Thank you for posting these puzzles. I really enjoy them.
Curious, when you post the times for “good”, “excellent”, “superior”, are those gauges yours or the Gazette’s?
Some of my times are way out of whack; I get some of the “hard ones” in the “superior” range, yet some of the “easy ones” take me a bit longer.
Good question. My routine is that I get up, and usually do the daily Cryptoquote in the Arkansas Gazette myself,
and based on my time I’ll post the day’s times.
It’s funny, somedays, I’m stumped and I’ll put the time out there as 10 minutes is good etc. and there’s always a few people who found the CG easy.
I would say generally speaking any time under 2 minutes is excellent, and 1 minute would be what everyone should strive for.