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  • #31
    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.









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    • #32
      "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.

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      • #33
        "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)

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        • #34
          "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.

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          • #35
            "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.

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            • #36
              "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!"

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              • #37
                "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.

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                • #38
                  "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.

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                  • #39
                    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)

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                    • #40
                      "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)

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                      • #41
                        "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....)

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                        • #42
                          "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

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                          • #43
                            "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

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                            • #44
                              "Warning: the Internet may contain traces of nuts."
                              — Unattributed

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

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                              • #45
                                Even the Yoknapatawpha County Dog Catcher???

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