0’44 mad dash no notes, segment-based faster path spoiler below Nice work! There’s always another way to solve these. The flexibility to attack a position using different tactics is so important. The 456 matrix is very effective too. I never had to consider it, but great to have it if momentum falters and that’s exactly how you use it. Scanning, Planning On the 2s at the start, the first 2 is found vertically. If you’d kept on vertically processing columns (say 1:04 to 1:45), you’d come to c4r3 and the 2s looking into c4. This gives us 2 on c6r2 which resolves that corner and c5. c5 is a baseline (see end of post). After the 2 at the r1 cross, the 3 is at r3, 2 is at r6 4 at r2, the 6 on r2. One column done. Both segments of c8 and then c6 finish. One half done. Then the segments of c2. The remnants fall. Three twos and a baseline…very fast. Ah, you found the 2 at 4:30 or so. Helps a bunch. If you’d found it earlier, then hit c5 as a baseline as above, you’d never need to resolve the 456 matrix. I posted the vid of my 44 second run as a UA-cam short. @permpuzzled -- A baseline is a segment in which solving a digit resolves another digit in that segment, and so on Often the entire segment, or all but an a pair or triplet, can be completed at once. This is often partially determined by cross segment length.
0’44 mad dash
no notes, segment-based
faster path spoiler below
Nice work!
There’s always another way to solve these. The flexibility to attack a position using different tactics is so important. The 456 matrix is very effective too.
I never had to consider it, but great to have it if momentum falters and that’s exactly how you use it.
Scanning, Planning
On the 2s at the start, the first 2 is found vertically. If you’d kept on vertically processing columns (say 1:04 to 1:45), you’d come to c4r3 and the 2s looking into c4.
This gives us 2 on c6r2 which resolves that corner and c5.
c5 is a baseline (see end of post). After the 2 at the r1 cross, the 3 is at r3, 2 is at r6 4 at r2, the 6 on r2. One column done.
Both segments of c8 and then c6 finish. One half done. Then the segments of c2. The remnants fall.
Three twos and a baseline…very fast.
Ah, you found the 2 at 4:30 or so. Helps a bunch. If you’d found it earlier, then hit c5 as a baseline as above, you’d never need to resolve the 456 matrix.
I posted the vid of my 44 second run as a UA-cam short. @permpuzzled
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A baseline is a segment in which solving a digit resolves another digit in that segment, and so on Often the entire segment, or all but an a pair or triplet, can be completed at once. This is often partially determined by cross segment length.
4:36
1:47 no notes. Definitely could've been quicker if I looked more at the 123s