[DBass]

If you could implement some way to sort by speed of play, that would be great. It gets tiresome having to leave due to extremely slow play.

[shyams]

DBass, on 2016-August-05, 14:19, said:

If you could implement some way to sort by speed of play, that would be great. It gets tiresome having to leave due to extremely slow play.

Out of curiosity, may I ask what is "extremely slow" according to you?

[Bbradley62]

According to Hands Records, DBass pretty consistently plays in MBC at 4 minutes per hand. I was expecting to find records indicating that he jumps around a lot, but he actually does it very seldom. He did leave one table after a hand took 10 minutes.

[1eyedjack]

I like the proposal in principle, although I foresee a few practical issues, probably surmountable. It would be irrelevant what any individual player perceives as (insufferably) slow. They would vary, of course, but that would not matter. It would just affect the cutoff point in the rankings for each player separately.

[akwoo]

The standard for live bridge in the ACBL is 8 hands an hour, and many experts play even slower.

Frankly, I frequently find myself playing too fast (and being implicitly pressured to play quickly) when I play online. I make too many careless mistakes and fail to think hands through (ending up taking inferior lines) far too often.

I realize the psychology of waiting online - when you aren't sure if the other person has suddenly disconnected - is different from waiting for someone you physically see.

[Zelandakh]

Bbradley62, on 2016-August-07, 21:08, said:

According to Hands Records, DBass pretty consistently plays in MBC at 4 minutes per hand. I was expecting to find records indicating that he jumps around a lot, but he actually does it very seldom. He did leave one table after a hand took 10 minutes.

Maybe the hand took 10 minutes because the other players had to wait 5 minutes for a replacement - who knows?

I wonder if the OP is one of the types that Ed likes to quote ("I didn't come here to think, I came to play bridge!") or, worse, one that types "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" to the table as soon as a player thinks about something for more than 10 seconds. If all you are interested in is playing random cards then you might consider playing in the RBC. You might also look into renting out the robots as they can be set to whichever speed of play you prefer. That would be good to remove you from the pool of opponents for players that actually like to think about the game from time to time.

[barmar]

Welcome to the forums, DBass. Please notice that we have separate forums for bridge in general and BBO specifically. I've moved this thread to one of the BBO-specific forums.