Solitaire collection events cheating

Not sure if you saw my clarification post, but the challenge in question was a FreeCell challenge which has 20 games, not 30.  I agree with you that a 30 game challenge under 30 minutes would be incredibly unlikely.  I don't believe that the timer starts until the first card is moved, at least in FreeCell.  Not sure if that is true of all the games.

I did have one challenge where I finished second and PaltryAmoeba was first.  His/her time was about 30+ minutes faster than mine. 

In the challenge yesterday, I came in first in my group for a 30 game event in a time of 1:49:30.  I was assuming that I would not be in the top 10 because because the games were quite hard for me.  The Expert Tripeaks was very difficult.  This morning when I saw the final scores for my group, there were only 5 people of the 100 who solved all the games.  So even with the various challenges, there are some that are easier and some that are harder.  So what were the top times overall for that challenge?  The first place time for the top 100 was a 25:58

So it looks like MS has finally stopped showing impossible time for those on Top 100 whose times vary from 22' to 55' as on Sept 22.

If there were AI cheating before now we all hope there's no more. We all want to be ranked but amongst humans.

Hi,

A few points:

To complete 30 games in under 30 minutes would seem incredible.

If as you say that you look at the deck to see where the aces are, would put on perhaps 15 seconds leaving you 45 seconds to complete the game.

I think that the timer starts when you push play.

Yet again the game finishing on the 23 Sept had the top 100 all having 1,2,3, and all completing in 25 to 50 minutes. One of the top 3 is called PaltryAmoeba, very fitting!

To clarify, the FreeCell event I spoke about had 20 challenges, not 30.  So the time of 29:57 came to an average of about 1 1/2 minutes for each challenge.  For events that have 30 challenges, my best time I can recall was a bit under 60 minutes.

I am glad that someone who completed 30 challenges, the FreeCell, in under 30 minutes is joining the conversation.  I have been playing freecell and other card games online since 1988.  Shoot back then we beta'd programs and even took Microsoft to court about providing them with all the needs to create a perfect Office Administrator / Secretary / Managerial / Accounting program suite and then they stopped it on us.  The courts however then created Opensource and Apache has been keeping up with all the free open to the public programs since then.  I know how to look at freecell and tell where the aces are, if there are clusters of a central number stuck up in a few rows.  Thank you for your advice.