Love fresh ripe pineapple. It is my favorite fruit of all time and reminds me when my BFF & I went to the Big Island of Hawaii. Such a spiritual place with so many friendly people.
I really don't understand why I'm so slow at these things. :-( I do them every day...and if I have time at work I do more than one but STILL I'm reams behind everyone else. Not doing it for the time obviously but I'm beginning to think I must be really dumb. Tried the round cut and am really enjoying it. Have a great day everyone...from a very, very hot (and dry) Johannesburg.
I wouldn't let timings worry you. Just compete with yourself.
I've been doing these puzzles nigh on a year now (just on a 1000 puzzles and counting) doing only the 192 classic model, and the best time I have achieved is just under 30 minutes. To do a puzzle in 6 minutes it means you are fitting a piece in place every 1.8 seconds! I believe the record for 192 classic is just over 2 minutes, or one piece fitted approximately every 0.75 seconds!
Well, horses for courses and all that, but I personally prefer to enjoy a puzzle. If I could do them in 6 minutes, I'd get bored with the ease of doing them, and would have found a tougher site.
I'm approaching the 33rd anniversary of my 40th birthday - I switched from celebrating birthdays at 40 to celebrating anniversaries. I've been doing cardboard puzzles all my life, and although I have switched to on-line, my wife and I, along with neighbours, and working on a 5, 000 piece puzzle - I would not recommend one doing this size unless you have an extremely large room - or a warm, dry, weatherproof garage, with the car staying out in all weathers.
I can remember as a 10 year old having only three large circular 500 piece puzzles of identical cut and doing them repeatedly - sometimes upside down (no pix showing) and sometimes I would mix them all together and then doing all at the same time. Other times I would do one the conventional way then, as the cut was identical, pick a piece at random from the next puzzle and find its 'twin' on the first puzzle, always placing the piece I was holding on its 'twin' before selecting at random another piece.
Enjoy the puzzle - timing isn't everything! It's the enjoyment of completing the thing that counts!
Shortshoughton
Mar 2, 2016
Thank you for that! Don't feel nearly so bad now. Hope you have an awesome day!
I wouldn't let timings worry you. Just compete with yourself.
I've been doing these puzzles nigh on a year now (just on a 1000 puzzles and counting) doing only the 192 classic model, and the best time I have achieved is just under 30 minutes. To do a puzzle in 6 minutes it means you are fitting a piece in place every 1.8 seconds! I believe the record for 192 classic is just over 2 minutes, or one piece fitted approximately every 0.75 seconds!
Well, horses for courses and all that, but I personally prefer to enjoy a puzzle. If I could do them in 6 minutes, I'd get bored with the ease of doing them, and would have found a tougher site.
I'm approaching the 33rd anniversary of my 40th birthday - I switched from celebrating birthdays at 40 to celebrating anniversaries. I've been doing cardboard puzzles all my life, and although I have switched to on-line, my wife and I, along with neighbours, and working on a 5, 000 piece puzzle - I would not recommend one doing this size unless you have an extremely large room - or a warm, dry, weatherproof garage, with the car staying out in all weathers.
I can remember as a 10 year old having only three large circular 500 piece puzzles of identical cut and doing them repeatedly - sometimes upside down (no pix showing) and sometimes I would mix them all together and then doing all at the same time. Other times I would do one the conventional way then, as the cut was identical, pick a piece at random from the next puzzle and find its 'twin' on the first puzzle, always placing the piece I was holding on its 'twin' before selecting at random another piece.
Enjoy the puzzle - timing isn't everything! It's the enjoyment of completing the thing that counts!
I love pineapple any way you serve it
I have a pineapple casserole that's good