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At some point you have to recognize that you have gotten as much out of this game as you are going to and move on to harder sudoku software. This one was my favourite for a very long time and I got my moneys worth. Time to move on

It would be nice to see more extreme++ puzzles that require chains to solve.

Sadly if you memorize too many patterns rather than think through the puzzles they can become too easy. I have stopped using pencil marks and enjoy the occasional chain that comes up that is deeper than 3 or 4 pairs but it would be nice to be able to select a level that will always require more than entering the solution as quickly as possible.

My top 5 this month are in the 3's in extreme with all hints turned off. Most of these are of course easy solves. That said I think there is plenty of opportunities for me to break into the 2's without changing strategy and simply going faster.
Getting into low 2's is likely going to take my learning to recognize some of my less well understood strategies better (quicker recognition or more cases).

I would like to see an extreme++ kind of level that presses me to spend more time thinking through the puzzle. Extreme only occasionally generates a really tough puzzle. Most of them are consistently solvable for me in the 5's.

If your recognition of the puzzle is good you shouldn't be limited by much more than how fast you can enter the result. I can't really comment about sub 2 but I can see an awful lot of room for improvement in my current results with simple brute force practice to improve consistency and recognition. In orde to get better at more complex 2 and 3 step solves I suspect I would need to spend more real think time on it rather than just simple pattern recognition and I'm still pretty lazy about taking the easy improvements.

I'm running in the 5's pretty consistently with all help turned off. A few low 4's in the last couple of weeks and no 3's.

I suspect that I can get into the high 3`s using my current strategy but beyond that I will likely need to become a bit more flexible with my recognition. I still tend to be a bit too structured. A more holistic approach seems to be the most likely way of doing extreme in the 2's.

An obscene level that requires a few of the more esoteric strategies would be nice to have at this stage. Only seems to be available in some of PC based software.