Things that Bansai left for us

[LLapp]

Fast Times: The Man, The Robot, The Legend

"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question." — Unattributed

LiveLoveLaugh
November 8, 2009, 12:52 pm
Ban are they referring to you?
bansaisequoia
April 16, 2010, 6:56 pm
Me and everyone else on this site. We all sometimes solve one before we've really had a chance to read it and fully comprehend it.

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"That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good." — Samuel Johnson

acrosticman
September 3, 2010, 1:36 am
11 seconds is over a hundred words per minute typing never mind solving, who are you kidding?
patsy86
October 15, 2011, 7:03 pm
No kidding, he's just that good. Also, you can't count wpm since letters autofill.
puffybob
October 16, 2011, 8:23 pm
He's a prodigy, not a cheater.
BuschMan
February 5, 2012, 4:40 pm
Don't hate the player, hate yourself.
montyb
April 6, 2013, 12:20 am
Yes, acrosticman, he is that good!
fishbum
May 14, 2013, 6:45 pm
I wonder if Bansai uses auto-fill. If he does he would have to think about which keystrokes to skip.
Barnabas
December 6, 2015, 5:19 am
acrosticman - he (Bansai) folds laundry with his other hand while he plays here!
abra
February 2, 2017, 12:34 pm
bansai is a legend, but there a lot of other good solvers, nanrich is incredibly fast and a 100%er. I'm in awe of a lot of people.

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"There are some remedies worse than the disease." — Publilius Syrus

utahnancy February 25, 2012, 2:38 pm
How can these be solved in 6 seconds?
Allen
September 28, 2013, 7:35 am
Don't know: Bansai solved it in 5.
sulliemae
February 19, 2015, 3:59 am
How does he type it so fast?
abra
March 10, 2016, 2:55 pm
Super power.
marnita
September 11, 2016, 7:10 am
If I can do it in 11 seconds, it does not surprise me that Bansai can do it in 5.

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"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." — Thomas Jefferson

abra
August 17, 2013, 1:34 am
Within 7 seconds of bansai! That's a red letter day for me.

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"What a man thinks of himself - that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate." — Henry David Thoreau

abra
June 8, 2014, 11:04 am
Wow! Less than twice bonsai's score. Happy Dance.

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"Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal." — Tobias Dantzig

joma1944
September 16, 2015, 7:33 am
The closest I can get to bansaisequoia's record is 31 seconds to his 10 seconds. I'll never get closer

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"The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders." — Anne Besant

badbob
July 23, 2018, 8:24 pm
WOO-HOO!!!!!!! first one here until bansai shows up

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"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. " — Oscar Wilde

oddcouple
December 6, 2019, 8:36 am
Well, bansai only beat me by 1406 seconds on this one.

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"A friend is what the heart needs all the time." — Henry Van Dyke

emoney
December 23, 2013, 5:18 pm
yep, robot.
SippyGurl
September 5, 2018, 1:25 am
your friend is a robot?
LLapp
July 9, 2019, 4:08 pm
emoney probably meant that the 8-sec. record (which by the way has stood 6 years!!) was conclusive proof that Mr. Sequoia is a robot, which of course we all know he is not.
Disturbed1
July 10, 2019, 2:29 pm
That's what he, I mean it, wants you to think LLapp. Clearly, bansai is a cyborg.
abra
October 14, 2019, 5:39 pm
RIP Bansai.

[Eureka]

"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees."
— Hal Borland

bansaisequoia
January 17, 2010, 6:45 pm
Some of my best drinking buddies are ents.

montyb
May 22, 2012, 7:08 pm
Cheers, Treebeard.

bansaisequoia
October 1, 2012, 7:09 pm
Someday, I'll buy you an ent-draught at one of our watering holes, monty.

[LLapp]

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." — John Erskine

bansaisequoia
September 24, 2010, 7:02 pm
What about when Dmitri Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony is parodied in the 4th movement of Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra?

nelnose
June 7, 2012, 7:42 am
What about Rod Stewart yp Maggir May?

Lurker
August 22, 2012, 12:04 am
Most Looney Tunes soundracks are definitely sarcastic.

bansaisequoia
October 15, 2012, 3:19 am
How about this? (link)

[LLapp]

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." — Virginia Woolf

bansaisequoia
June 22, 2009, 11:29 pm
One of my favorite plays is Albee's, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." But when I get one of her quotes on this site, I have to answer as Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) did in the film; "I am."

marnita
October 26, 2016, 8:29 am
I feel a little better about my slow time, knowing that even Bansai struggles with her quotes.

[opallady]

"Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them."
— Robert Brault

bansaisequoia
October 6, 2011, 10:15 pm
C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1. Han Solo: Never tell me the odds.

[bees]

"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."
bansaisequoia
June 11, 2009, 3:21 pm
And bumper stickers are funnier. "That was Zen--This is Tao!"

[opallady]

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
— Jules de Gaultier

bansaisequoia
September 17, 2014, 12:38 pm
Actually, light sabers, Vorpal Swords and Mjolnir are known to work, too.

[opallady]

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. "
— Ogden Nash

bansaisequoia
March 16, 2010, 12:06 am
People who get paid more than people who work.
bansaisequoia
February 18, 2011, 4:52 am
But there are stand-up comics who make millions and seamstresses in overseas sweat shops who sit down and make squat.

[LLapp]

As of today, Bansai still has the 15-second record on this quote, set on Oct. 22, 2012.

"Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees." — J. J. Fumas

Lurker
June 3, 2010, 1:40 pm
What about bansai sequoia trees?

LiveLoveLaugh
August 19, 2010, 12:32 pm
my question exactly?

maradnu
April 17, 2011, 12:07 am
How small of you to ask.

chopstix
October 21, 2012, 5:53 pm
I would've been very surprised if he didn't have the record time on this one.

gryhnd51
August 5, 2013, 5:10 am
all these years I've been playing, and I think this is the first time I've gotten this quote! Of COURSE, Bansai has the record! Kudos, Joseph.

bansaisequoia
January 11, 2017, 12:22 pm
Kudus to you, also! (link)

[Eureka]

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. "
— Pablo Picasso

bansaisequoia
August 8, 2009, 11:36 pm
So was Picasso some kind of Karma Chameleon?

LiveLoveLaugh
July 6, 2010, 12:25 pm
you have to check with Boy George

bansaisequoia
December 18, 2010, 3:45 am
Or was he forecasting a mood ring trend?

(13 second record set by bansai on Dec 18, 2010 still stands today)

[Eureka]

"Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars."
— Serbian proverb

bansaisequoia
April 2, 2012, 8:01 pm
What smells awful and sounds like a bell??? DDUUUUNNNNGGGGG!!!!!

(I think bansai got stuck on the same word that I did....)

[Eureka]

"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress."
— Charles W. Eliot

bansaisequoia
August 24, 2012, 1:48 pm
No wonder this country is in economic turmoil.

As of today:

1. bonsaisequoia July 28, 2009 13 seconds
2. bansaisequoia March 25, 2011 14 seconds

[opallady]

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
— Albert Einstein

bansaisequoia
August 1, 2012, 2:01 am
"The same thing we do every night, Pinky--try to take over the world!"--The Brain

[opallady]

"Warning: the Internet may contain traces of nuts."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
July 30, 2011, 2:23 pm
I'm not just a trace.

[vintage38]

Even the Yoknapatawpha County Dog Catcher???