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[lunchboy]

Just posting because I'm stoked about logging my fastest crossword solving time yet: two minutes even on a Monday Times puzzle. (The July 30th puzzle -- yes, I'm running a bit behind.) My handwriting isn't even all that much crappier than usual.

Comments

[cazique]

2:00 on paper? wouldn't that be a record by about 12 seconds? holy shite.

[lunchboy]

On paper, yes. Still not as fast as Stan, though.

[cazique]

Wasn't Stan's record 2:14 or 2:16, and rpipuzzleguy got an "unofficial" 2:12 or something a few months ago?

[lunchboy]

Hmm, I don't know. Peter said he remembered Stan finishing in 1:50something, but he could be misremembering. Maybe he's thinking of an unofficial time from Stan.

[rpipuzzleguy]

Christ on a cracker.

[luckylefty]

How long would it take you if you worked from a filled-in answer grid, rather than from clues? I think it would take me over 3 minutes.

[lunchboy]

I don't know, but it would certainly take less time than actually solving. I can write pretty fast.

[qaqaq]

Quit it. Your showing at Stamford last year was supposed to be a fluke, so that I'd have a better chance of making the finals in the future.

[lunchboy]

If I ever reach the finals as many times as you have, then you can start complaining.

[nonelvis]

How the hell can you do that without getting writer's cramp? Just thinking about being able to solve a puzzle on paper that quickly is making my hands hurt.

(The rest of me, of course, is merely jealous and in awe of your mad puzzle-solving skillz.)

[lunchboy]

Isn't writer's cramp more of a "length of time spent writing" problem and not so much to do with "speed of writing"?

[nonelvis]

For me it's both, but then again, I am broken that way.