Well done. Both in the "nice job" sense, and the "I'm very crisply cooked" sense.
I would have been (at best) in the low to mid 3s if I were in Across Lite and not fighting the NY Times app's quirkiness, but 2:30? Only if I pre-read the answers, had a head start, etc. you know the standard lines. Great stuff :).
I'm also sad that another puzzle has replaced mine as your fastest Friday, Joon! Although, considering how much faster a solver you are now than then, maybe my puzzle was still easier.
could be. also, i tied that time once and came very close twice in the two years since your friday puzzle, not to mention i spent a good chunk of last year doing paper-only. but today's was pretty easy, i have to say. all the 15s were pretty much instafills. it felt almost as easy as a CS sunday, and indeed i beat my CS sunday average (though i was almost a minute off my CS sunday record).
2:30? oh man. i beat my old friday record by almost a minute, but that's too good.
ReplyDeleteWell done. Both in the "nice job" sense, and the "I'm very crisply cooked" sense.
ReplyDeleteI would have been (at best) in the low to mid 3s if I were in Across Lite and not fighting the NY Times app's quirkiness, but 2:30? Only if I pre-read the answers, had a head start, etc. you know the standard lines. Great stuff :).
Working on a fix for Newsday ...
ReplyDeleteI'm also sad that another puzzle has replaced mine as your fastest Friday, Joon! Although, considering how much faster a solver you are now than then, maybe my puzzle was still easier.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Newsday puz, Alex!
ReplyDeletecould be. also, i tied that time once and came very close twice in the two years since your friday puzzle, not to mention i spent a good chunk of last year doing paper-only. but today's was pretty easy, i have to say. all the 15s were pretty much instafills. it felt almost as easy as a CS sunday, and indeed i beat my CS sunday average (though i was almost a minute off my CS sunday record).
ReplyDeleteAlso very crisply cooked... I thought I was moving pretty fast through this one, but 2:30 it was not. :-) Nice job, Dan!
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