I kept it on the simple "one suit" type, and got so I was winning more than I was losing. Then I was trying to beat 1200. That's hard. Scoring in the 1180s to 1190s is easy, but breaking 1200 is difficult.
Once I got good at single-suit I switched to two suits. That was so much harder I went back to one. But that had gotten so easy I said to hell with it and went to free cell. Couple of times a year, maybe, I'll open spider and play it for a day or two.