Numbers note

[Ben Hunter]

Just wondered if anybody uses the little notepad in the numbers round? I personally never write anything down.

[Simon Myers]

Well, yeah of course. Every time I get a solution before the time runs out I'll type it into the notes box and hit end round early. It's a waste of time clicking away in the GUI if I can just type in "2*(100+7)-3" and be done. Less error-prone too.

[Kirk Bevins]

I'm not sure Ben knows you can do that, Sid. I think he thinks the notepad is just an internet version of a paper and pencil.

[Ben Hunter]

Well, yeah of course. Every time I get a solution before the time runs out I'll type it into the notes box and hit end round early. It's a waste of time clicking away in the GUI if I can just type in "2*(100+7)-3" and be done. Less error-prone too.

This... changes everything.

[Jon Corby]

Well, yeah of course. Every time I get a solution before the time runs out I'll type it into the notes box and hit end round early. It's a waste of time clicking away in the GUI if I can just type in "2*(100+7)-3" and be done. Less error-prone too.

This. In a masochistic kinda way, I love the little panic I get when I think I've solved one, typed it in, and then the formula dialog still appears. Did I miscalculate? Or simply miskey? Aargh, the time's going etc

[Phil Reynolds]

Depends. If I get the solution early then I'll use the notepad; but if I don't get it until about 20 seconds in I tend not to bother, because in the rush of typing in my solution within the remaining time I'll probably make keying or bracketing errors and have to use the formula dialogue anyway.

[Matt Morrison]

I probably use it 80% of the time. The other 20% being a solution I've found too late to type in, or a not-bang-on solution where the remaining time's better spent trying to find something closer.
Can't believe Ben didn't know how this works. It's all in the manual.

[Ian Dent]

It's not clever.

[Matt Morrison]

It's not clever.

JEALOUS

[Ian Dent]

It builds the tension more to use to clicky wicky.

[Kirk Bevins]

It builds the tension more to use to clicky wicky.

What the f*ck?

[Darren Carter]

So does typing your solution in the notes box means you don't have to click your solution in? If so, I never knew that - I thought it was just there for the sake of it!

[Darren Carter]

So does typing your solution in the notes box means you don't have to click your solution in? If so, I never knew that - I thought it was just there for the sake of it!

Just tried it and yes it does, I wondered how some people did it so fast! I also like how if you enter it in the notes box wrong, it gets you to click it in.

[Kirk Bevins]

So does typing your solution in the notes box means you don't have to click your solution in? If so, I never knew that - I thought it was just there for the sake of it!

Just tried it and yes it does, I wondered how some people did it so fast! I also like how if you enter it in the notes box wrong, it gets you to click it in.

This.

[Matt Morrison]

What the f*ck?

What the fuck?