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Best times:
Easy - :54
Medium - 1:23
Hard - 1:46
Extreme - 2:23
Top 10 in each category are maybe 10%-20% slower.
The majority of the time taken per puzzle is just in filling in the squares, not in computing the solution, since I only use my cell phone to play, and it is common to hit the wrong number on the first try where I have to erase then refill with the correct number. Every once in a while a Med or a Hard could take 5 min, but then I will break 3 min on back to back extremes, so for my style of solving the levels are maybe a little imbalanced and skew easier than other sudoku sites. I recognize there are many people better than me at this game, so I figured the leader boards had a handful of cheats but were for the most part legitimate. If I spend a few hours on a Sunday doing puzzles I improve, so if I were to focus more on it and use a faster entry method or bigger device maybe I could improve by 20% or so, but I don't care as much about the times as I do about the challenge and the fun, where every puzzle is different but the same... So I am going to keep playing on my phone and not worrying about the Leader boards and who's cheating or not cheating.

My best time on Easy is :54, and my top 10 range is :54-1:05. I would consider myself more advanced, and I mostly just stick to the hard level puzzles, where my top 10 ranges from 1:46-2:04. I figured the top handful of fastest times were cheats, but I figured if I was hitting sub 1 minute on Easy, that at least some of them are valid in that range by the fact that I know there are plenty of people better than me at Sudoku. It is one of the funnest games for me, and one of the only games I will even play on my phone. I would say don't be discouraged by the comparison to other people, that doesn't ever make anyone happy because someone is always better. Just compare yourself to yourself from yesterday, that's the only game you can actually win.