Presence of cheaters / hackers

[AnthC1]

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can these 5 second times be deleted from boards? Have lost a lot of #1's to this.

[Spenglord]

Is there a way to actually see this or u just guessing? im curious about my rankings

For every 100 I actually complete, I don't get top 10 like 4/5 times. Completed over 2200+ so just took a stab in the dark. Don't think I would be too far off.

I wish there was a sure-fire way to check.

[AnthC1]

Im top 10 in over 2000 8x8 1 star, keep cheating your way through the levels, you will find me :)

Is there a way to actually see this or u just guessing? im curious about my rankings

[Spenglord]

Im top 10 in over 2000 8x8 1 star, keep cheating your way through the levels, you will find me :)

[piterusz]

I can't recall you ever being in top 10 lol

[Spenglord]

Losing my #1's to this idiot. Should be auto-flagged for times like this

[AnthC1]

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another 5 second time

[piterusz]

Feel free to delete my times

[AnthC1]

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im calling piterusz out. I dont belive that time.

[AnthC1]

tbqh if you're doing hundreds or even dozens of puzzles, you're almost certainly not going to retain any information on the solved layout. I've done puzzles multiple times, sometimes slower, sometimes faster, and I've literally never thought "oh yeah I've seen this one."

Also, re: the 10x10 2*, If I can hit into the 40's as someone who draws dots, sgro can 100% hit better times without drawing them

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I've done thousands of 8x8 and can say that I do recognise some of the puzzles when I see them again but absolutely dont remember the solutions. I doubt any normal human can be seriously remembering solutions and cheating this way.

[AnthC1]

14*14 in under 10 seconds?? I'm seriously impressed by all those who do the 8*8 in 13 or so seconds. I don't think I've ever taken less than about 40. I guess some can see the "no" without having to put dots in, but that's still a lot to remember even if you do save time not clicking thrm

Im not quite at the top but have A LOT of first place finishes and am consistently in the top 10 in like 80-90% of the runs I do. I think the guys doing under 10 seconds like kraker and patrick in 8x8 are not puting in dots but I have some good times sub 15 secs and I generally cover atleast 80-90% of the board with dots.

[varl]

Can agree with this, but what I keep seeing is a lot of the top 10 results are from people who've managed to replay the same puzzle, not sure how that's possible? Surely leads to cheating?

tbqh if you're doing hundreds or even dozens of puzzles, you're almost certainly not going to retain any information on the solved layout. I've done puzzles multiple times, sometimes slower, sometimes faster, and I've literally never thought "oh yeah I've seen this one."

Also, re: the 10x10 2*, If I can hit into the 40's as someone who draws dots, sgro can 100% hit better times without drawing them

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[sgro]

Another one to call out, user Sgro. Seems to be the #1 finisher on a lot of the 10x10 2 star puzzles, yet only has a 35% overall success rate? Seems like a bot that was trained and now cranking out unrealistic times.

Nothing unrealistic about my times. I'm just the only person doing 10x10 2 stars without putting dots on non-stars. My success rate is lower because I have to make guesses at some point in most puzzles since I'm going as fast as possible and not putting dots. If I guess wrong and can't correct it pretty fast I just move on. Also, I've been working on those records for a year.

[Goodeone]

Another one to call out, user Sgro. Seems to be the #1 finisher on a lot of the 10x10 2 star puzzles, yet only has a 35% overall success rate? Seems like a bot that was trained and now cranking out unrealistic times.

[kirkmcg]

How do you know they replayed the same puzzle? Unless you mean because there's multiple comments from them but then you can see how far apart they played it.

To be fair only seen one where I've noticed the date since - was a month between first and second attempt. So yeah I guess that checks out