Happy New Year! Add your times here.
I think I'm taking a couple of days off, but the spreadsheets are scheduled to post...
Monday, 12/26/11
Add your times here!
So if BEQ is now publishing at 6pm, probably his puzzles should move back a day on the blog schedule... Never mind, his schedule isn't changing after all.
Sunday, 12/25/11
Merry Christmas! Add your times here. Or take the day off! I won't be offended. Hope everybody had a lovely holiday weekend.
Tuesday, 12/20/11
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I'm flying to San Francisco early this morning, so I'll be a little late with the solving.
Wednesday, 12/14/11
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I did some updating of the blogroll. Next up, the FAQ. Maybe a redesign? Nah, everybody loves the color scheme.
I did some updating of the blogroll. Next up, the FAQ. Maybe a redesign? Nah, everybody loves the color scheme.
Monday, 12/12/11
Click to add your times!
Housekeeping bits: I will include Jonesin' on Tuesdays, and AV Club/Inkwell on Wednesdays, because I think that's when people are likelier to solve them. Let me know if you have a preference. For next weekend (and tomorrow with Andrew's Rows Garden), I think we can dispense with the "p" for "paper" when there's no other way to solve it -- like diagramless and other variety puzzles, except for acrostics of course...
Housekeeping bits: I will include Jonesin' on Tuesdays, and AV Club/Inkwell on Wednesdays, because I think that's when people are likelier to solve them. Let me know if you have a preference. For next weekend (and tomorrow with Andrew's Rows Garden), I think we can dispense with the "p" for "paper" when there's no other way to solve it -- like diagramless and other variety puzzles, except for acrostics of course...
Friday, 12/9/11
Thanks for chiming in yesterday! This format should keep me interested for the foreseeable future.
I'll plan to auto-post each day at 10pm (6pm on weekends), so you don't have to wait until I've solved. I'll leave a column on the right in case there's something I've missed - feel free to add a heading. (By the way, now that Peter Gordon's The Week crossword is available in Across Lite, I'm adding it to the rotation... as soon as I find out what day it publishes.)
Link to today's Google doc.
MORNING ADDENDUM: Don't miss the BEQ guest puzzle today! I don't know how to make the embedded spreadsheet scrollable... I can see the rightmost column by click-dragging inside. Sometime I'll look at re-formatting the blog so the main column here is wider.
I'll plan to auto-post each day at 10pm (6pm on weekends), so you don't have to wait until I've solved. I'll leave a column on the right in case there's something I've missed - feel free to add a heading. (By the way, now that Peter Gordon's The Week crossword is available in Across Lite, I'm adding it to the rotation... as soon as I find out what day it publishes.)
Link to today's Google doc.
MORNING ADDENDUM: Don't miss the BEQ guest puzzle today! I don't know how to make the embedded spreadsheet scrollable... I can see the rightmost column by click-dragging inside. Sometime I'll look at re-formatting the blog so the main column here is wider.
Thursday, 12/8/11
Here's the spreadsheet idea I mentioned yesterday. Click here to add your times if you want to play. There's no registration or anything, just enter a name and some numbers, and the embedded spreadsheet updates automatically (it will say "All changes saved" at the top of the screen).
Wednesday, 12/7/11
NYT 1:36 ... LAT 2:02 ... CS 1:51 ... ND 1:22
It's been almost three years since I started posting my times every day, and I don't think I want to continue indefinitely. What's the point? My solving isn't accelerating anymore, and there's enough data here for... I don't know what, but 6,000 data points should be statistically sufficient for it.
Would anybody be disappointed if I only updated this site on the rare occasions when I have something useful to share? You can email me directly or comment. The other idea I had is to make this interactive -- if a half-dozen of you were willing to enter your times into a Google doc, through a handy link here that I'd update daily, we would have a more robust (and permanent) version of the Crossword Fiend leaderboard. I've tried that out and will include it on tomorrow's post so you can see what I mean.
It's been almost three years since I started posting my times every day, and I don't think I want to continue indefinitely. What's the point? My solving isn't accelerating anymore, and there's enough data here for... I don't know what, but 6,000 data points should be statistically sufficient for it.
Would anybody be disappointed if I only updated this site on the rare occasions when I have something useful to share? You can email me directly or comment. The other idea I had is to make this interactive -- if a half-dozen of you were willing to enter your times into a Google doc, through a handy link here that I'd update daily, we would have a more robust (and permanent) version of the Crossword Fiend leaderboard. I've tried that out and will include it on tomorrow's post so you can see what I mean.
Tuesday, 12/6/11
NYT 1:36 ... LAT 1:36 ... CS 1:44 ... ND 1:21 ... BT 2:37 ... TO 2:07
Kinda funny - two straight days with identical NYT and LAT times.
Kinda funny - two straight days with identical NYT and LAT times.
Sunday, 12/4/11
NYT 5:32 ... LAT 3:53 ... MR 3:57 ... BG 3:51 ... ND 3:39 ... CS 3:05 ... WP 2:50 ... Acrostic 5:15
Friday, 12/2/11
NYT (p) 3:28 ... LAT (p) 2:45 ... CS (p) 1:54 ... ND (p) 2:17 ... CHE (p) 3:31 ... WSJ (p) 6:11 ... BEQ/IL (p) 2:45 ... MWGC 1:47 ... PB2 (p) 5:52
Thursday, 12/1/11
NYT (p) 3:05 ... LAT (p) 3:04 ... CS (p) 2:58 ... ND (p) 2:12 ... BEQ (p) 5:06 ... TPP (p) 5:54
I had three 19x19 website puzzles in the queue (Jangler's latest, Blindauer's December), but I picked Trip's to print out today in honor of his Across Lite aversion...
I had three 19x19 website puzzles in the queue (Jangler's latest, Blindauer's December), but I picked Trip's to print out today in honor of his Across Lite aversion...
Sunday, 11/27/11
NYT 4:11 ... LAT 5:10 ... MR 3:56 ... BG 5:35 ... ND 3:28 ... CS 2:37 ... WP 3:19 ... Ring Toss (p) 6:50
Saturday, 11/26/11
NYT 5:51 ... LAT 3:10 ... CS 1:36 ... ND 4:21 ... Rows Garden (p) 15:50 ... TM #14 5:05 ... BEW #7 5:58 ... AR #51 (p) 15:30
Friday, 11/25/11
NYT 3:14 ... LAT 2:20 ... CS 1:54 ... ND 1:46 ... CHE 1:49 ... WSJ (p) 7:14 ... MGWC 5:03
Sunday, 11/20/11
NYT (p) 9:05 ... LAT (p) 6:38 ... MR (p) 6:36 ... BG (p) 6:58 ... ND (p) 5:11 ... CS (p) 3:05 ... WP (p) 4:34 ... Acrostic 8:20
Friday, 11/18/11
NYT (p) 4:51 ... LAT 2:28 ... CS 1:41 ... ND 2:13 ... CHE 2:11 ... WSJ 4:43 ... MGWC 3:20
Didn't have a chance to do the puzzles before my opening night. On the train back to New York, my colleagues were reading the NYT Arts section and had me do the puzzle. I can't remember the last time I actually solved on newsprint... considering it was after midnight and I was not fully sober, I'm surprised I broke 5 minutes.
Didn't have a chance to do the puzzles before my opening night. On the train back to New York, my colleagues were reading the NYT Arts section and had me do the puzzle. I can't remember the last time I actually solved on newsprint... considering it was after midnight and I was not fully sober, I'm surprised I broke 5 minutes.
Thursday, 11/17/11
NYT 3:24 ... LAT 2:05 ... CS 1:37 ... ND 1:34 ... BEQ 2:39 ... FB 7:00* (couldn't figure out rebus) ... AR #50 (p) 10:15
Monday, 11/14/11
NYT 1:35 ... LAT 1:45 ... CS 2:05 ... ND 1:13 ... JON 1:51 ... BEQ 3:05 ... TM 3:25
Found some time to catch up...
Found some time to catch up...
Sunday, 11/13/11
NYT 6:10 ... LAT 3:55 ... MR 3:45 ... BG 4:37 ... ND 3:24 ... CS 1:53 ... WP 3:09 ... Cryptic (p) 10:20
Slight hiatus as I enter tech week and try to finish some orchestrations. See you Tuesday, perhaps.
Slight hiatus as I enter tech week and try to finish some orchestrations. See you Tuesday, perhaps.
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