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People will speed run anything! I run a little solitaire site that has leaderboards and the Frecell games are dominated by faster than 10 second completion time

People will speed run anything! I run a little solitaire site that has leaderboards and the Frecell games are dominated by faster than 10 second completion times. People complained in the forums about the times and how they must be by cheaters, and then the fast people started posting videos of themselves beating the games in seconds. They're truly impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRX-kxiNfes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRX-kxiNfes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSgdcH8JJI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSgdcH8JJI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgm3BoVxrMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgm3BoVxrMI

cabaalis 7y ago
I dated a girl in college ca. 2003 because we connected when she showed me she could "speedrun" freecell on my PDA. Not like these videos, but not far off either. Just thought I'd share that.
phreeza 7y ago
How does this work, are the people able to really solve the game this fast or are they memorizing sequences? Is it possible to see the game before the click starts?
- dwd 7y ago
  Memorising sequences is not the right way to look at it - it's simply a result of practice (or playing it too much): More like muscle memory where you see and act without consciously thinking about it. Watch speed solving Rubik's cubes to see how they do it on an instinctive level. With Freecell, once you know what you're doing you know at a glance what your options are: how deep a stack you can move and which cards are key to clearing out and in which order. As well as playing way too much Freecell back in the 90s I played Minesweeper to death. Probably a better example of how you can progress from needing to consciously work out where you could safely click, to knowing at a glance, to being able to click the one cell that would open up the area. If you were actually flagging bombs you were going too slow.

cabaalis 7y ago

I dated a girl in college ca. 2003 because we connected when she showed me she could "speedrun" freecell on my PDA. Not like these videos, but not far off either. Just thought I'd share that.

phreeza 7y ago

How does this work, are the people able to really solve the game this fast or are they memorizing sequences? Is it possible to see the game before the click starts?

dwd 7y ago
Memorising sequences is not the right way to look at it - it's simply a result of practice (or playing it too much): More like muscle memory where you see and act without consciously thinking about it. Watch speed solving Rubik's cubes to see how they do it on an instinctive level. With Freecell, once you know what you're doing you know at a glance what your options are: how deep a stack you can move and which cards are key to clearing out and in which order. As well as playing way too much Freecell back in the 90s I played Minesweeper to death. Probably a better example of how you can progress from needing to consciously work out where you could safely click, to knowing at a glance, to being able to click the one cell that would open up the area. If you were actually flagging bombs you were going too slow.