35 seconds?? REALLY!!
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35 SECONDS........? NO WAY!!! WHAT IS GOING ON????
I'm slow and I did it in a minute:30 and 20 people beat me. So I'm thinking yeah.... really
I just did it in 31 seconds without cheating. Sometimes you get a freecell shuffle where you just click the top of the column that has aces, then 2's and 3's and so on. This is one of those shuffles. There's only a minimum of actual thought I had to put into this one - the occasional part where you have to play one card onto another, I think there was about 3 times I had to do that. Try it, just click click click wherever you see cards that need to go to the foundation.
It's all due to the way this site automates the moves. I call them "supermoves". Before they set it up that way, a really good score in freecell was around a minute and a half, when it actually required some thought. When I play the game of the day I just button mash to see if I can get a similar score to others. When I play random games on my own, I think every move out just because it's a lot more fun that way, to me.
I've complained about it on the forum here, but the owners of the site are set on it.
Today's game is another example of a shuffle that is easy to win if you just pretty much click everywhere (http://greenfelt.net/freecell?game=358039530)
I beat the game in 40 seconds with 24 moves. I clicked all over and then went back with undo and wrote down how I did it. Out of the 24 moves, 12 of them are moves where I either 1) clicked on the felt to send any cards to the foundation that could go there or 2) clicked the top of a column with no idea where the cards were going to go, but the game, in all of its automated wisdom, figured it out for me.
It doesn't work every time (depends on the shuffle), and it is possible to make wrong moves. Also I'm not saying there aren't cheaters, there are.
Here are the moves if you're curious. Where there's just a column number with no card indicated, that means I just clicked the top of the column.
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column 7 (ace spades)
col. 4 (king of diamonds)
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col. 1 (10 spades)
col. 5
bring 7 hearts down
col. 6
col. 2 (8 hearts)
bring king clubs down
col. 7
col. 8
bring down 9 clubs, 8 diamonds
col. 3 (7 spades)
col. 2 (6 hearts)
col. 5
col. 4
col. 3 (10 hearts)
bring down king hearts
col. 1
col. 2
bring down king spades, queen hearts
col. 3
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Evanbrimstone and others, it bothers me, too, when I play a longer game, like 40 Thieves, and always find that a few people have finished much faster than seems reasonably likely.
My first solution is to change the score heading to Moves. I feel good if I make the top 5 in moves.
Back to speed--I wonder whether there is more automation than just the card-stack you describe above?! Or maybe those top speed players replay winning the same game over and over, till they're at the top of the leader board.
Am I missing something?