My best for the NYT Saturday crossword is 7.9 minutes, keyboard, using autocheck.
I've been recording my times since 2020, with the idea that any upward trend in solving times might provide early evidence of the onset of dementia. No evidence of that yet.
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I read your 'upward trend in solving times' as being good (upward trend, increase, etc. = better). Then I realized you want to solve them faster, so 'upward' meant you were taking longer to solve them - doing worse (or the puzzles were getting harder?). I guess that puts me on an 'upward trend'? or is that a 'downward trend'?
ReplyDeleteWhat I am recording is "time to solve" (Mondays average 5 minutes, Sundays about 20 minutes, other days scaling in between). So "upward trend" would mean more time to solve, which would have some ominous implications. So far the trend lines for each day are flat to slightly downward (from gaining experience).
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