Fishy

[TRex]

How can a person enter all possible 93 words in less than six minutes?

[mkenuk]

....or 212 words in 13 minutes in a recent 10-letter game. It's easy enough to work out how (partner dictating words from an online anagram solver, perhaps). The question is why?
It seems not everyone plays the game in the same way, or for the same reasons that you and I do, TRex.

MK

[Gaye Christine]

Out of curiosity, which puzzle was that, TRex?

[Dragonman]

  as to WHY? MK it seems some people want their 5 minutes of fame at any price.
 They lose the joy of finding that elusive last word ( which I rarely get ) but as yoy have said previously  '' by any means''

 Dragonman

[pat]

It's been said many times in the past that those who consistently get all the possible words every day, or nearly every day, don't play the game in the same way or for the same reasons that most of us do.

But who cares? I'm sure they don't imagine that they impress the rest of us with their scores (if they do they're sadly mistaken) and I'm equally sure that they get their satisfaction out of their own methods of playing.

Each to their own (with a nod to ensiform). 

[ensiform]

As I always say, every man has their own way of making her way in this world.

[TRex]

Out of curiosity, which puzzle was that, TRex?

combating

[Gaye Christine]

Out of curiosity, which puzzle was that, TRex?

combating

Asking that was actually a "duh" moment - I had not yet played the puzzle and looked at the common words total, not the total words of 93.

Was a new record set today??

[tiggerbelle]

Funny how some people are naturally suspicious. I'm simply in awe of those who have a kind of brain that can quickly spot combinations of letters.  There is such a thing as aspergers/autism and it has its advantages in games like these. 

But even I can remember common combinations: diet edit tide tied, or time emit item mite, or rinse risen siren serin resin.  When I first started playing this game, I could not believe how fast certain players were.  Now it's not so unbelievable.

Keyboard skills come into to it too. Do those who marvel at speed know that if you hit the comma key, it brings up the last word you entered?  It makes it easy to add suffixes very quickly.

ciao for now
Tig

[pat]

Tig, I think we all have certain combinations of letters like those you mentioned that automatically provide a handful of words whenever they appear. I also agree that varying forms of autism might have an advantage in word games, although I'm sure you'll agree it's unlikely that all of those who get all the words every day are autistic to some degree.

The rare words that most of us know are either relatively, but not totally, uncommon words, or words connected with a specialist interest. For someone to retrieve every possible word from his or her brain every day, very often with 100% accuracy (which means they never incorrectly play an invalid re- or -er word, a mistake that I'm sure most of us make) is, to me, simply not credible.

However, if there are indeed people who are genuinely brilliant then I offer them my sincere apologies for doubting them.

[TRex]

What Pat said.
 

[Tom44]

I used to play the challenge game a lot and tried hard to keep the 100% correct which also meant I seldom got a high total.  I do well in the standard game because I make a lot of misses.  Sometimes even looking a word up does not help because some words that look good are rejected.  Without any evidence to support it other than my own self, I simply don't understand how anyone can be so lexigraphically brilliant to consistently get every word every day with a 100% hit rate.  Add to that no pause for reflection (based on how fast they go in, which is faster than most of us can type) and it is obvious why it seems fishy.  To me, it has the marks of a computer program.  But, not accusing anyone of anything. 

[Gaye Christine]

What Pat said.
 

Seconding TRex's comment on Pat's comment (and Tom44's) - we all have good days (I had one yesterday with the 10 letter puzzle, walloped through it  ) but I don't see how someone can do that with each puzzle, every day, without fail, without error.  If it's genuine, then I bow to them (and go green with envy), if not then WHY???

[pat]

I'm sure there are various reasons for your 'why' question, GC, but it's unlikely that we'll find out what they are as none of the top scorers have ever responded to this topic on the occasions that it's arisen (and indeed, why should they?).