In speedcubing there's a concept called look ahead where it is more important to know exactly what your next move is going to be and to smoothly make it than to make a lot of fast moves where you don't know exactly where you're going and might actually waste time. It seems like she has really good look ahead

@LighterFluidDrinker

9 ай бұрын

I think basically all “puzzling” hobbies have look ahead tbh

@OFFICIALLYBENPEARCE

9 ай бұрын

This guy thinks cubers invented strategy lool

@ashley_smith

9 ай бұрын

I used to do that when I did word searches in the 90s. My mom always wondered how I did em so fast lol I tried to explain how I circle one word slowly while allowing my eyes to scan the puzzle again for the next word. She thought I was making things up.

@caroleberreur9585

9 ай бұрын

Same with maths I have the feeling. You are supposed to visualise the end result and go from step to step… but me, I go wondering in all directions thinking maybe the solution will present itself 😮😅

@justsomeweirdperson

9 ай бұрын

thing in tetris, ty for the name

Never knew I could fear a person who does jigsaw puzzles

@HopefulDarkness

9 ай бұрын

Saw on a tricycle wants to say hi

I said it before and I'll say it again, she is the God of Puzzles, who is a bit bored and decided to do this competition for funsies

@ijlayugan4149

9 ай бұрын

I remember that SIGH she made after she took out the puzzle box from the bag (during the world championship singles)

@Johan.Molenberghs

9 ай бұрын

Seems like she's really enjoying the funzies... 😅

@j.4941

5 ай бұрын

@@ijlayugan4149*SIGH* why of all talents does THIS have to be mine? :-)

“The most interesting strategy is Kristin Thuv, a total crowd favourite. For the first fifteen minutes, she didn’t put a single piece together: she just looked at them. I thought she lost her touch. Then, she started putting pieces together.” - Charlie Kendall

@biosparkles9442

7 ай бұрын

she be solving the puzzle in her mind and then just executing the required steps

@stealthis

7 ай бұрын

​@@biosparkles9442true psychopath behavior

@aleksandra...

7 ай бұрын

​@@stealthis👎

@Phoenix.219

6 ай бұрын

​@@stealthisnope. Makes perfect sense. Some ppl are really good at visualisation. I thought everyone can visualize things and later on got to know that not everyone can visualize at same level. Some ppl are academically quite good but not that good at visualisation so it's not even intelligence related. I am decent at visualisation, some ppl are really good, my mom is better than me. Show her anything with some pattern(puzzle is similar in that sense), something completely new to her and she easily catches how it was made.

@chronischgeheilt

5 ай бұрын

Maybe she has photographic memory plus some Gift, Takes the "photo" and then Just calmly Puzzles away without searching for the pieces because she knows where they are and how they Look...

She shaved 20 minutes off because you fully sorted your pieces before started to assemble. She’s assembling while sorting! 🥰

@fluffg-nx7ns

2 ай бұрын

Yess you have a point

She is using only one hand, because using both hands would be unfair towards the other contestants 😳☝️ Thats at least my theory..

Most people stress over it not realizing that being uncomfortable is a pretty big factor in how fast you can go.

3-4 seconds per piece for her, 6-7 for you. The one hand is not the bottleneck but figuring out where things belong.

No way this was the first video that popped up when I opened KZread after JUST FINISHING THE EXACT SAME PUZZLE

I never thought I would ever hear or say the phrase “jigsaw competition”.

@jessicachungisreal

9 ай бұрын

It’s good you never thought of it because you never heard that phrase. That phrase is nowhere in the video. The video says “World jigsaw puzzle championship”

@Lilian040210

9 ай бұрын

The dominance instinct will make everything into a competition

@malfeasantamalgam

9 ай бұрын

I imagined more power tools

@benjaminsilvers5861

7 ай бұрын

@@jessicachungisreal But you got the gist of it didn’t you. 🖖

@asmrtpop2676

5 ай бұрын

Wanna play a game?

This is the most Norwegian way to excel at something. You look as though you aren't even trying, perform incredibly, and then don't even look excited about it

I'm looking at the unfinished puzzle that's been on my living room floor for MONTHS. 😭😅

@valeriep.8364

5 ай бұрын

I have one of those too.

@sanchisan6997

5 ай бұрын

@valeriep.8364 This video inspired me to try to do the puzzle a little every day. This is only my 4th puzzle, and I'm definitely in over my head 🙃! 😆 It's a 1000 piece "infinity puzzle" called 'Museum'. By a company that I can only assume is called "sure lox" because that is the only info I see on the box right now. What unfinished puzzle do you have, if you don't mind me asking?

@russellmz

5 ай бұрын

I am guessing you are using zero hands, which is slower than one or two hands?

@valeriep.8364

5 ай бұрын

@@russellmz you're funny!

@sanchisan6997

5 ай бұрын

@@russellmz 😂😂

She did that so fast! If she is second i want to see first place lol You can see she was trying to hold back a smile when she finished! 😊

@MartijnPennings

9 ай бұрын

I think 1st place was a Spanish guy called Alejandro and he's the complete opposite. Standing up, frantically putting pieces in with two hands at the same time.

@stealthis

7 ай бұрын

​@@MartijnPenningsI gotta find this now

Karen, I watched her on KZread. She picked up a piece, looked at it briefly, and put it in a pile, separating each piece. Watching her, I could not help but think she has an eidetic memory. So, when she looked at a piece, she could separate each piece and know where it went. What do you think?

It gives more focus and space. I've been doing puzzles since I was a kid and I felt myself getting more distracted when I used both my hands

Maybe she would be faster if she used two hands, or maybe her mind is so fast that it knows which pieces to pick so she only needs to use one hand.

@sianmilne4879

10 ай бұрын

I think it's the second, because she almost never picked up the wrong piece and put it back the entire competition!

@IQzminus2

10 ай бұрын

@@sianmilne4879 yes I agree. She didn’t do any trying loads and loads of pieces. It seemed like she solved what piece was needed in her brain first, and then picked up the piece needed and put it in place. Which I don’t know how you keep track of that many pieces. She either has some super cool system / strategy or a super impressive memory. No guessing of what colour or roughly what shape of piece it should be. Just picking up the right piece as needed. My guess would be that she is some calm super focus. And using one arm or two won’t make a big difference for her, except sitting in a way that lets her think the fastest and remain focused.

@DeathnoteBB

5 ай бұрын

@@IQzminus2I think she’s just autistic. We seem to be better at compartmentalizing big shapes into smaller pieces

The best part is where she compares her old time vs her new time and actually answers the question in the title.

@_ch1pset

5 ай бұрын

But, it was her second time solving the same puzzle. So, no not really. If it was her first time, it may not have been any faster solving with just one hand than with both.

She clearly has some kind of cybernetic Terminator arm covered in flesh. No human can move that quickly.

@catinabox3048

8 ай бұрын

Almost all humans can move like her. She's really not moving all that fast. She averages around a piece every four seconds. If you knew where all the pieces go, it's really not that insane movement-wise to put in a piece in four seconds. It's her thinking and mapping that's impressive, not her movement.

I love puzzles but it literally takes me a week or to finish a puzzle and I’ll work on it a few hours each day.

Now that I think about it, beyond opening the box and flipping over pieces at the beginning, I don’t think I ever actively use 2 hands when putting together a puzzle

Her name is Kristin Thuv and she’s from Bodø up north in Norway. Congratulations to Kristin! 🎉 Hilsen en Tromsøværing 😊

@kettle2293

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing her name ❤

She has some impressive pattern recognition skills.

This is my wife’s puzzling hero. She now mostly puzzles like this and has found good success with it.

I wish I was half as excited about anything as she is with Puzzles.

she hasnt even reached her final form

A few month ago I broke my elbow and I was on sick leave for 10 weeks. So had a lot of time and I did some puzzeling since you can do that with one hand. I felt quite annoyed that I was only able to use one hand.😂

I’m so patriotic; I saw the Norwegian flag and instantly felt proud.

@LucieCornelia

9 ай бұрын

Same

@johnhagen313

5 ай бұрын

The reaction was instant lol 😅

The community talks about the one hand technique. It is NOT the hand that matters, it is the BRAIN. She could slay puzzle competition using her feet.

@brendalg4

5 ай бұрын

I agree it's not the hand that matters, but there are many reasons why using your feet would be slower

I noticed that at the next competition she used both hands way more.

"im gonna try ❌🐀❌iIIiIittTt"

I think it’s just her being relaxed, since she kept a cool head she was able to do more than others. It’s her own technique

Am I the only person who didnt know jigsaw puzzles competitions were a thing.

But...was it faster than last time you did it?

That glimpse of a smile is essentially a Norwegian touchdown dance

Maybe while sorting, she didn't stack the pieces on top of each other, so that she could see all the pieces clearly at a glance?🤔

her "I'm gonna try it!" face is just fantastic

I almost wonder if that girl has a photographic memory, which would give her a slight edge in doing the puzzle since she didn't have to look at the picture on the box. Honestly, she also just seemed bored from doing the puzzle so i wonder if she intentionally trains herself for speed and then at competition time, just slows down for a break? IDK, there's a million possibilities and these are just some thoughts that i had that it might be.

@LL-wu5ui

10 ай бұрын

I doubt she was bored. That's probably just her facial expression.

@Mizumii25

10 ай бұрын

@LL-wu5ui probably. Was just what it felt like. I can't say much. Currently sitting at a Panda Express doing jigsaws on my phone while waiting for an appointment.

@georgewang2947

9 ай бұрын

@@LL-wu5ui resting bored face

@dominikaksiazek7177

5 ай бұрын

​@@LL-wu5ui​ that's the first thing that came to my mind. I have the same problem, people often think I'm bored/sad/angry because my facial expression looks like her and doesn't change much. There's much going on in her brain, her face just doesn't show it. She's not thinking about it because she's absorbed in assembling. I don't like it when people ask "why are you sad?" and I have to respond "I'm not, it's just my face" :| I don't express many emotions using my face but I understand it's an important part of communication so sometimes I have to remind myself to change my expression lol 😅 Some people feel uneasy and awkward when they can't read someone's face.

I love how excited op sounds.

I had the fattest crush on her this time last year, good to see she’s still amazing lol

There are puzzle competitions !!!!! Where was this when I was a kid

I was not aware that such tournaments exist

omg is this Amy from the Big Bang Theory

I didn't even know a puzzle championship existed.

As someone that plays classical piano (therefore I have to sightread a lot) it seems like she is using only one hand to use her other hemisphere to think about 2 or 3 steps ahead, (Obviously pianists don't have this privilege as we use both our hands and our foot, but we are good at compartmentalize and use the free space of the hemisphere that doesn't have the melody to read one marking ahead) it's a really interesting concept ypu should put it to practice!

The 20 minute is easy... you organized your pieces when she didn't.

She was just having fun and when she finished the puzzle suddenly remembered she was competing

Cool video, never knew jigsaw puzzling was a sport. I think you actually undersell the competitive puzzler’s achievement though. Solving a puzzle the second time around isn’t a small advantage, it’s an absolutely gigantic advantage.

Her being Norwegian is lore accurate

I did a 500 piece very simple puzzle and it took 4 hours. I'm inspired to learn your techniques and speed it up a little.

Quite puzzling.

I’ve been using that technique when doing my work for years… it shaves off lots of time… especially in my head. Time just flies when you’re bored.

*Me looking at this knowing full well I just spend a whole day on 500 pieces puzzle*

@betne5523

7 ай бұрын

In my defense it was the Ravensburger Elephant family puzzle wich was just a sea of grey

Idk how she can visualize the exact slot where a piece should be placed..... She never has an hesitation. She has a special power. Idk if it's due to a lifetime's hard practice, or if she is specially gifted (spatial visualization) but, anyway, I admire her so much and at the same time it's quite scary how good she is..... It's like she automatically kill the competition everywhere she plays (except if there's Alejandro playing too haha).....

She waits until she is off stream then goes full super speed wildwoman. Then when the camera is heading her way again... she adopts the famous 'meh' pose once again.

To me it looks more clean, i mean of i use two hands i tend to think i need to be fast but using one hand result in more chill and precise placement of the puzzles and having enough room to see where all pieces fit

I've never heard of a jigsaw competition in my life ❤❤

Amazing video! But I'm sorry, the world jigsaw championships??

She is like that because she only using 10% of her full strength. 😂

I think she didn't grouping the puzzles first. It can save up plenty of time.

This is such an amazing channel 🎉

slow is smooth, smooth is fast

I did one jigsaw puzzle. One. And now I’m getting recommended jigsaw puzzle videos on KZread the same day I did that jigsaw… obviously it’s not hand speed that counts, it’s memory and visual processing that’s the bottleneck.

It has nothing to do with the hand. It's the eyes how fast they find a piece and the brain which can stuck the pieces together. I see it when my mom tried to construct a special Lego car with my son, who mixed all his Legos together. She never found the pieces. So she called me (autistic and ADHD) and I found every piece in 5mns in this all mixed up pile which were in the construction book my son chose.

Thanks!

With her 2 hands the puzzle would be over in 10 minutes 😅

I think maybe I should try speedsolving this again. I haven't done it since I bought it last year.

Slow is smooth smooth is fast Exemplified.

This is how I do every puzzle. 😂

I mean, you can only think about one thing at a time kinda so it makes sense because with both hands you’re picking up two pieces placing them down but you have to individually know which two pieces are picking up where you’re putting them down and it doesn’t save much timecompared to

He's the main protag of jigsaw anime

Ey nice! A fellow Norwegian

You thinking having already done the puzzle before only gives you a "little bit" of an advantage is what's crazy. What time did you get on your first go

As I am about to enter into a Speed puzzle competition just for fun 53 minutes seems like an impossibly short time for using one hand. Lol

Easier to focus on one hand and to organize the pieces around it

where can i watch the her complete solving video? is it available? like theres a video of the whole jigsaw puzzle championship...is this part available in it?

I didn't even know there is a championship of puzzle 😮

My guess is that she's already solving it half in her head. She's just placing it. I mean, not over and over looking each piece.

I did not know this was even a thing. Cool.

I hope to be that good one day even if I don't plan on competing.

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I like doing it. It tricks your brain that you are relaxed 'cuz you know what goes where which makes the brain think harder to act like it knows the puzzle. That's what i believe. I do this for other things.

Did not know this was another field Norway was doing great at

Most of the time I also puzzle with only one hand. But I puzzle a lot, so I'll lounge around and need one hand to hold my head xD I love my 3000 piece puzzles, but I should try measuring my time with a 1000 piece one or with 500, idk. Would be interesting. Won't buy the same puzzle as shown even tho I would be very curious about my time. I puzzle fast and slow at the same time. I can get stuck super bad, but sometimes I'm in the zone xD

My smart ass thought it was 57 seconds 😑

Oopooooo... Ravensburger awesome the BEST puzzles. I actually have a seven thousand piece of one of their puzzles that I'm setting up in my basement and inviting all but one of my friends to join us. The one friend who is not invited always tries to steal one piece for a 'souvenir'

She might be faster with two hands in theory, But in practice could end up making more mistakes if she tried that due to the extra control that goes into coordinating the second hand.

So cool!

Yeah, moving the pieces is far from the bottleneck, right? Mentally scanning and categorising/ locating the pieces must be the main work. At a guess, one handed style evolved because she's putting the focus on looking at pieces. A second hand gets in the way of that.

It's not a technique, she is just winning the idgf war

"I'm gonna tr🚪it..."

I use one arm too. I find using both arms interferes with my eye scanning . Two arms crossing and picking pieces up confuses me

She even looks kinda bored while puzzeling with one hand sustaining her head, like she is thinking: "i thought i would face a challange here, but eh, whatever" xD

One time I completed a 1000 piece in 3 hours I love puzzles

How do you know if the person has never done the puzzle before and if so does that mean they're not allowed to use that puzzle at a competition because of the advantage? Could someone know what puzzle would be used a head of time and practice it? Just some thoughts as a puzzle hobbyist

I don't think the hands are the bottleneck in the system. Unless someone comes along who can efficiently place two pieces at the same time.

I don't know if that was a tactic lol

omg i want to go to this competition

Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast - U.S. Navy S E.A.L.s phrase

Me = 17 hours 😂

I'm gonna tryy iiiiit huuuh 😌