‘The Olympics for puzzlers’, inside the world of competitive speed puzzling

Australian Community Media

An average jigsaw enthusiast can solve a 500 piece puzzle in about five hours, but some of the world’s fastest speed puzzlers can complete the picture in just half an hour!

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00:00Are you ready?

00:03Let's go.

00:04Five, four, three, two, one.

00:10Go.

00:11Let's go.

00:37When you are doing a puzzle, you are solving life's problems.

00:41It's like solving life's problems.

00:44Yesterday, I talked to some of the people here, and I told them that, you see, the piece has four sides.

00:51So, if someone solves a 500-piece puzzle in just 30 minutes, it's equivalent to solving 2,000 problems in 30 seconds.

01:02And I think that is very unique of any puzzle, to be able to do that, to figure out such a thing.

01:32I mean, inside, I was a little bit stressed out, but also I felt calm.

01:46Yeah.

01:47It was just me and my puzzle, so.

01:49Yeah.

01:51Look at this.

01:52Katrina Coleman.

01:53Oh, no, but look.

01:54Alejandro's only got a few.

01:55Oh, gosh.

01:56This is going to be so tight.

01:57Oh, Alejandro and Mercedes are neck and neck.

01:58Mercedes.

01:59And Katrina.

02:01And Katrina.

02:02And Katrina!

02:03And Alejandro.

02:05Katrina's got pieces missing.

02:07She pulls five.

02:09They were together, the missing pieces.

02:11They were...

02:12Oh, Katrina!

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