Sorting or Raking Pieces The definition of a Dissectologist is a person who enjoys jigsaw puzzle assembly. And the ‘assembly’ is the most favourite part - the sorting, not so much. That brings us to our topic of discussion here. I have heard puzzlers say they ‘hate’ sorting - that’s unfortunate because it brings negativity to the puzzling experience. Some just dislike it, while others tolerate it. Some tend to do extreme sorting and some manage to assemble 3 to 4000 piece puzzles merely by raking their hands through ALL those pieces. Which one are you? A sorter or a raker? I used to be a ‘raker’ and now for the life of me I can’t even imagine not sorting all the pieces. I must have spent endless hours raking through the box looking for pieces. My Hubby would just look at me in despair and say, “why don’t you just lay them all out so you can see them much easier and pick out the ones you need?”. I soon started to lean towards that way as he was occasionally joining me to assemble a puzzle. And I wanted him to keep joining me so I felt if I laid the pieces out for him he would not lose interest in doing puzzles with me. Even though he was not very good at doing them - it was his company I enjoyed. But that also got me addicted to doing extensive sorting. Now I sort 4000+ pieces according to colours/shades and lay them onto the white foam boards. Each foam board takes an average of 500 pieces so that also gives me a gage as to how many pieces I have left to assemble on a given puzzle. I am not a fast puzzler either. I can do an average of 100 pieces per hour IF the image it not complex. My fastest speed on a 1000 piece puzzle is about 6 hours on the Brand Cloudberries, titled Pixels and its size is (approx.) 27" x 19". Even with all my years of puzzling I have never really increased in speed, per say in the time it takes to do the actual assembly. I’ve gotten faster at sorting though ;)
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