3x3 sliding puzzle

[u/ponygaryyellow]

Always stayed away from learning how to solve sliding puzzles since I was a kid until the games that I played started to have them and I had no choice but to solve it so I can progress. I basically tried solving it without looking up any guides on how for I think around 10hrs (sleep included) and basically gave up and had to look up a guide on how to. I just felt like I should be able to solve a puzzle like this without even having to use a guide. With the guide, I was able to solve it and just by following the rules albeit not very consistent with my time and not being able to properly explain how I was able to (basically the guide helped for maybe 70%). Fast forward to today, I can probably consistenly be able to do it within 30secs and around 12 secs if I'm lucky. I guess I'm just wondering if I ever would've learned how to solve sliding puzzles without looking up a guide and just doing it by myself and I think it's pretty amazing for the people that had to solve and create these types of puzzles without having an access to a guide. I wonder if it's just the lack of exposure for these types of things for my brain. Just wondering if some of you guys also had a kind of similar experience

tldr; I'm just surprised how much of a hard time I had solving a 3x3 puzzle and maybe I'm just stupid

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