40x40 sliding puzzle solve

[soup]

Fellow forum members: I have solved the 40x40puzzle (or 1599puzzle), which once again lands me the UWR for the largest sliding NxN sliding puzzle ever solved.

Here is the puzzle, solved.

I have also recorded the entirety of the attempt and will upload it to the 'tubes.

This puzzle took 14 hours, 34 minutes, and 38.577 seconds to solve (in real time). However, I took some breaks in the process, so the amount of time I spent solving this puzzle (not counting any breaks taken) is roughly 11.5 ~ 12 hours.

 

[BurntTheCube]

Dat upload time.

 

[soup]

Dat upload time.

Only about 70 minutes. The processing time is going to be the rough part.

 

[Adrian0]

Wow. I can't believe people can spend hours on a single puzzle. Nice job.

 

[PeelingStickers]

inb4 ben

 

[Renslay]

Congrats!

I have a feeling that a few people (including you?) got a motivation for breaking this record soon...

 

[soup]

inb4 ben

Yeah, I'm waiting for Ben to finish his solve.. it should be roughly twice as fast as mine.

Here we go

There's the first 90% of the solve, or about 11 or so hours of footage.

 

[Bindedsa]

Did you just scan for the piece you were looking for or did you find them some other way?

 

[ben1996123]

Did you just scan for the piece you were looking for or did you find them some other way?

clearing method

okso basically find all the pieces from 1-200 then move them up wifout solving them, then solve them so its easier to fiend the right piece (only haf to look at a few rows insted of all 40)

 

[TDM]

Would've been easier to use Live Rows instead of Multi Rows.

 

[ben1996123]

Would've been easier to use Live Rows instead of Multi Rows.

live schemes are cheating and there really laggy anyway

 

[soup]

Well, folks, looks like lolben has taken the record. He has solved the 50x50 or 2499puzzle: Link is here

9 hours, 35 minutes, 5.92 seconds to solve the puzzle, using 287692 moves.