Suduko: Augment Your Suduko Speed & Solve All Puzzles In Five '

By Author: Richard Runion
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Are you aware that you could successfully complete any Suduko puzzle in 5 ' !? Including the fiendish puzzles!

As you will be aware, there are 2 methods to successfully complete Suduko: The Conventional Method, and The Possibility Matrix Method. If possible, learn both methods, but at the least learn the Conventional Method properly, because this is the best suited to successfully complete them quickly. You may learn both these methods at:
http://www.Sudokuvillage.com/Top10SudokuResources.htm .

On the other hand, successfully completing Suduko in 5 ' is a different cup of tea. You don't need to be a Suduko buff to successfully complete Sudukos quickly. techniques and lots of practice will not be enough, by themselves, unlike what many people may feel. With just the help of appropriate strategies & exercises, even a novice could learn to successfully complete nearly all Suduko puzzles in 5 ' flat!

There are 22 secret tips we will have to learn in order to successfully complete Sudukos quickly, just as pros do; some of these techniques mean learning to:
* improve our reflexes, with a set ...
... of exercises
* memorize the patterns and learn how to solve each using definite techniques
* prioritize the sequence of application of the techniques
* move the eyeballs through the Suduko puzzle rapidly, using exercises to master this skill
* kick the habit of double checking, and begin doing them correctly the first time
* utilize the frequency of occurrence of numbers to choose the appropriate cells to deal with first
* run through the Suduko puzzle as a chain
* quit the chain whenever faced with diminishing returns
* use the 'Golden Rule' as a last resort.

Out of these tips, a few are worth explaining briefly.

There are definite patterns that come about in Suduko. When we learn these patterns properly and can see these patterns as we see them, we can successfully complete them almost immediately, and this will multiply our Suduko solving speed substantially.

There does exist a definite sequence for the application of the techniques that should help multiply our speed. When we master this sequence so properly as to make its application similar to second nature, our Suduko solving speed will multiply substantially

Importantly, even a novice can master to successfully complete most Suduko quicker than 'not too fast' buffs . That is since quickness of tackling has almost nothing to do with the tougher techniques.

When we speedily grasp the maximum frequent occurrence of the values in the filled cells, and successfully complete for such values first, we will successfully complete the whole Suduko puzzle quicker.

We often tend to move our eye balls lazily. When we begin shifting our eye balls speedily, (exactly the same way speed readers do), our quickness of successfully completing Suduko will multiply too.

We may tend to keep back-tracking to see whether we did the latest step right. When we begin successfully completing them right in the first attempt, and avoid back-tracking, again we should have enhanced our Suduko solving speed significantly.

Now, go on to successfully complete your Suduko puzzles swifter, and show the world that you too can!

Here is to a quicker Suduko solving experience!

Rich :~)
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Suduko Village
A FREE Online Suduko Community

PS: Suduko is spelt and pronounced in many correct ways - as Suduko, Sudoku, Su doku, etc; every one of these refer to the same puzzle game. Publishers, Newspapers and web sites like to call it 'Sudoku'. However, this article calls it as 'Suduko'.