Crosswordmania

[tahnan]

Bridget Jones recorded numbers for alcohol and cigarette and weight. Me? Crosswords. Times for the NYT daily crosswords:

Monday: 4:30 (no mistakes)
Tuesday: 4:43 (no mistakes)
Wednesday: 6:28 (no mistakes)
Thursday: 8:13 (no mistakes)
Friday: 16:32 (no mistakes)
Saturday: 11:43 (no mistakes)
Sunday: 21:27 (at least three mistakes, all three involving proper names, but at least two of which were fairly sloppy errors, one of them being a matter of writing a crossing word incorrectly)

Better than I was doing last year, and better than many, perhaps--but I feel I need to get faster than this if I'm going to make it into the B finals at next year's Crossword Tournament. (Stop snickering. Have you taken a good look at some of the things you take seriously? Sheesh.)

I'll keep posting my times here, so I have a record of them, and so I'm posting at least once a week.

Comments

[lemurtanis.livejournal.com]

Ha! I beat you on Monday! I beat you on Monday!

The rest of your week makes me slightly nauseous. Methinks you should cease complaining about your times and start making me faster. :)

[thedan.livejournal.com]

Geez... Just when I'm proud of finishing a Saturday with no mistakes in under 16 minutes...

I think my goal for key area of improvement is definitely accuracy. At Stamford this year I was quite happy with my times, but only got one puzzle completely right. But if Andrew Feist gets the hell out of the way, maybe I have a shot at a Junior prize next year.

you talking to me?

[jadelennox]

Stop snickering. Have you taken a good look at some of the things you take seriously? Sheesh.)

What the heck is snicker worthy about -- well, okay, that. Well, and there's that, but what about ... no, that, too.

Hmm.

Politics. I take politics seriously. And cats. So there.

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

Does the NYT crossword puzzle get harder as the week goes along? Not, that I should comment being that I haven't been able to solve a single crossword, ever.