jigsaw puzzles

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I was wondering if being unusually good at jigsaw puzzles an Aspie thing? I can sit down and complete a 1,000 piece puzzle in a few hours. I don't even do them a lot, so I wouldn't attribute it to practice. It just comes very naturally to me. The only problem comes when the puzzle pieces are all the same color, like the sky for instance. Then, it takes me what seems like forever to finish.

Anyone else like this, and have this issue with monochrome pieces?

i'm poor at jigsaw puzzles, but good at word puzzles like crosswords.

I haven't done jigsaw puzzles for a while but I can do them up to 1500 pieces.

I have no idea if it's an aspie thing, but I'm really good at jigsaw puzzles too. It depends on the puzzle and if I've done it before, but I can do 1000 piece puzzles in a few hours too. Monochrome pieces do take me longer, but they don't slow me down significantly unless maybe there're half the puzzle . I think maybe it's because there are less visual clues. When this happens I just end up looking for the exact shape of the piece instead of the color.

I've done puzzle so many times that I sometimes play game with myself to make it more challenging. I've done puzzles upside-down so that only the cardboard is showing, or I pick a random piece out of the box and put it where I would probably end up, even when it's not connected to another piece out on the floor. I don't really like doing puzzles by laying out all the pieces first. I just sift through the box until I find the piece that I'm looking for, which is a lot faster for me.

I used to love doing jigsaw puzzles. I figured I was bad with monochrome pieces because I am colorblind.

I am not unusually good at them but I do love them.

I am lousy with jigsaw puzzles. I'm not good at them and I lack the patience. I have never done better than about 25 pieces. Seriously.

Depending on how many pieces there are, it takes me a while to do it because I have to separate the pieces, and look for a piece. I haven't done a jigsaw in a while. I used to buy them at yard sales or second hand stores and put them together and then get rid of them. I don't look at the box much either as I work on them. I only look at the picture if I want to see where a part of the picture goes after putting that part of the puzzle together so I know where to connect it to and where to put it. I used to do them on shockwave until they changed it to paid membership and made it limited to how many free jigsaws you can do. I have been known to be good at them though because of my visual. It's even in my medical records from my early years and I don't know what my parents did with those.

Ya I'm really good at jigsaw puzzles. My first son is the same. I'm not sure if it's because I'm aspie or not. When I watch other people do it they seem to move like snails. SIL once borrowed a 500 pcs puzzle and told me 3 days later excitedly that she finished it. My standard puzzle is 1000 pieces and I do it in one evening. I'm good at other games that require pattern matching as well.

its a slightly common trait to the spectrum in general not just AS.
one girl who was almost about to move in here [a specialist care home] has mild classic autism and she was able to sit and do jigsaws in super fast time its a big interest of hers.

however am not able to do them have never even been able to do kids ones,but put this down to screwy visual processing as well as being on the intelectual disability spectrum.

I love jigsaws and find them easy, I don't understand why there aren't more 1,500 piece or more ones. I once did a monochrome one and it did take a while but I managed to finish it

Oh god, no! I hated jigsaw puzzles as a kid. I was fine with the fact that not all pieces fit; that was the point of a puzzle. But I was really annoyed, not to mention angered, by that "so close, yet so far away" factor, where two pieces are just a millimeter off from fitting together. Forcing them in didn't work. So I took an what I thought was an ingenious measure: scissors! If two pieces were almost fitting together, I'd just trim the "male" piece by a millimeter or so, just enough to make it fit. I ruined two puzzles this way, before my parents stopped buying them. I hate jigsaw puzzles to this day, just because their pieces are "so close, yet so far away".