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[Brafarality]

I was into Sudoku's for awhile, and they were fun, but they got almost too repetitious (and easy) after awhile.

It took me about a week to get to the point where I could solve 'Supreme' sudoku puzzles without pencilling in possible values, just penning in the correct digits as they are deduced, which I understand is considered a more challenging solving style.
(note- pencil and pen used metaphorically here! I play online)
[I think if you subscribe to most online sites, you can access the final level, but the master-for-free levels generally suffice]


Did this one about 30 minutes (maybe less...definitely not more) in between doing mindless administrative tasks for my friend's law practice, which actually helps because mindless tasking occupies otherwise distracting faculties freeing up more powerful powers for problem solving:

Sudoku Puzzle: Try It Out

When you say 'easy', do you mean solving difficult puzzles in this restricted fashion?
If so, then I am impressed, because I impress myself sometimes!

Appropriate Princess Leia reply to me impressing myself: "That doesn't sound so hard"

Edited by paulthekind, 20 June 2008 - 06:04 AM.

[VictorBjoerk]

Learn a new language? A good task for the brain..........

[orangish]

If I were looking to integrate my left and right sides of my brain, what would be a good instrument to take up? I noticed that a key attention problem I have is attending to multiple things at once, not multitasking, but processing various components of a single task. I wanted to try my hand at music because I'd have to work independently with my two hands. Although I've played violin and piano in the past, my playing has been regrettably from rote and whatever was learned in my peak days has vanished mostly from my memory. Plus, as I'm getting older, these two instruments seem to have a tendency to be mostly isolatory if one can't play well enough to be in an ensemble.

[kzzch]

http://cognitivefun.net/

Specifically the Dual n-back test, a good description of which can be found in the Wired article.

http://www.wired.com.../smart_software

There's also Super Memo

http://www.supermemo.com/