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Just did 4:55. Chuffed. Got 5:02 a few months ago after typically getting closer to 6 minutes for a long time. That made me realise a sub-5 minute time was a possibility.

Not sure of any rules that everyone follows for a score to be considered "legitimate", but for my 4:55, I played straight through without pausing. I always have the thing turned on that tells you you've made an error, and if I do enter a wrong number, I abort that game. For myself, I only regard my games where I play clean through with no errors as legitimate. I do allow games that I've paused (phone call, doorbell, etc), but I'd only be cheating myself if I cheated - not really interested in any competitions or scoreboards.

I find the extreme times of around or below 4 minutes difficult to believe, but TBH a year ago, I'd have considered a sub 5 minute time unlikely for myself, so I'll keep an open mind.

Happy new year y'all.

Just got 4:17 on challenge x66

i got 02:19 as best. My scores are mostly between 02:20 and 02:40

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Best time is 3:28

I don't use auto-fill and validate or any help. It really depends on the puzzle you get. My average time is about 5mins.

Wow! I hope to be able to complete an extreme in under 10mins one of these days. However my best time was 14:49. I am usually between 16-25 mins.

I am going to work towards an 8-10 minutes completion goal.

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I just scored a 4:57 on an extreme puzzle, my personal best. I usually consider getting below 10 minutes as pretty good for me. It really does depend on the puzzle you get, though. In reference to previous posts mentioning 50/50 guessing... um... what?! Don't do that! You can always use logic to get the result.

Edit: My personal best is now 4:07 for Extreme.

04:12 best time, 6min average.

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Easy - 1:10
Medium- 2.09
Hard- 3.01
Extreme- 3.13

All are solved without helper or cheats or guessing..
(I've disabled the helper tho, i hate it when it say the puzzle is solve using helper)

I know some people just screenshot the puzzle and solved it elsewhere then just fill the puzzle with the answer.

I like to test my limit thats why i wont cheat

My average time for extreme is about 3.30

After solving lots of extreme puzzle ive discovered a way to solved it in 3 min..judging from my time, i think 2 min is possible with lots of luck...

I just solve the extreme puzzle below 3min for the first time!!

my new top times is:

easy: 1:06
medium: 1:50
hard: 3:01
extreme: 2:53

guess i need to improve my "hard" time

again, i solve all of these puzzle without cheating, guessing, helper, validate etc
all you need is fast thinking, fast finger and luck

like i say, ive discovered a way to solve these puzzle fast
with lots of practice you too can solve the extreme puzzle within 3min

My best for the extreme puzzle is 2:04. No I'm not a rocket scientist. I'm an IT student with a sudoku addiction.

Just solve the extreme puzzle in 2:46 yesterday
And being listed on the top 100 for the first time without cheating, helper, guessing or etc

Feeling great

3:50, set today, using full candidate lists (auto-updating), no pausing. Looks like I'd have to take 62 seconds off that to make the leaderboard though. If you could do it without using candidate lists, the times under 2 minutes might be possible without cheating; however, that would be difficult.

Several years ago I did have a flip phone with a sudoku game on it, and I could beat its hard setting in about the same amount of time as this, without candidate lists (it didn't have the capability), even though the input method was more analog, you had to scroll to each square.

If you're having trouble getting under 10 min, make sure you choose digit first so you can do candidate lists faster, and just go by number, starting with the numbers you already have the most of. The key is to use as few screentaps and to input them as fast as possible. I discovered that my time went down by more than 15 seconds on average when I stopped using a case on my phone so I could reach things a little more easily.

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my new record for extreme puzzle is

2.37

and again with NO helper (disable all help), validate, auto-fills, flag conflicting value, flag incorrect value, cheating, guessing, pausing etc

Average 6min per game best 2:40 never even thought of how to cheat till i read everyone elses remarks. Games use to take me well over an hour loved the challenge of getting better. Fast games now come about if the solving pattern is the same as my routine method. Never needed to guess

My best time is 1:30. I consistently place around 1:45. I obviously haven't figured how to make it in 1:10-1:20. Smarter pencil marking? Perhaps using the eraser while marking? Otherwise these guys are just plain quicker than me. Which I can live with.