Blitz - 3 to 8 minutes?

The Filter games screen says that, which is strange, considering that according to FIDE's rules Blitz is 10 minutes or less.

See Appendix B here: www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=171&view=article

Well, according to FIDE there is not such thing as 'bullet time control'...

well fide only hosts tournaments with a physical board, and one minute chess is too chaotic to be properly officiated, peices falling over, not landing on exact square or whatever. all of FIDE's rules apply to their tournaments, and all involve a physical board between two players in person.

I'm talking about Blitz, not Bullet.
Needless to say, 10 minutes game here, as in the FIDE rules, are considered classical and not Blitz.

I'm just pointing out a discrepancy in the text that "should" be fixed.

This is not a FIDE website. While at times using FIDE's rules have been a guiding force in how to handle a situation (insufficient mating material for instance flagging as draw for instance) the FIDE rules govern FIDE sanctioned games, not lichess games. If you'll notice, lichess does not even use FIDE's Elo system, but instead uses Glicko2. Lichess has absolutely no affiliation with FIDE and in theory, if lichess wanted to classify any game over 2 minutes long as "classical" time control it could. Lichess can effectively classify clock times however it wants.

The classifications are mostly to separate games and ratings out between those who play bullet games, those who don't but still play fast time controls, and those who play longer clocks. You also have to take into account that a 10 minute otb game where you actually have to physically move pieces and tap the clock is a lot faster than a 10 minute game where you can move instantaneously and the clock automatically toggles. The same elements of online chess that allow bullet play to exist also influence what would be considered a blitz game.

Fenris, you're absolutely right and wrong at the same time.
I've simply wrote that there's a discrepancy.
Lichess considers 10 minute games as Standard time controls, however the text in the filter setting states 3-8 is Blitz and 8-360 is Standard.

"Lichess considers 10 minute games as Standard time controls, however the text in the filter setting states 3-8 is Blitz and 8-360 is Standard."

So, where's the discrepancy then? I'm not trolling, but I simply don't see, especially after perusing this very sentence a couple of times, where your problem lies.

#7: 8 minutes is considered classical/standard on lichess. It needs to be over 10 minutes to be considered classical for FIDE.

Either way, it is just as #5 said, we don't follow FIDE's regulations. lichess chose what it believes is best for the realities of online chess. I don't think it will be changed.

#8 actually, according to the FIDE rules, 10 - 60 minutes (with an increment if it doesn't exceed a minute) is rapidplay. So really the discrepancy is that a 'classical' game takes 8 minutes or more, rather than an hour or more. You can probably guess why lichess doesn't use that definition.

You fail to see my point.
Try to create a game with 10 minutes time controls, no increment - this game is Classical, not Blitz.

That filter text is wrong.