Karen Kavett (Karen Puzzles)

So I'm Karen.

Online, I go by Karen Puzzles, and I have a YouTube channel all about jigsaw puzzles and speed puzzling.

Yeah, I mean, we were doing puzzles as far back as I can remember.

We have home videos of like little kids puzzles and photos.

And I remember crawling around while my mom was doing puzzles.

So we always had them around.

I was the one that really took to it the most.

My sister and I growing up, we would do them together.

And then eventually as I hit kind of middle school and beyond, I started doing them just on my own.

Right.

I mean, it's not so much that they're lagging.

I think I was maybe around like eight, nine or ten, somewhere in that age, where I decided to try to do a thousand piece puzzle on my own in one day.

It was the first time I had ever tried to do that.

And I did it.

It took me eight hours, which obviously is a lot longer than it would take me today.

But yeah.

And then after that, I just, you know, never really stopped.

I mean, a lot of it is just kind of muscle memory for your brain, I think.

It's a lot of...

picturing what you're looking for and then being able to recognize that and you know find it and put it in place and also being able to look at an image break it down into the components to know where to start and where to go from there and also just patience I guess yeah do you have techniques like are you sorting by colors and doing edges first or you're just you're past that at this