how simon anthony solves a sudoku

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Holly McFarland

2 жыл бұрын

a little bit of poking fun at my favourite sudoku-solving youtube channel, cracking the cryptic. with love 💙

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@ilankaplan2428 2 жыл бұрын

This is the most niche meme I've ever seen and it made me laugh so hard

@85TITZ Жыл бұрын

EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY

@Asterism_Desmos 11 ай бұрын

I was wondering how many people will get this lol

@jestfullgremblim8002 9 ай бұрын

@@Asterism_Desmosif this was recomended to them, they probably watch Cracking the Cryptic

@nezzled 8 ай бұрын

I've never even heard of that person until now but I immediately got one of their videos recommended to me after this one@@jestfullgremblim8002

@Schwuuuuup 7 ай бұрын

This comment alone has well over a thousand upvotes... I wouldn't have guessed this niche was that big

@MacroAggressor Жыл бұрын

Idk why everyone's calling this a niche meme... doesn't everyone spend hours at a time watching someone else complete a Sudoku?

@hbk6917 Жыл бұрын

its because whenever simon removes a singular notation, he would usually press a lot of different keys before actually removing the intended number which usually takes one button only to remove it. It is something regular fans notice but its not really something worth pointing out because it is just a habit of his therefore making it niche since an average person wouldn’t dare meme about this but this man did it.

@kemokidding Жыл бұрын

@@hbk6917 r/whoosh

@MisterAppleEsq Жыл бұрын

@@kemokidding please explain in a minimum of 500 characters why this is a woosh

@SjorsHoukes Жыл бұрын

@@hbk6917 It does not just take 1 button press - Simon is switching input tools when he does this. It would be niche if only a small amount of people would get it - but since many do, it's not very niche. Also: "this man" called holly? I think they are a trans woman, looking at their profile pic.

@AhsimNreiziev Жыл бұрын

I don't know if everyone _does_ , but certainly everyone _should_ .

@specialkalberta Жыл бұрын

It's amazing how consistently Simon will type the wrong number and then retype the correct number.

@RichAFCW Жыл бұрын

It's always the number 1 below as well!

@awebmate Жыл бұрын

It is just as amazing how consistently Simon types a number, that could be wrong, but turns out to be right anyway.

@J3ff_K1ng Жыл бұрын

You have to add Simon saying well that's a 4 and that's a 5 that's a 3 and therefore that's a 4 and ah good gracious me look at this cell aww this is beautiful this cell can only be a 1 due to this thermo and this 1 in box 3

@gilleslesire4983 Жыл бұрын

B E A UTIFUL

@ragingchicken7443 Жыл бұрын

This was ludicrously accurate, and i loved it.

@EchoMirage72 Жыл бұрын

OH BOBBINS

@nicolascortes6951 Жыл бұрын

I read it with Simon's voice in my head, Beautiful

@shpinak Жыл бұрын

because of SECRET!

@nadines.1107 2 жыл бұрын

My heart always stops when he types in the wrong number first... wrong key, blindly typing, then corrects immediately but i always fear he wont realize.

@tspawn35 Жыл бұрын

That man can see things in a puzzle I never will. However, He will miss the most obvious things sometimes only to point out something super hidden.

@ulkgb Жыл бұрын

@@tspawn35 I still feel that is intentional. He leaves the low hanging fruit so we can feel good.

@nickthompson1812 Жыл бұрын

@@ulkgb hahaha, you’ve cracked the cryptic solves of Simon! He does it to get us engaged in the comment sections ;)

@frederf3227 Жыл бұрын

Dude's got a 90% wrong key rate. How?

Жыл бұрын

He did make that mistake recently. Caught it in a few minutes, though, but still...

@nedb147 Жыл бұрын

I so hope he’s seen this, absolutely brilliant

@undergroundmonorail Жыл бұрын

At least one of them has, i tweeted it at the ctc account and they liked it

@twelvetenth8580 Жыл бұрын

But isn't he supposed to be the man working on both keyboards, the camera holder and the uploader of the video?

@later_babes Жыл бұрын

when it can’t be a 9 due to sudoku and he cleaned up his notes but there’s still a rogue 9 in the column notes

@AhsimNreiziev Жыл бұрын

Well, to be fair...... It is outrageous to make Simon do Sudoku in a Sudoku puzzle. But yes, I do find myself shouting "Scanning, Simon! *_SCANNING!_* " at the screen.

@paulmaglio9254 Жыл бұрын

I have no idea why it took a full year for this to pop up on my feed, but hilariously accurate video - great job.

@undergroundmonorail Жыл бұрын

about 15,000 of the 16,000ish views were in the last month or so

@doge8825 9 ай бұрын

@@undergroundmonorailyou having another algorithm boost? This just popped up into my feed

@undergroundmonorail 9 ай бұрын

@@doge8825 i guess i'm getting #bleesed again lmao

@rebmcr Ай бұрын

@@undergroundmonorail 👀

@navster100 Ай бұрын

Took 2 years for me

@j.r.qwertz Жыл бұрын

Bobbins! I'm totally discombobulated. Good grief! And Maverick flies past my window again...

@MeriaDuck Ай бұрын

🤣 If I ever create a youtube channel, my mavericks are fewer but louder; there's a military airfield nearby and those guys fly low, fast and are loud.

@logiclrd Жыл бұрын

Haha :-) The real answer is that the custom software they had made has 4 modes of input: solution digit, corner marks, centre marks and colour. You can enter corner marks directly with Shift+digit and centre marks directly with Ctrl+digit, but you can also switch modes so that you don't need Shift or Ctrl by pressing the spacebar. Simon hasn't picked up the Shift and Ctrl shortcuts, so he cycles through the modes by pressing space repeatedly for every new kind of input. Result: spacebar sound KACHUNK-KACHUNK-KACHUNK. And if he overshoots by mistake, then he has to press space another 3 times to cycle around. :-P

@AndaraBledin 11 ай бұрын

Using the Shift shortcut and Numpad to enter digits doesn't actually work, because Shift+NumPad is the same as turning NumLock off. As a result, if you use the NumPad numbers, you are forced to use Space to cycle modes instead of just using the shortcut for Corner digits.

@TheYortle 10 ай бұрын

I just use z, x, and c

@kimikanna_live 9 ай бұрын

I've always wondered what kind of Pentagon he is hacking. Finally i got the explanation. Thank you!

@MeriaDuck Ай бұрын

ah so the software does support these shortcuts, only the brain of poor Simon is hard wired to the spacebar

@UnwovenSleeve Жыл бұрын

The joke was already sold from the thumbnail, the first clip really solidifies it, and the fucking end clip just brings it home. What an amazing meme

@nagualdesign 11 ай бұрын

Potty mouth. Oh bobbins!

@jerayneous Жыл бұрын

We all thought it, but none of us had the courage to make a video about it 🙏😭

@sKlush 8 ай бұрын

this is so funny and I have literally no one that I can show this to

@13LuCkYjOhNnY Жыл бұрын

BRO I WISH MORE PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THIS MEME

@scottshaw8864 Жыл бұрын

Yes, why it takes 20 loud button presses to change 2 numbers will forever remain a mystery

@susanollington5257 Жыл бұрын

Wild guess - you can change modes with Tab and shift and I think he might be pressing tab over and over to get to the right mode but he’s going so fast he sometimes presses it too many times?

@SjorsHoukes Жыл бұрын

@@susanollington5257 Yes, Anthony is switching input tools. That's why it sounds like he needs 5 clicks to do 1 thing.

@paulmaglio9254 Жыл бұрын

@@SjorsHoukes The funny part is that if he leaves the controls on the full sized number and just uses the control and command keys he can achieve the same thing without all the tabbing. Then again, it wouldn't be Simon-like to do things the easy way!

@MikehMike01 11 ай бұрын

because he’s old and doesn’t understand keyboard shortcuts

@lexipowell7357 9 ай бұрын

I like it; it's like ASMR

@anthony_edward 2 жыл бұрын

The end had me dying

@francoistrempe Жыл бұрын

I loved this. At the start is seemed like a parody showing how insanely good Simon is that he can solve sudokus super fast, the you see the second keyboard giving the impression that he is solving two at the same time, then you get the punch. Well played.

@SjorsHoukes Жыл бұрын

2365 individual commenters: "That's so niche!"

@jaega4247 Жыл бұрын

"That's worth a bobbins, I think." - taken from the same video.

@jaybird6396 Жыл бұрын

You missed the part where he tells you the secret

@AlberteUdenH Жыл бұрын

BOBBINS!

@258thHiGuy 8 ай бұрын

I like the idea that Simon has an RGB keyboard

@undergroundmonorail 8 ай бұрын

you know that dude has the tiktok influencer setup for *sure*

@noitallmanaz Жыл бұрын

This meme was as useful as a chocolate teapot

@shangaiguarisnaque9277 Жыл бұрын

I see what you did there

@Meni_Rosenfeld Жыл бұрын

I thought it would start with a blank grid and end with a fully solved Sudoku... Because that's how fast he solves them.

@michaelpeele5739 Жыл бұрын

There's one that he "solves" in about 9 seconds. Actually, it is making every cell a color, and not getting the digits until the last moment, then you can fill in all the digits in a few seconds.

@galoomba5559 Ай бұрын

At least in his videos, I feel like he's slow but consistent. I often solve puzzles faster than him because he tries to be extra careful and rigorous. But then I get stuck for 2 hours while he keeps finding new logic every few minutes...

@tashwinters3355 Жыл бұрын

"Beautiful."

@jkid1134 Жыл бұрын

I only ever use their site on mobile, but I have a very good idea of how the keyboard shortcuts work from trying to make sense of every click from Simon's keyboard.

@Epic-1224 8 ай бұрын

That explains why I sometimes solve the same sudoku faster than him when I'm using my phone

@potato.pancake 8 ай бұрын

never expected to see such a niche meme that i understood completely

@JamesStocks 8 ай бұрын

That's a 2, that's a 6, that's a 9. Oh, that's a 7! And then we have all the 3s.

@bristolrovers27 2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 Love the guy, but you're bang on

@sonalita_ Жыл бұрын

"bang on" I see what you did there. Take my internet goldz.

@leileleileleile Жыл бұрын

This is so accurate and very niche, god bless you for making this

@maxmccamish8095 Жыл бұрын

niche meme but I appreciate it so much

@altintx Жыл бұрын

This video just popped up as a recommendation. I watched it and laughed. I went to like it but it was already liked. I’d seen it last year. LOL. Even funnier.

@hashtagornah 11 ай бұрын

I instantly knew what the meme was gonna be and had to watch. I was not disappointed. 😂

@la_gej_ Жыл бұрын

I legit haven't laughed that hard in years

@kindlin 10 ай бұрын

It's the second keyboard that really drives this one home for me. It's so good.

@Mmm---mmm 21 күн бұрын

I love the fact that this got randomly recommended to us in these last few months and almost exactly a full year ago it happrned too, funny meme

@danielharmon1204 Ай бұрын

This is so much funnier than it has any right to be

@marktrescowthick9027 Жыл бұрын

What say we all chip in for a touch typing class? Absolute gold, and totally accurate.

@sportsjefe Жыл бұрын

He's an accountant by trade! If anybody is supposed to know how to do this it's him!

@mtchllBarrett Жыл бұрын

really what you're hearing is him hammering spacebar to switch between the different number entry modes in the software, no touch typing class needed :)

@Unchained_Alice Жыл бұрын

But then the videos would be 1/4 the length so we'd get less Simon. :(

@paulmaglio9254 Жыл бұрын

@@sportsjefe It doesn't help that their software's ten key is actually inverted. There have been times then I have been staring at the screen with my hand over the ten key and typed in the wrong number because I looked at the one on the screen. I really like Sven's software, it's just a little something I noticed that is probably contributing to all of the mistypes.

@nonyobisniss7928 7 ай бұрын

@@paulmaglio9254 I only look at the on screen panel if choosing a color and don't use the numpad so hadn't thought about the discrepancy. I suppose the advantage of numbering it that way is it matches the numbering system for the 3x3 boxes, and it's more in keeping with our intuitive reading order (e.g. written English).

@notthatseanbean Жыл бұрын

Lol, that is hardcore niche. I and 400,000 other people laugh at this.

@CriticalMonkey623 Жыл бұрын

Yesss, gimme more Sudoku shitposting algorithm, it's about time

@nathanialblower9216 Жыл бұрын

OMG, I’ve been laughing to myself about this for years! I can’t believe you did this!! What’s with the soda cans though? Artistic license, or do we have some reason to believe he’s got no trash bin??

@undergroundmonorail Жыл бұрын

no that's just what my room is like lmao

@undergroundmonorail Жыл бұрын

i can't believe i got roasted this hard on my own video

@AndaraBledin 11 ай бұрын

@@undergroundmonorail At least you've got great taste in soda. 😸

@rayflyers Жыл бұрын

Impressive that he does all that with the letter keys

@AnaFromTheShire 2 ай бұрын

LMAO holy crap this is so bang-on!!! I love this, I love that you went to the trouble of making this and I love that I've now watched enough CtC that this appeared in my feed today. A great LOL - thanks! :D

@TheRedCyndaquil Ай бұрын

It may have taken 2 years to get to me, but it was well worth it

@barerparsley3311 8 ай бұрын

This is my favorite meme of all time

@ButcherBB Жыл бұрын

Possibly my favorite video ever made

@aarond6131 Жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one that noticed holy shit I'm dying

@salmonbelle Жыл бұрын

I just found this and it's a treasure.

@ApesAmongUs Жыл бұрын

The 7 needed to disappear and then a 6 appear and disappear several times.

@bornonthebattlefront4883 7 ай бұрын

As someone who’s quite new to this side of KZfaq (I’m forever grateful for it) this is an S tier meme Having watched cracking the cryptic for only about a year now, it’s so exciting when I figure out something first

@solarpellets 7 ай бұрын

I love how he presses like four keys to enter a single number. It's almost therapeutic.

@kellycashion2404 Жыл бұрын

I just watched this 4 times in a row 😂

@KeiFlox 24 күн бұрын

Friggin amazing.

@SetemkiaFawn Жыл бұрын

Put on and it's lots of fun. It is niche because you have to watch cracking the cryptic. Now it may be the most popular Sudoku channel in the world, but that doesn't mean everybody watches it and most certainly people don't spend hours of their day every day solving sudokos. But what I really want to know What I really want to know is, what's the second keyboard, the one on the right?

@undergroundmonorail Жыл бұрын

that's a Drop ALT, got it a while ago because i wanted a 65% for taking to work

@lucad.marchesi8950 Ай бұрын

For the first time in my life I understand an incredibly niche meme lol

@literallyjustayoutubecomme1591 Жыл бұрын

I found out some days ago that CTC has a meme community and I’m glad

@philipphanslovsky5101 Жыл бұрын

Lol, the ending was unexpected. Chapeau!

@alexhill4605 Ай бұрын

this is just perfect

@victorfinberg8595 Жыл бұрын

don't forget the 4 cans of pop

@svool_gsviv9885 Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh this is so good

@KirstCheen Жыл бұрын

This is sensationally funny 🔥🔥😂

@frason2 Жыл бұрын

Oh, so brilliant!

@BeegBeegMikeMike Жыл бұрын

The board was empty about 47 seconds ago and now he won’t stop

@jessie.7533 Жыл бұрын

This is so funny😭😭😂😂and certainly holds truth

@robredmond Жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@jacobknight5497 11 ай бұрын

This just made me laugh out loud 😁

@th.nd.r Жыл бұрын

THIS IS SO TRUE

@stuartharris2165 Жыл бұрын

and you needed to say "Bobbins" at some point!

@jumppis697 2 жыл бұрын

Funny but so true!

@Paulo51297 Жыл бұрын

That's bobbins and beautiful at the same time!

@Vendavalez Ай бұрын

And he is using a quieter keyboard now, which is kind of sad.

@DerMarkus1982 Жыл бұрын

TIL: Sven Neumann's Sudoku app is so complicated, you'l need *two keyboards* to operate it! 😁 BTW, I hope that CrackingTheCryptic know about this. Too funny!

@lynnebaldwin330 8 ай бұрын

Oh bobbins!

@asafthemagniv8374 Жыл бұрын

that's facts bro, no cap🧢🧢🧢

@Patashu Жыл бұрын

I know enough about Cracking the Cryptic to find this funny so: Lmao

@urcnpam Жыл бұрын

Oh, bobbins.

@pinecubes 7 ай бұрын

lmfao I love this so much

@betssylopez5895 Жыл бұрын

so niche and so funny

@benphelan88 2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha amazing

@siddharthannandhakumar6187 28 күн бұрын

I often wondered why would he press 3 or 4 keys to enter a digit...

@michaelparkin1694 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely hilariously true

@8thy 11 ай бұрын

Amazing hahahaha love simon so much

@somethingdiscreet Жыл бұрын

Come on Simon!

@coolpro1461 6 ай бұрын

I love it 😂

@EchoMirage72 Жыл бұрын

You just fucking killed me

@djkhemix Жыл бұрын

That is fucking hilarious!

@awilliams1701 7 ай бұрын

that's hilarious!

@puceronie 7 ай бұрын

Bobbins!

@hunterk9973 Жыл бұрын

That seven was as useless as a chocolate teapot

@crispywhiskers9365 Жыл бұрын

BAHAHAHA this is so spot on

@TheZenytram 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much 😂

@Kurokuma10 7 ай бұрын

It's beautiful 🥲🥲

@benedettapierfelice1873 Жыл бұрын

I laughed so hard at this

@gasp1424 26 күн бұрын

You missed the part where simon audibly grabs his mouse and uses it to click the numbers on the numberpad on screen sometimes rather than use the keyboard. No hate tho I love CTC funny as hell video mate