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Originally Posted by private joker
Just did my first 15x15 and it took me 24 minutes. My head hurts.
(I'd spent a few days doing the 10x10s and they were breezy, easy fun. My top time in that one was 2:21).
I'm hoping to crack 10 minutes one of these days for 15x15. I'm sure 5 is doable. But the first one had me really out of sorts... without using x's as markers I'd have been screwed.
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After having done them for awhile now, I just do the 25x25's. The smaller ones are just too "easy"...I think I've done one of the 25's in the 16 minute range. I usually leisurely do them in around 20 minutes. But, i don't really race hard to do them so I don't know what kinda time I could get on those.
I hadn't done a 15x15 in a long time and thought I'd do one on a lark and see what kinda time I would get:
And PJ, if they're taking 24 minutes you *might* be missing out on some of the basic tricks of doing these? For example in the above puzzle, I started with the bottom three lines (10, 10/2, 3/7) and filled in the parts of the 10's and the 7 that had to be black no matter what. Which gave me most of the bottom done right away and fanned out from there.