Denton, the fabulos OLL Intern, has shared the wonderful existance of Hydra50s to us on twitter, telling us, "It's called the #Hydra50 after a friend who wrote 500 words in 3 minutes, but 'fifty headed hydra' was the only thing he spelled correctly!"
In a Hydra50, you write for 3 minutes, not hitting the backspace and not caring about spelling or grammar. Just writing as fast as your fingers can move.
Even if we can't get 500 words, I find this to be very productive! So who else is up for the challenge? :)
173 again. And yeah, every 10 minutes sounds good! :D
(I've never just let myself type like crazy before - while I do lock my inner editor up, I ALWAYS go back and fix spelling and grammar. This feels... Almost a little forbidden. It's terribly fun.)
249, and ran into my boss, who was lookign over my shoulder at all of the spelling errors like, "What the heck?" I'm not working right now, he just needed to talk to me.
Fifty Headed Hydra!
Denton, the fabulos OLL Intern, has shared the wonderful existance of Hydra50s to us on twitter, telling us, "It's called the #Hydra50 after a friend who wrote 500 words in 3 minutes, but 'fifty headed hydra' was the only thing he spelled correctly!"
In a Hydra50, you write for 3 minutes, not hitting the backspace and not caring about spelling or grammar. Just writing as fast as your fingers can move.
Even if we can't get 500 words, I find this to be very productive! So who else is up for the challenge? :)
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People seem to be slightly confused on how to define a Hydra50, and looking back at my deffinition, it could be better. :P
A Hydra50 is writing as fast as you possibly can for 3 minutes.
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IN!
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How does :10 sound? :D
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Sounds darn fine to me ;)
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127. How did you do? :)
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219 words of almost complete and utter gibberish, haha.
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Want to go again? At the :20 perhaps?
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:20 sounds good, then I'll have time to make a cup of tea :)
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118 on this one. Took me a moment to notice the time! :P
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173, but I spent a few seconds remembering the word 'diplomat'. Going again on :30. This is a ton of fun! :D
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Want to just do one every ten minutes? :D
And one minute warning! ;) Anyone else want to join in?
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I'll go at :40
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Woohoo! Got 130 on that last one. ^^
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173 again. And yeah, every 10 minutes sounds good! :D
(I've never just let myself type like crazy before - while I do lock my inner editor up, I ALWAYS go back and fix spelling and grammar. This feels... Almost a little forbidden. It's terribly fun.)
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at :40 ?
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I'm going at the :45. :)
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249, and ran into my boss, who was lookign over my shoulder at all of the spelling errors like, "What the heck?" I'm not working right now, he just needed to talk to me.
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224 for the :40! (: I'll be going again on :45 just for fun, though, 'cause I'm lovin' this!
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124 & joining :45! xD
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Only 104- I was unprepared for that one. xD
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Gonna take a short break and get something to eat. I'll be back later! (:
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Yeah. I just sat the :50 out to migrate to another room. Anyone want to join on the :00? :)
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113. Going again on the :05, :10, and :15. Join me for one! Or all!
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137 for the :05. My best yet! 134 for the :10. ^^ 130 for the :15.
Next one I do will be at :30! Time to fix a couple of those spelling errors... ;)
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Going at the :05
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:25 i mean
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I'll go on the :40.
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122 on my last one. I'll join the :40, then it's lunch time for me! :)
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I want to do this! Anyone in for any time soon?
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Just did it and failed but I'm up for a second attempt!
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Did even worse... I don't think this is for me :)
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i shall do one at the :50!
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I did this sort of thing except it was about 300 words in 5 minutes. I'll do one at the :00
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This sounds good. :)
Starting at :35
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Started at :36 instead
Got 187
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120 for :42 to :44
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139 for the last 3 minutes, but I don't want to spam the board.
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Go at :00? No idea if anyone is here but......
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going at :05 this sounds awesome