Andrew

I'm mostly a lurker in these parts, but I wanted to say thanks to all the columnists and regular posters in the comments thread who helped me reach a 1000 game streak today. Absorbing your knowledge has helped my solving skills tremendously, and while those 1000 games came with their fair share of lookups especially in the early days, those lookups are a lot fewer and further between now than they were in the beginning, even on the late week puzzles. I still somehow have an average time of 15 hours, 59 minutes and 10 seconds on Saturdays due to a timer glitch that the games team was unable to resolve, but perhaps in a decade I can get that average under 10 hours. Cheers and happy new year.

I finished this in 1.7% of my average Saturday time. Admittedly, this is partially because I’m still working on the technical glitch from years ago that still now has my average Saturday solve time at 622 minutes, but this was nevertheless still on par with my average Tuesday solve time.