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Posts: 25 ![]() Country : United Kingdom | Puzzle_Maestro posted @ 2020-01-12 11:39 PM
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Posts: 225 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2020-01-13 2:14 AM Welcome to sudoku solving! I'm afraid the harsh truth to improving your speed is practise and lots of it. Speed-solving is about recognising the easy deductions quickly for easy-medium puzzles. The best solvers should be able to finish SM's 6x6 in about a minute(!) each. Learning advanced techniques can help you solve harder puzzles but using it during speed-solving is another matter. With practise, fast solvers would quickly see harder techniques (and employ them quickly) which improves their solving time. You learn these skills by solving hard puzzles (without guessing) to add patterns to your repertoire. In a competition, there is a threshold of difficulty where guessing would be quicker than logical solving. Though, top solvers would only use guessing as a last resort, since they would've nailed the basics and make most of their deductions early on. Hope this helps! | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 24 ![]() Country : ITALY | GaS posted @ 2020-01-13 4:02 AM
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Posts: 23 ![]() Country : Japan | EctoPlasma posted @ 2020-01-13 8:51 AM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-01-13 9:29 AM
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Posts: 739 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | vopani posted @ 2020-01-13 3:05 PM
Enjoyable set of sudokus, well balanced and suitable for SM. Favourites: Arrow 9x9, Thermo 6x6, Arrow 6x6 Thanks Prasanna! | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 46 ![]() ![]() Country : India | aashay posted @ 2020-01-13 3:43 PM
A good set to start the 2020 SM season. I found the Diagonal Sudoku a bit too difficult, while the rest of the set a bit too easy. It was an enjoyable round. | ||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-01-14 12:19 AM
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Posts: 33 ![]() Country : Turkey | A Carton Mutant posted @ 2020-01-14 2:08 AM
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Posts: 17 Country : Poland | udoroh posted @ 2020-01-14 2:55 AM
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Posts: 59 ![]() ![]() Country : United States | bob posted @ 2020-01-14 4:00 AM
I am way too slow to ever be a competitive solver. That being said, I enjoyed the few puzzles I had time to solve and will try the rest later. | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 7 Country : India | fal_94 posted @ 2020-01-14 10:33 AM
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2020-01-14 10:50 AM 24 hours extensionConsidering the holiday on January 15th (Makar Sankranti, Pongal) and some requests, the test is extended by 24 hours and will now be open till 23:59 on 15th January. | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 2 Country : India | goelnidhi posted @ 2020-01-14 1:12 PM Can i take part in this competition now only?and how?plz help | ||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2020-01-14 3:55 PM goelnidhi - 2020-01-14 1:12 PM Can i take part in this competition now only?and how?plz help Yes. You can take part now. Details here: http://logicmastersindia.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?start=1&t... - You need to go to the contest page. - Download the Instructions Booklet and Sudoku Booklet. - Go through the Instructions Booklet and get familiar with sudoku types. - Once you are ready, click on "Start" button on the test page. - You will get the password on the screen. - Copy the password and use it to open the Sudoku booklet pdf. - Print the booklet, solve and enter the answer key(s). - Solve and submit as many as possible till the timer on the screen is running (It will run for 90 minutes). - Check the score on the Results link. - You can also solve online (There is a link on the top of the contest page). | ||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-01-14 4:21 PM
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Posts: 3 Country : Estonia | Krubi posted @ 2020-01-14 9:58 PM
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-01-15 1:49 AM
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Posts: 74 ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : United States | mstang posted @ 2020-01-15 4:11 AM
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Posts: 1 Country : United Kingdom | Magoo posted @ 2020-01-15 7:13 PM I thought this was a nice set of puzzles, and well graded relative to each other. I always like a set I can finish within the time limit! Would LMI be interested in our mentioning the Mahabharat and perhaps showing a video about one of the puzzles on the Cracking the Cryptic Youtube channel? Mark Goodliffe | ||||||||||||
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Posts: 50 ![]() ![]() Country : India | ABcDexter posted @ 2020-01-15 10:17 PM
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2020-01-15 10:18 PM Test end timeThe test can be started till 23:59 IST today. Answers can be submitted within 90 minutes as long as the test is started in time. The test cannot be started after 23:59 pm on 15th January. | ||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Country : India | Administrator posted @ 2020-01-16 11:34 AM Congratulations to Jakub Ondrousek, Jan Mrozowski and Seung Jae Kwak for taking the top three places. Thanks to the 467 participants from 39 countries. Anukul (India) was the first to start the test while Daniel Victor (India) was the last person to start the test. 99 participants completed the set within the allotted time. The median score of the test was 55. Top 3 for countries with 10+ participants: India(203): Rohan Rao, Kishore Kumar and Ashish Kumar Japan(27): Endo Ken, Kota Morinishi and Hideaki Jo USA(23): William Blatt, Jason Zuffranieri and Jenna Rivet Italy(21): Vittorio Schiavone, Matteo Testa and Laura Tarchetti Germany(19): Michael Ley, Robert Vollmert and Martin Merker France(19): Timothy Doyle, Yannick Meyapin and Philippe Meyer Poland(15): Jan Mrozowski, Jakub Majewski and Kristian Swiderski Czech Republic(11): Jakub Ondrousek, Jakub Hrazdira and Pavel Kadlecik Korea(11): Seungjae Kwak, Hwangrae Lee and Choi Yong Seok Slovakia(11): Natália Chanová, Marek Kasar and Veronika Kolvekova UK(11): Tom Collyer, Sam Cappleman-Lynes and Mark Goodlife Thanks Prasanna Seshadri for the sudokus! Participants may share feedback on the results page and rate the puzzles on the contest page. | ||||||||||||
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An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-01-16 12:13 PM
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Posts: 7 Country : India | malikasikka posted @ 2020-01-16 5:29 PM can someone help me with the password for standard (SM 18)? i want to practice |