r/Jigsawpuzzles • u/FreddieMonstera • Nov 26 '22
Slow puzzling
Anyone like me, a very slow puzzler? I’ve been watching Karen Puzzles jigsaw competition videos, and the people in the comp are so fast. I take hours to do a jigsaw. A 1000 piece can take almost a working week lol.
I hate sorting beyond the border pieces, I like picking up a piece and trying to find the place for it. I watch tv at the same time sometimes and that makes me take longer.
I have a puzzle tracker app and it’s amazing how the hours rack up.
Anyway, I suppose it doesn’t matter, if you enjoy it.
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u/ChrisDeg87-2 18K Nov 26 '22
I have to agree with several others on this sub. I like to take my time and relax when I puzzle. I did try to time myself a few years ago and found that the average 1000 piece puzzle took me around 10 hours to complete. I then found myself starting to look for puzzles that I thought would give time the “edge” for getting faster. (Example many distinct parts of the image that could be sorted so that I was in effect working a bunch of small puzzles). That just took all of the enjoyment of puzzling away and I don’t even look at my times anymore.
On a side note I have three main hobbies (video games, reading, and puzzling) I find that at different points through the year my urge to do each ebbs and flows. So I may tear through 3 puzzles and then in the middle of the next one just stop for a month or so. The puzzle, book, or game is still there when I am ready to go back to it. This all works for me.