i didn't use the trick, or read what it was until after i tried for myself. it took me about 7 seconds at a conservative overestimate...
then again, i did outperform my entire national cohort at school in almost every subject by a wide margin... an outlier.
the trick however is very clever, but it wont work in more complicated scenarios where attention to detail matters.
EDIT: after doing the first one near the top i tried the rest. with a bit of warm up its very fast. no tricks needed. maybe a relic of playing these games when younger and having a "once in a generation" level of learning power coupled with training it when very young when learning speed is multiplied by a huge scale factor. i had to zoom the last one, but the other two were incredibly fast, close to immediate. sub second.
EDIT2: the warm up was doing the first image once after reading the first few sentences.
then again, i did outperform my entire national cohort at school in almost every subject by a wide margin... an outlier.
the trick however is very clever, but it wont work in more complicated scenarios where attention to detail matters.
EDIT: after doing the first one near the top i tried the rest. with a bit of warm up its very fast. no tricks needed. maybe a relic of playing these games when younger and having a "once in a generation" level of learning power coupled with training it when very young when learning speed is multiplied by a huge scale factor. i had to zoom the last one, but the other two were incredibly fast, close to immediate. sub second.
EDIT2: the warm up was doing the first image once after reading the first few sentences.
EDIT3: this is not a superpower.