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Hikaru vs. spicycaterpillar, Who is faster in puzzle rush?
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spicycaterpillars average puzzle rating is approximately 3 higher.
Spicy is not he, it is she
No of moves are quite useless in accessing the difficulty of puzzle. In solving puzzles, we have to see from move 1 to move 5 or 6 (whatever is puzzle depth). Branching trees, familiarity of patterns , repeating same puzzles etc make the difference in thinking time. A bullet player can move 3 to 4 moves in 1 sec.
Thinking time for unfamiliar puzzle is a waste of time, not the moves!
Apr 5, 2019
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I think Puzzle Rush developers may avoid that type of ambiguity by changing problem selection algorithm in a way that total number of moves in every generated problem sequence of length N is always larger than in any problem sequence of length N-1.
Apr 5, 2019
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OldHatGrandpa wrote:
in a way that total number of moves in every generated problem sequence of length N is always larger than in any problem sequence of length N-1.
That is a cool thought.
151 and 139 is indeed quite a difference. 151 is 9 % more.
On April 3, 2019 Hikaru repeated his personal puzzle rush record by solving 55 puzzles:
https://www.chess.com/puzzles/rush/hikaru/2twziA
On April 4, 2019 spicycaterpillar solved 56 puzzles, and became world #1 in that activity:
https://www.chess.com/puzzles/rush/spicycaterpillar/33ZdYa
Based on those results it seems obvious that spicy is slightly faster in solving those puzzles.
But looking in some details, I noticed that Hikaru made 151 moves solving 55 puzzles,
whenever spicy made 139 moves solving 56 puzzles.
Hikaru's 55 puzzles:
5 problems with 1 moves { 1 2 4 10 11 }
29 problems with 2 moves { 3 5 6 7 9 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 31 34 36 38 40 41 44 48 51 55 }
12 problems with 3 moves { 8 18 25 28 29 30 32 35 37 42 46 52 }
2 problems with 4 moves { 33 47 }
2 problems with 5 moves { 45 53 }
2 problems with 6 moves { 39 49 }
2 problems with 7 moves { 43 54 }
1 problems with 8 moves { 50 }
Total=151 moves
Spicy's 56 puzzles:
9 problems with 1 moves { 1 2 4 5 6 7 15 22 31 }
28 problems with 2 moves { 3 8 9 10 12 13 16 17 18 21 24 25 26 27 28 29 32 33 34 35 36 37 39 41 44 45 49 51 }
10 problems with 3 moves { 11 14 19 23 30 38 40 53 54 55 }
5 problems with 4 moves { 42 43 46 47 50 }
3 problems with 5 moves { 20 48 52 }
1 problems with 9 moves { 56 }
Total=139 moves
Based on those results I'm not quite sure that spicy is really faster here...