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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2012-12-21 8:56 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Fairly Nice | |
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neerajmehrotra
Posts: 329
 
Country : India | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Very nice | |
Changed my vote Edited by neerajmehrotra 2012-12-26 7:35 PM
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tamz29
Posts: 226
Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2012-12-22 12:33 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Bit unfair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Very nice | |
Great puzzles. Scored some top 3 finishes (thus far ). I think the point system is a bit quirky. We'll see how it works out after the test is done. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2012-12-22 1:37 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Average | |
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Skip
Posts: 2
Country : Australia | Skip posted @ 2012-12-22 6:43 AM I loved the Screen Test format, but couldn't finish the more difficult Sudokus inside the 5 minute time limit. Could you please post a puzzle booklet in .pdf format so that I can finish the puzzles at my leisure?
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2012-12-22 7:29 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Very nice | |
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sanket.saxena
Posts: 48
Country : India | When we see the results, some player's rank is marked by orange and green, What does it mean ???? |
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debmohanty
Posts: 1868
 
Country : India | Skip - 2012-12-22 6:43 AM
I loved the Screen Test format, but couldn't finish the more difficult Sudokus inside the 5 minute time limit. Could you please post a puzzle booklet in .pdf format so that I can finish the puzzles at my leisure?
Thanks. Here is the PB - Link . It is same format as IB (couldn't have made it faster without copy paste ). Also, I have not double checked the solutions.
It is password protected, and password is here |
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mathcrazy
Posts: 35
Country : India | What is the password for the PB? |
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debmohanty
Posts: 1868
Country : India | mathcrazy - 2012-12-22 3:12 PM
What is the password for the PB? Check your inbox |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2012-12-22 8:41 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Very nice | |
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Nilz
Posts: 29
Country : United Kingdom | Nilz posted @ 2012-12-22 8:47 PM The solving interface said that my time taken for all sudokus had just past the 60 minute mark, but it didn't tell me that the time was up. Is this because the total time allowed was 65 minutes (because it included the 5 minutes to read the rules), or because even after the 60 mins was up, you can continue to view the puzzles you didn't get round to solving? At the time, I assumed the latter, so I just stopped solving and skipped to the end. But now I'm thinking that the first explanation might be correct, which means I wasted 3 minutes of potentially valuable solving time. Of course, if that's the case it's my own stupidity, but I think it could've been made a bit clearer.
Anyway, nice test, 30 puzzles in 60 minutes is a tough challenge! Having to solve online made an interesting change- it's harder because you can't make pencil marks, but it's easier because there's no messing about with answer keys. I'm not sure which I prefer. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2012-12-22 8:50 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Fairly Nice | |
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Administrator
Posts: 3567
Country : India | There is some bug in the forum code, with posts with "An LMI player". It copies the lmi tests results info from the previous poster. ( here & here ) |
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debmohanty
Posts: 1868
Country : India | Nilz - 2012-12-22 8:47 PM
The solving interface said that my time taken for all sudokus had just past the 60 minute mark, but it didn't tell me that the time was up. Is this because the total time allowed was 65 minutes (because it included the 5 minutes to read the rules), or because even after the 60 mins was up, you can continue to view the puzzles you didn't get round to solving? At the time, I assumed the latter, so I just stopped solving and skipped to the end. But now I'm thinking that the first explanation might be correct, which means I wasted 3 minutes of potentially valuable solving time. Of course, if that's the case it's my own stupidity, but I think it could've been made a bit clearer.
Hi Neil,
I am not sure how exactly the timer behaved for you. We described some of the technical details earlier here. We did not include the instructions reading time in the 60 minutes.
To me, it looks like the score page has a bug, and is not considering your entry which was auto-submitted at the 60 minute mark. The server seems to have received you entries properly.
(Last 3 are submitted after 60 minutes mark ) |
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caudmont
Posts: 18
Country : France | why did the score page limit my time at 50:00 min ? |
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Administrator
Posts: 3567
Country : India | caudmont - 2012-12-22 10:21 PM
why did the score page limit my time at 50:00 min ? Fixed and you move to 11. Refresh your browser. |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2012-12-23 12:47 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Fair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Average | |
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An LMI player
| An LMI player posted @ 2012-12-23 1:56 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | A bit skewed | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Fairly Nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Very nice | |
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Skip
Posts: 2
Country : Australia | Skip posted @ 2012-12-23 2:23 AM debmohanty - 2012-12-22 12:34 PM
Here is the PB - Link . It is same format as IB (couldn't have made it faster without copy paste ). Also, I have not double checked the solutions.
It is password protected, and password is here
Thanks Deb!
This will keep my mind active on lazy summer afternoons....  |
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Nilz
Posts: 29
Country : United Kingdom | Nilz posted @ 2012-12-23 3:35 AM debmohanty - 2012-12-22 5:34 PM
Nilz - 2012-12-22 8:47 PM
The solving interface said that my time taken for all sudokus had just past the 60 minute mark, but it didn't tell me that the time was up. Is this because the total time allowed was 65 minutes (because it included the 5 minutes to read the rules), or because even after the 60 mins was up, you can continue to view the puzzles you didn't get round to solving? At the time, I assumed the latter, so I just stopped solving and skipped to the end. But now I'm thinking that the first explanation might be correct, which means I wasted 3 minutes of potentially valuable solving time. Of course, if that's the case it's my own stupidity, but I think it could've been made a bit clearer.
Hi Neil,
I am not sure how exactly the timer behaved for you. We described some of the technical details earlier here. We did not include the instructions reading time in the 60 minutes.
To me, it looks like the score page has a bug, and is not considering your entry which was auto-submitted at the 60 minute mark. The server seems to have received you entries properly.
Thanks Deb, I think that explains it. Due to the bug, the clock kept ticking, so I didn't realise that my entry had been auto-submitted (although I'd assumed it would be ). It all looks correct, in that it hasn't given me credit for anything I did after that. |
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Gotroch
Posts: 83
Country : Czech Republic | Gotroch posted @ 2012-12-23 4:27 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Bit unfair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Very nice | |
Thank you Deb, it was very nice test. I usually use pencilmarks very often, but this test disables it, so it was very different solving experience for me. Lot of solving in mind and memory was used. For the scoring - in my opinion penalty system could have been better. In normal tests one wrong digit = zero points. In this test, submission with lots of wrong cells was still awarded with fair amount of points. Next time, especialy for such small grids, there can be some limit of maximum wrong cells (6-8 ) for each puzzle to any points being awarded. Edited by Gotroch 2012-12-23 4:30 AM
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zorko
Posts: 11
Country : Bulgaria | zorko posted @ 2012-12-23 7:58 AM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | Just right | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Very nice | |
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davep
Posts: 43
Country : United States | davep posted @ 2012-12-23 7:52 PM | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | How did you feel about the length / time limit for this test? | A bit too many puzzles | | | What is your opinion about rules, points and scoring for this test? | Very fair | | | What is your opinion about the solving interface? | Very nice | |
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kishy72
Posts: 422
Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 2012-12-23 9:33 PM Clearly the worst of all the LMI tests i have taken so far.... |
@ 2012-12-21 8:56 PM (#9176 - in reply to #9112) (#9176) Top