[extropy-chat] RE: TOP 2 IQ Percentile

[Emlyn]

You will spoil the experiment if you go sharing what you've learnt on the list!

<slap across back of head>

Whoops, sorry for the violence.

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Emlyn

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On 24/11/05, Acy Stapp <acy.stapp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alright. I'm using the puzzles from http://www.sudoku.com.au/ since
> they have a good-sized free archive. I'm just starting with today's
> and working backward. Anyone else? Todays puzzle I solved in 23
> minutes and discovered a few tricks. I also found that there are
> multiple answers to some puzzles, at least today's front page easy
> one.
>
> Acy
>
> On 11/23/05, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > OK do 50.  Keep track of the solve times.  spike
> > On 11/22/05, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >  So we each do exactly 50 sudokus, then time ourselves on an identical
> > sudoku
> >  to see who learned the most tricks doing the first 50.  Then we are
> > actually
> >  measuring something that is more towards IQ than how good we already are at
> >  puzzles; we measure how fast we learn a new puzzle.  It's a puzzle-learning
> >  contest as opposed to just a puzzle contest.  I expect the younger among us
> >  will get faster quicker.  But will they end up faster than the veteran
> >  puzzle prole?
> >
> >  Who is in?
> >
> >  spike
> >
> >
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