Complete a 500-piece puzzle.

“I chose a 500-piece puzzle because I thought it would be challenging without being as overwhelming as a 1000-piece puzzle. I got started on it the following evening, putting together the edge pieces on our large, round coffee table. That was a mistake. Neither leaning over the table or sitting on the floor were comfortable for working on the puzzle, so last night I moved what I had assembled over to my sewing table. (A small cutting mat helped me move it in sections.)”

“With no picture for reference, this 500 piece puzzle took me 5 days to complete (for comparison a 1000 piece puzzle I can usually finish in 2-3 days)! I don’t know why this didn’t frustrate me, but I was content to work on this puzzle and spend more time looking for pieces than actually assembling.”

“I selected Springbok's 500-piece round puzzle called Crafty Colors for my very first attempt at speed puzzling. [...] Almost without exception, speed puzzlers start by sorting the pieces. So that's what I did. It took me 17 minutes and 55 seconds to go from what you see above to what you see below. Not only is that a painfully slow sorting time, but I didn't sort intelligently.”