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In most cases, cancelling a credit card won't help your credit reputation. 

When you have trouble paying your credit bills on time and hope to keep credit expenditures under control, cancelling your credit card is advisable in controlling your behaviour, more so than to improve your credit reputation. Please do note that it is advisable to close your credit lines or cancel yourcredit cards only after you have fully repaid all outstanding balances. Closing credit lines before they are fully repaid would definitely hurt your credit reputation instead of helping.

If you have too many cards and are thinking of cancelling unused ones, it is a good idea to keep the cards that you have been using for the longest period and cancel the newly applied ones. One element credit bureaus do look at is the length of your credit record. This would allow you to maintain a longer track record of prompt payments which would definitely help your credit reputation.