Karen Kavett (Karen Puzzles)

I don't know the exact stats, but yeah, it's mostly women who want to get into it.

But there are some very fast men out there as well.

For two years in a row, Alejandro from Spain was the world champion.

Yeah.

So speed puzzling, the modern events really started in Spain.

They have a huge speed puzzling scene out there.

There's a lot of really fast people in Spain.

And then there are plenty of other countries where they have, you know, a handful of speed

you know, the top people in the world.

Kristin Tuve from Norway, she won in 2024.

And then Veronica from Poland just won last year in 2025.

And this is the world championship.

Poland has recently kind of, you know, debuted a lot of really, really fast puzzlers.

That's my family.

I mean, I've made a lot of Australian friends.

I'm sure there are fast people from New Zealand.

I'm trying to think.

I can't think of them offhand, but I'm sure as soon as I leave, I'll be like, oh yeah, so-and-so.

Yeah, I mean, it's just doing a lot of puzzles of all different types of images, like photos, illustrations, because you don't know what you're going to get in the event.

Also, you'll want to get together with your pair and your team and do some pairs practice and teams practice so that all of you guys can work together well.