--- In [email protected], "chdvl" <w.a.de.vries@h...> wrote:
want to try to clarify that conversation.
Suyono gave me a compliment of being a very good solver. However, I
do not consider myself to be a very good solver, at least not compared
to a number of others. I do not even consider myself to be a GHS
Hunter. Last year I was more active with LaserTank. (This year I am
more active with true Sokoban. But eventually I will get back into
LaserTank.) I was in the number 1 position of the LaserTank Sokoban
"top 20" list for a number of months and position 7 in the Challenge
II list. But I felt guilty for being listed so high. I was there
because of quantity, not quality. I would look at all of the levels
that were unrated for each month and try to solve them. I do not have
the creativity or patience that the true "very good solvers" have.
Therefore, if I could not solve a level in a single computer session,
I usually moved on. This means that most of what I solved would
eventually be rated "Easy" (or "Kids"). I would try to get these
solved levels submitted quickly so that the true "very good solvers"
could skip them and concentrate on the levels that would eventually be
rated medium, hard, or deadly.
But there tended to be fewer of these other levels. So I was trying
to find a way to give the recognition that these true "very good
solvers" so justly deserved. My idea was to have a separate list that
did not include the "Easy" and "Kids" levels. (It was slightly more
complicated than this, in order to try to prevent cheating. But this
was the basic idea.)
Although Suyono's list is not the same (and so there might be some
missing very good solvers), it is an excellent representation. These
were many of the names I remember seeing on levels where I was
especially amazed at seeing better solutions. Congratulations to all
of you: aj, Al + AL, Amad, ccw, I&B, Ihab, Iron, jojo, masa, Mau.
tere, Tina, VVI
You are great examples of truly, very good solvers!
> Does he/she want a list of the "elite"?I believe Suyono's post comes from an email conversation we had. I
want to try to clarify that conversation.
Suyono gave me a compliment of being a very good solver. However, I
do not consider myself to be a very good solver, at least not compared
to a number of others. I do not even consider myself to be a GHS
Hunter. Last year I was more active with LaserTank. (This year I am
more active with true Sokoban. But eventually I will get back into
LaserTank.) I was in the number 1 position of the LaserTank Sokoban
"top 20" list for a number of months and position 7 in the Challenge
II list. But I felt guilty for being listed so high. I was there
because of quantity, not quality. I would look at all of the levels
that were unrated for each month and try to solve them. I do not have
the creativity or patience that the true "very good solvers" have.
Therefore, if I could not solve a level in a single computer session,
I usually moved on. This means that most of what I solved would
eventually be rated "Easy" (or "Kids"). I would try to get these
solved levels submitted quickly so that the true "very good solvers"
could skip them and concentrate on the levels that would eventually be
rated medium, hard, or deadly.
But there tended to be fewer of these other levels. So I was trying
to find a way to give the recognition that these true "very good
solvers" so justly deserved. My idea was to have a separate list that
did not include the "Easy" and "Kids" levels. (It was slightly more
complicated than this, in order to try to prevent cheating. But this
was the basic idea.)
Although Suyono's list is not the same (and so there might be some
missing very good solvers), it is an excellent representation. These
were many of the names I remember seeing on levels where I was
especially amazed at seeing better solutions. Congratulations to all
of you: aj, Al + AL, Amad, ccw, I&B, Ihab, Iron, jojo, masa, Mau.
tere, Tina, VVI
You are great examples of truly, very good solvers!