Solve Sudoku Puzzles

Sudoku – how fast can you solve? What are the tricks? ?

I was wondering how fast people can solve a medium level puzzle? I go onto websudoku and solve in about 8 minutes but apparently 60% of people are faster. ?? Does that sound accurate? How fast do you solve?

Practice. Seriously, the more puzzles you do the easier you will find them as you start to notice patterns.I usually take time but the fastes I could solve an average puzzle was about 5-mins.

There are various ways of finding out which numbers go where as well, ie there needs to be a 1 in each column and row. There needs to be a 1 in each square. 1 can’t be repeated in any row, column or square. You often need to combine looking at all of the above to solve the puzzles. Occaisonally you may need to guess a choice between two numbers and play it out to see which number actually goes there (ie its only after you’ve filled in 4 or 5 squares afterwards that you can see if it worked or not).

Unfortunately there isn’t a single easy trick to solve sudoku puzzles easily or quickly, but if you seriously want to improve your skills, perhaps buy a book or look for dedicated sites on the internet and as I said first – practice!

Hope this helps.

Also here’s a link to a Question which gives you some websites

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aly3IMaTYNFpAYqj8V4HeSUjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080828061145AAKGwMo

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