Advanced Tips: How to Practise for Speed Puzzling Competition | 7 Ways to Take It to the Next Level
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Tips for speed puzzlers and for those who are interested in jigsaw puzzles even if not competing. This is a followup video with more advanced tips or tweaks, as I like to call them, to my previous 'how to practise/prepare for speed puzzling competition'. Previous videos below:
How to practise for speed puzzling competition: • How to practice for sp...
How to prepare for speed puzzling competition:
• How to prepare for spe...
Today, I have you 7 more advanced and detailed tips. Please, excuse my a little bit long-winded, repetitious and occasional loss of correct words as I filmed this fresh out of hospital (I'm feeling a bit better now but my eyes may look a bit tired and red :D) I hope you will enjoy, and find something useful for your own practise! :)
0:00 - Intro
Small Tweaks to Consider:
2:41 - Your Left Hand
5:03 - Flipping Pieces
11:22 - Space Management
16:22 - Fine Motors Skills & Other Random Tips
Separate Skills to Practise & Development Tracking:
23:03 - Foreword on Speed Puzzling Skillset
24:24 - Puzzling Without an Image
26:36 - Recognising Individual Pieces
29:42 - Speed Puzzling 1000 Piece Puzzles
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Would you be interested in video with tips for pair or/and team speed puzzling? Not sure how many more tweaks I can come up for individuals in long-video format even thought there are lots to explore! :)
YES!!!!! ❤
YES!!! Absolutely. Please.
Yay! So glad you're back and feeling better!❤
Thank you. It's has been a journey with my condition but at least now it's more in cycles and not 24/7 out of it. I hope I will be able to do more videos because I really love doing them. :) Thank you so much for the support!
Alejandro is the only person I have seen who actually puzzles with 2 hands at the same time. He’s definitely one of the small percentage of people who can legitimately do two things at once.
I originally got the idea of the left hand from Kathi when see posted on IG that she did a puzzle in 27mins and I asked what was the trick.
But I agree, I haven’t literally seen yet anyone else doing it than Alejandro in real-time. I believe he has automated lots of puzzling processes, those that most of us still need to think about while doing, and that’s why he has more ”cognitive energy” to do better and almost like multitasking.
I’m going to use “pick and place” to redo a 500 piece Ravensberger for practice… I’ve seen Donnalouise do it and am surprised how fast she is… it will be torture but, I agree with you that it will be good practice…
Glad you are feeling better
Let's say that I don't think it's anyone's favorite practise. But so beneficial and also a cool trick you show for people who visit your home. :) Let us know how it goes for you. I must also check Donnalouise's video, thanks for mentioning that!
@@puzzlewithemilia I think you would be surprised how many people do "pick-and-place" as their standard technique and enjoy puzzling (only) this way. With a busy image I love to use that technique myself for leisurely puzzling. Huge advantage is that you need no extra space on your table! The fastest puzzler I know who uses pick-and-place as their main technique is "Viki puzzles" ( www.youtube.com/@Vikipuzzles ). She was 3rd and 6th at BOTYP I and BOTYP II (Battle of the UA-cam Puzzlers)...
I tried speed puzzling yesterday for the first time after watching your clip. My back feels today! Haha! 😂😂
Haha, I feel you. It’s a lot for your back, especially in the beginning!
This is actually so useful! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful. Thank you for the comment!
Thank you for the practicing tips!! I wish you lots of health and I hope you feel better :)
Thank you for watching and all the support! :)
Glad your back! 🧩🥳❤️
Yay! Thank you!
Thanks for this very helpful video. I would love tips for pairs and teams. I am glad you are slowly feeling better. Take all the time you need between your videos to take care of yourself. I am not planning to unsubscribe any time soon. I don’t know if your speed puzzling is improving, but the quality of your videos sure is! Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback and support. Not sure about my speed puzzling as I haven’t really done any for a month. But I must say that even when I played sports in international level, I feel like I was better in coaching positions than as a player - may have something to do with that. The lack of light in Finland is a bit struggle for videos though 😅
I’m sure tip videos for pairs and teams will come eventually because people are interested, now I will need dive deep into them first!
Hey!! HI. so glad to see you!! havent even watched the video yet... just glad to see you feeling better...
Thank you so much! I hope you will enjoy the video ❤️
Really good tips, it gave me a lot to think about. Glad to see you're doing a little better.
Glad you liked it and thanks for the support!
I’m glad you are feeling better. Love your videos. I discovered speed puzzling a couple of months ago and I have been practicing a lot but how much better can you get? I would love if you talked about your own progress from when you started until now and how long it has taken.
My times are not as good as I want them to be, on average I think I do a 500 piece puzzle around 2 h. Sometimes shorter but also longer than 2 hours. Best time I have got is 1 hour and 32 min but that was probably an easy puzzle. Worst time was over 3 hours.
Thank you for the support, lovely words and great ideas! It’s less than a year on my speed puzzling journey but I’m sure I will do some kind of ”anniversary” of speed puzzling video during the spring.
And I also had average of 2 hours when I started last year. Actually, I still had one puzzle in November that took me over 2 hours 😅 Your best time is really good. I’m sure you will get better and faster before you even notice it!
@@puzzlewithemiliaThank you, I hope so. My family thinks I got slightly obsessed with puzzles 😅I bought so many the last couple of months🙄🫣. Spent the morning speed puzzling all my smaller puzzles, 56-200 🧩 where my ppm is way better than with larger puzzles. Thanks for answering and I wish you a lovely weekend. 🌸
I was thinking that developing the use of your secondary hand, it would be easier to focus on your hands when just puzzling at a normal speed. After a while, it would be natural and would be automatic even during speed sessions.
You are absolutely right! Any way that gets your secondary hand ”included” to the normal so-called automatic mode, works. And taking it slower really helps to remember to try out new stuff.
I think some speed puzzlers puzzle as fast even when they puzzle on normal speed, at least for me that happens quite often, so I think it depends on each individual. 😊
Glad you're feeling better! And great tips. I had some practice drills based on some of these ideas on my list, but you gave me some ideas for a few more! I'd love to hear your tips for pairs/teams, especially if there are ways to practice specifically for those competitions alone.... if that's possible! :D I've also been doing some exercises to see if I can figure out the "right? amount of sorting when I flip, though of course that's different for every puzzle and every person.
So happy to hear this, thank you for the comment. I believe pairs and teams are completely different ball game so I will definitely start preparing a list of points for those.
With flipping… for me it was game changer when I stopped sorting and only did flipping. But now that I saw Alejandro sorting edge pieces I think I will try that and try to analyse (not too easy!) if it has any difference and to what direction.
@@puzzlewithemilia Seeing Kristin sort and still get amazing times has made me rethink my strategy too (I'm usually a sorter but mostly gave up on that for speed). I plan to do several drills with one puzzle--time myself just flipping, flip+edge, and flip+edge+1 other thing (what I usually do), and full sort. Just to see what the difference really is. I'll do this exercise with several different kinds of puzzles. Then I can at least know what some minimal sorting "costs" me.
Ahh yes, the space management!! 🤣 So tricky... 🙈 But thanks for pointing out that the box cover could be on the same side as the pieces! So clever!! 😁
How about piece cuts in Ravensburger puzzles? Do they differ a lot from puzzle to puzzle and would it be beneficial to learn at least the orientation of the pieces? 🤔 That's what I'm thinking of doing next. 🧐
Thank you so much for these wonderful videos and I wish you all the best and total recovery!! ❤️❤️ Happy new year! ❤️🙂
That’s a great point from you. I honestly have not really even thought about the cut yet - surely I pay attention to it when it’s ”bad” and most likely have some intuition / silent knowledge of it. I will take a deep dive into it!
And thank you for all the support and lovely words! ❤️
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Hi Emilia. Glad you are feeling better 🙂 I don't speed my puzzles, I just go slowly 😂 Which Jumbo puzzle do you have on your shelf?
Thank you, and good catch. It’s called Postcard from Paris. Miles Graft, Vintage Collection, 500 pieces by Jumbo. Not sure what year but it feels pretty old one!
speed practising: I split a 9x9 section from a bigger puzzle and assemble it 4 times in a row. At the end will be easier to find places, so the picking, moving, inserting technique was in the focus.
This is weird to realise my brain's decisions, subconscios chooses the next pieces, and I don't need to think about that, just pick the next....
Yeah it’s surprising sometimes when you just pick up a piece and put it in the right spot without even knowing yourself how did it happen! Our subconscious mind is very powerful!
how to you track your times (or a ppm value)? With different puzzles there is variation in time. So not a good visible trend.
I personally track both total times and ppm. I think it would be interesting if it would be possibly to track ppm changes throughout the whole process minute by minute of doing one puzzle but I guess that would need some type of AI camera program or lots of manual calculating from a video. 😅
More important is to follow on average times of multiple puzzles and not too often. Depends ofc how many puzzles you do a month but I do 3-5 puzzles in a week and I usually compare at monthly averages for development. Weekly averages wouldn’t show too much for me anymore. It’s like your puppy growing up, you don’t really see it but people who see your dog not that often see it clearly.
Sometimes comparing to other people’s time helps too. For example if you do old WJPC puzzles, you could compare your time with a specific person (similar to you if possible to choose) from qualification to final - all puzzles - and see if you are ”catching up” with the time difference. This ofc requires that you do puzzles and practise in between. If I would do now all puzzles in a row from e.g. Kathi’s WJPC journey I wouldn’t see any difference but if I do first one, then practise, then do another she did in semifinal, then practise again, and then do her final puzzle, I could possible somehow compare if I’m getting closer = developing.
@@puzzlewithemilia So do you track this is an excel sheet?
One idea for flipping, this is important to put the piece as close as possible after flipping, not a further spot on a table.
Could be funny to see an in process ppm tracking. First few minutes: 0, then starts to speed up, will be some up and down speeding depends on the image's area. The full assembling is more important I thing.
You can count it from the video, and stop in every minutes, then write down the full assembled pieces number. Rest is an excel formula. If you join islands, this is no extra number.
@@peterfarkas943 I used Puzzle Tracker app earlier but I found excel easier. The app also has paid version, not sure what features does it have.
And that’s a good point for flipping too. To avoid all extra and unnecessary moving.
I think I will try out the ppm calculation later. Hopefully for some puzzle I do super fast so there is less minutes to calculate.
@@puzzlewithemilia Or make a few minutes ppm tracking video about the top puzzlers. I am curious what is their peak ppm rate, we see the avg. is approx 15.
Are puzzle trays necessary for speed puzzling? If so, How do you effectively organize them so they do get in the way? 😃🧩
I would not use puzzle trays for solo competitions (as long as they are with 500 piece puzzle). However, I have seen those used in pair and team competitions with bigger puzzles and there they do not only make sense with sorting but also make space management easier. In pairs/teams in WJPC I would place trays outside of the white puzzle building area on the sides of the table. :)