts, no unnecessary permissions
  
  🧠 Designed for Serious Training
  Lichess Puzzle Timer helps you:
  - Improve tactical speed
  - Improve time discipline
  - Build puzzle-solving discipline
  - Develop a consistent training rhythm
  - Practice under realistic time pressure
  Ideal for blitz players, bullet grinders, and tactical trainers who want a focused puzzle workflow.
  
  🆕 Latest Updates
  v3.2.9
  - Reset isFailedPuzzle ref on timer cancel
  - Turn off all intervals and animation loops on timer cancel
  - Make review link lead to firefox addon when using firefox browser
  
  v3.2.8
  - Fix timer's "Failed" count incrementing even while it's off
  
  v3.2.7
  - Minor adjustment on previous update (increase timeout for other tasks to finish)
  
  🔒 Privacy-Friendly & Lightweight
  - No ads
  - No tracking
  - No external accounts
  - Minimal permissions
  
  📦 Open Source
  Source code available on GitHub:
  👉 https://github.com/el-tecson/lichess-puzzle-timer/

  🚀 Lichess Puzzle Timer – Time-Constrained Training for Lichess Puzzles
  
  (also available in Firefox and Firefox for Android)
  
  Lichess Puzzle Timer is a lightweight Chrome extension designed to help chess players train faster, smarter, and more consistently on Lichess puzzles.
  
  Built directly into the Lichess puzzle page, this extension adds a real-time puzzle timer, automated puzzle flow, and performance analytics—no external tools, no accounts, no clutter.
  
  Perfect for players focused on speed chess, tactics training, blitz improvement, and puzzle-solving rhythm.
  
  ⏱️ Key Features
  - Real-Time Puzzle Timer
    Track how long you take on every puzzle with a clean, floating timer popup that you can drag and resize.
  
  - 2 Modes for Timer:
    - Per-Puzzle Mode: Resets the timer after each puzzle.
    - Cumulative Mode: a set amount of time. With the additional feature of automatically stopping when a puzzle is solved, and automatically resuming when a new puzzle is loaded.
  
  - Any motif, any difficulty, adjustable time
    Will work in any motif, any difficulty (Lichess has built-in selection for difficulty), adjustable time. Basically as long as it has a puzzle board, it will work.
  
  - Automatic Puzzle Detection & Skipping
    Instantly detects puzzle completion and out-of-time scenario and smoothly advances to the next puzzle.
  
  - Settings Page
    Easily customize everything through the chrome extension's settings page (accessible through clicking the Timer Popup's Settings Button, Menu Popup's wide logo, and the extension's default_popup's wide logo).
  
  - Timer Presets for different Time Controls:
    - Very Fast – 10s time control / 3s cooldown (Ideal for Bullet)
    - Fast – 20s / 3s (Ideal for Blitz)
    - Normal – 60s / 3s (Ideal for Blitz and Rapid)
    - Slow – 2m / 5s (ideal for Rapid)
    - Very Slow – 5m / 15s (Ideal for Rapid and Classical)
  
  - Analytics Popup
    Check your total puzzles, accuracy, total solved and unsolved puzzles in real-time.
  
  - Customizable Visuals & Sounds
    - Toggle timer visuals
    - Adjustable volume
    - Optional sound effects
    - Light Mode preset available
  
  - Smart, Safe Integration
    - Uses safe DOM interaction
    - Only runs on Lichess puzzle pages
    - No tracking, no accounts, no unnecessary permissions
  
  🧠 Designed for Serious Training
  Lichess Puzzle Timer helps you:
  - Improve tactical speed
  - Improve time discipline
  - Build puzzle-solving discipline
  - Develop a consistent training rhythm
  - Practice under realistic time pressure
  Ideal for blitz players, bullet grinders, and tactical trainers who want a focused puzzle workflow.
  
  🆕 Latest Updates
  v3.2.10
  - Change all instances of "el-tecson" to "eltecson" and "El-Tecson" to "Eltecson"
  
  v3.2.9
  - Reset isFailedPuzzle ref on timer cancel
  - Turn off all intervals and animation loops on timer cancel
  - Make review link lead to firefox addon when using firefox browser
  
  v3.2.8
  - Fix timer's "Failed" count incrementing even while it's off
  
  🔒 Privacy-Friendly & Lightweight
  - No ads
  - No tracking
  - No external accounts
  - Minimal permissions
  
  📦 Open Source
  Source code available on GitHub:
  👉 https://github.com/eltecson/lichess-puzzle-timer/

• Apr 23, 2026
  name

  Lichess Puzzle Timer, by El-Tecson

  Lichess Puzzle Timer, by Eltecson

• Apr 23, 2026
  category

  productivity/workflow

  make_chrome_yours/functionality

• Apr 17, 2026
  description

  🚀 Lichess Puzzle Timer – Time-Constrained Training for Lichess Puzzles
  
  (also available in Firefox and Firefox for Android)
  
  Lichess Puzzle Timer is a lightweight Chrome extension designed to help chess players train faster, smarter, and more consistently on Lichess puzzles.
  
  Built directly into the Lichess puzzle page, this extension adds a real-time puzzle timer, automated puzzle flow, and performance analytics—no external tools, no accounts, no clutter.
  
  Perfect for players focused on speed chess, tactics training, blitz improvement, and puzzle-solving rhythm.
  
  ⏱️ Key Features
  - Real-Time Puzzle Timer
    Track how long you take on every puzzle with a clean, floating timer popup that you can drag and resize.
  
  - 2 Modes for Timer:
    - Per-Puzzle Mode: Resets the timer after each puzzle.
    - Cumulative Mode: a set amount of time. With the additional feature of automatically stopping when a puzzle is solved, and automatically resuming when a new puzzle is loaded.
  
  - Any motif, any difficulty, adjustable time
    Will work in any motif, any difficulty (Lichess has built-in selection for difficulty), adjustable time. Basically as long as it has a puzzle board, it will work.
  
  - Automatic Puzzle Detection & Skipping
    Instantly detects puzzle completion and out-of-time scenario and smoothly advances to the next puzzle.
  
  - Settings Page
    Easily customize everything through the chrome extension's settings page (accessible through clicking the Timer Popup's Settings Button, Menu Popup's wide logo, and the extension's default_popup's wide logo).
  
  - Timer Presets for different Time Controls:
    - Very Fast – 10s time control / 3s cooldown (Ideal for Bullet)
    - Fast – 20s / 3s (Ideal for Blitz)
    - Normal – 60s / 3s (Ideal for Blitz and Rapid)
    - Slow – 2m / 5s (ideal for Rapid)
    - Very Slow – 5m / 15s (Ideal for Rapid and Classical)
  
  - Analytics Popup
    Check your total puzzles, accuracy, total solved and unsolved puzzles in real-time.
  
  - Customizable Visuals & Sounds
    - Toggle timer visuals
    - Adjustable volume
    - Optional sound effects
    - Light Mode preset available
  
  - Smart, Safe Integration
    - Uses safe DOM interaction
    - Only runs on Lichess puzzle pages
    - No tracking, no accounts, no unnecessary permissions
  
  🧠 Designed for Serious Training
  Lichess Puzzle Timer helps you:
  - Improve tactical speed
  - Improve time discipline
  - Build puzzle-solving discipline
  - Develop a consistent training rhythm
  - Practice under realistic time pressure
  Ideal for blitz players, bullet grinders, and tactical trainers who want a focused puzzle workflow.
  
  🆕 Latest Updates
  v3.2.5
  - Fix inaccurate timing.
  - Fix sound issue where all buttons except the play button doesn't sound when it is the first to be clicked.
  
  v3.2.4
  - Make timer stop when puzzle is solved, when "Jump to next puzzle immediately" is turned on.
  
  v3.2.3
  - Fix timer not skipping puzzle when countdown is set to zero 
  - Fix incorrect solved state
  - Make timer work properly with Lichess feature "Jump to next puzzle immediately" turned on
  
  🔒 Privacy-Friendly & Lightweight
  - No ads
  - No tracking
  - No external accounts
  - Minimal permissions
  
  📦 Open Source
  Source code available on GitHub:
  👉 https://github.com/el-tecson/lichess-puzzle-timer/

  🚀 Lichess Puzzle Timer – Time-Constrained Training for Lichess Puzzles
  
  (also available in Firefox and Firefox for Android)
  
  Lichess Puzzle Timer is a lightweight Chrome extension designed to help chess players train faster, smarter, and more consistently on Lichess puzzles.
  
  Built directly into the Lichess puzzle page, this extension adds a real-time puzzle timer, automated puzzle flow, and performance analytics—no external tools, no accounts, no clutter.
  
  Perfect for players focused on speed chess, tactics training, blitz improvement, and puzzle-solving rhythm.
  
  ⏱️ Key Features
  - Real-Time Puzzle Timer
    Track how long you take on every puzzle with a clean, floating timer popup that you can drag and resize.
  
  - 2 Modes for Timer:
    - Per-Puzzle Mode: Resets the timer after each puzzle.
    - Cumulative Mode: a set amount of time. With the additional feature of automatically stopping when a puzzle is solved, and automatically resuming when a new puzzle is loaded.
  
  - Any motif, any difficulty, adjustable time
    Will work in any motif, any difficulty (Lichess has built-in selection for difficulty), adjustable time. Basically as long as it has a puzzle board, it will work.
  
  - Automatic Puzzle Detection & Skipping
    Instantly detects puzzle completion and out-of-time scenario and smoothly advances to the next puzzle.
  
  - Settings Page
    Easily customize everything through the chrome extension's settings page (accessible through clicking the Timer Popup's Settings Button, Menu Popup's wide logo, and the extension's default_popup's wide logo).
  
  - Timer Presets for different Time Controls:
    - Very Fast – 10s time control / 3s cooldown (Ideal for Bullet)
    - Fast – 20s / 3s (Ideal for Blitz)
    - Normal – 60s / 3s (Ideal for Blitz and Rapid)
    - Slow – 2m / 5s (ideal for Rapid)
    - Very Slow – 5m / 15s (Ideal for Rapid and Classical)
  
  - Analytics Popup
    Check your total puzzles, accuracy, total solved and unsolved puzzles in real-time.
  
  - Customizable Visuals & Sounds
    - Toggle timer visuals
    - Adjustable volume
    - Optional sound effects
    - Light Mode preset available
  
  - Smart, Safe Integration
    - Uses safe DOM interaction
    - Only runs on Lichess puzzle pages
    - No tracking, no accounts, no unnecessary permissions
  
  🧠 Designed for Serious Training
  Lichess Puzzle Timer helps you:
  - Improve tactical speed
  - Improve time discipline
  - Build puzzle-solving discipline
  - Develop a consistent training rhythm
  - Practice under realistic time pressure
  Ideal for blitz players, bullet grinders, and tactical trainers who want a focused puzzle workflow.
  
  🆕 Latest Updates
  v3.2.9
  - Reset isFailedPuzzle ref on timer cancel
  - Turn off all intervals and animation loops on timer cancel
  - Make review link lead to firefox addon when using firefox browser
  
  v3.2.8
  - Fix timer's "Failed" count incrementing even while it's off
  
  v3.2.7
  - Minor adjustment on previous update (increase timeout for other tasks to finish)
  
  🔒 Privacy-Friendly & Lightweight
  - No ads
  - No tracking
  - No external accounts
  - Minimal permissions
  
  📦 Open Source
  Source code available on GitHub:
  👉 https://github.com/el-tecson/lichess-puzzle-timer/

Permissions & access

Permissions

storage

Host access

https://lichess.org/*

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