Logic Game Timing Compilation
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:24 am
When I was learning logic games, I searched briefly for a source that gave times for individual games in order to gauge whether I was on the right track or not. My reasoning was that since difficulty can vary so much from game to game, I wasn't satisfied with the knowledge that I finished a game in under 8 minutes if I thought it might possibly be done in 5 (but wasn't sure). I was also not sure when to be seriously worried that a game took 12-15 minutes...was it a particularly difficult game or was this revealing some hideous flaw in my games approach? I didn't personally find such a source, so I'm starting one. If there is already a thread like this, could someone point me to it? I did a half-hearted forum search and didn't really see anything. I'm intending this mainly to be a resource for someone who has a solid grasp of the fundamental concepts of logic games and is looking to fine tune their timing.
This thread includes times for individual games that a competent test taker could expect to achieve. I don't claim to be a logic games wizard, but I'm proficient enough that when I took the most recent 10 practices tests under timed conditions, I got -0 on 8/10 of the sections. Because I didn't keep track of times for individual games as I was doing them for the first time, the times I'll list are my second time doing them at least a month after taking them the first time. I don't think this had a significant impact on the times listed for most games. My approach was exactly the same as when I took it the first time (ex. for "could be true" questions I didn't remember the answers well enough to just go to the answer I knew to be true, diagram that hypothetical, and move on), and I didn't try to go any faster than I would in a real test situation. There are maybe 1 or 2 games that tripped me up a bit the first time (dinosaurs, etc.) that may have taken a couple minutes longer the first time through. I typically have 5-10 minutes after I finish my last game to review, so the total time represented below seems about right. I hope others that have this sort of data will add their times so we can have a more representative sampling of times.
Format- PT: game 1 time, game 2 time, game 3 time, game 4 time--total time (these times do not include bubbling, which typically takes about a minute).
PT54: 4:54, 8:10, 7:45, 9:27-- 30:16
PT55: 6:57, 6:48, 6:19, 11:13-- 31:17
PT56: 4:58, 5:21, 4:40, 11:42-- 26:31
PT57: 2:47, 7:35, 10:52, 9:26-- 30:40
PT58: 6:25, 5:50, 4:35, 8:45-- 25:35 (I forgot a rule in game 1 so it could probably be done a minute or two faster)
PT59: 4:57, 5:30, 9:35, 7:40-- 27:42
PT60: 5:20, 4:10, 4:04, 9:40-- 23:14
PT61: 4:35, 5:50, X, 10:22-- ?? I used the third game as warm up before I went into my test and did not time it.
I'll try to update this periodically.
This thread includes times for individual games that a competent test taker could expect to achieve. I don't claim to be a logic games wizard, but I'm proficient enough that when I took the most recent 10 practices tests under timed conditions, I got -0 on 8/10 of the sections. Because I didn't keep track of times for individual games as I was doing them for the first time, the times I'll list are my second time doing them at least a month after taking them the first time. I don't think this had a significant impact on the times listed for most games. My approach was exactly the same as when I took it the first time (ex. for "could be true" questions I didn't remember the answers well enough to just go to the answer I knew to be true, diagram that hypothetical, and move on), and I didn't try to go any faster than I would in a real test situation. There are maybe 1 or 2 games that tripped me up a bit the first time (dinosaurs, etc.) that may have taken a couple minutes longer the first time through. I typically have 5-10 minutes after I finish my last game to review, so the total time represented below seems about right. I hope others that have this sort of data will add their times so we can have a more representative sampling of times.
Format- PT: game 1 time, game 2 time, game 3 time, game 4 time--total time (these times do not include bubbling, which typically takes about a minute).
PT54: 4:54, 8:10, 7:45, 9:27-- 30:16
PT55: 6:57, 6:48, 6:19, 11:13-- 31:17
PT56: 4:58, 5:21, 4:40, 11:42-- 26:31
PT57: 2:47, 7:35, 10:52, 9:26-- 30:40
PT58: 6:25, 5:50, 4:35, 8:45-- 25:35 (I forgot a rule in game 1 so it could probably be done a minute or two faster)
PT59: 4:57, 5:30, 9:35, 7:40-- 27:42
PT60: 5:20, 4:10, 4:04, 9:40-- 23:14
PT61: 4:35, 5:50, X, 10:22-- ?? I used the third game as warm up before I went into my test and did not time it.
I'll try to update this periodically.