Timing TBLR Sudoku, 6/4/10-6/17/10

I’m not showing the period from 5/21/10 to 6/3/10, because even though I did some of the puzzles, I lost my notepad in which I was keeping the times. My children mocked me to scorn about my notepad, saying things like “Oh, it’s your little diary, it’s so cute!” But they’re just going to have to deal with it. But I digress.

For those who are just tuning in, this is the eleventh of a series of posts normally (but not this time) occuring once every two weeks. In these posts, I show how long it takes for me to do a Sudoku puzzle with the additional restriction of having to fill in the numbers in top-to-bottom, left-to-right order. Hence the name TBLR Sudoku.

I was contemplating using the loss of my notepad as an excuse to end this series of posts. But I’ve been attaining new personal bests recently. I haven’t gotten to the point where I don’t think I’ll be able to improve upon my times. You’ll know when I get there, because that will be the last post in this series.

Of course, some clever person might be able to improve on my times. Any competition would be interesting.

Here are the times for the last two weeks, shown with the difference between the time and my personal best for that level of difficulty. I don’t remember if I had a new personal best during the previous two-week period

6/17/10 – Didn’t do the puzzle
6/16/10 – 3-Star, 19:10, 8:16 improvement on previous personal best, 31% improvement. I was pleasantly shocked by this.
6/15/10 – Didn’t do the puzzle
6/14/10 – 1-Star, 24:24, 6:11 slower than my personal best (PB+6:11), and 33% slower than my personal best (PB+33%)
6/13/10 – Didn’t do the puzzle
6/12/10 – Didn’t do the puzzle
6/11/10 – 5-Star, 1:01:45, PB+30:07, PB+95%
6/10/10 – 4-Star, Fail
6/09/10 – 3-Star, 36:28, PB+9:02, PB+32%
6/08/10 – 2-Star, 32:49, PB+17:42, PB+117%
6/07/10 – 1-Star, 20:40, PB+2:27, PB+13%
6/06/10 – Unknown
6/05/10 – Unknown
6/04/10 – Unknown

1-Star: 18:13, 11/23/09
2-Star: 15:07, 4/27/10
3-Star: 19:10, 6/16/10
4-Star: 28:52, 2/18/10
5-Star: 31:38, 3/19/10
6-Star: 45:09, 2/13/10

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