When I used to play for time as well as low moves, it was a matter of memorization and repetition. I also use firefox as my browser but I use a thumbball mouse. I could never click and drag as fast as I can click and roll my thumb. I was rather consistently in the top 8 in terms of time. Also, it should be pointed out that the time stops not at the end of the 130 (or so) moves but as soon as the last unexposed card is exposed. So, in some games, there can be like only 100 moves made and then everything is exposed-time stops-and the cards play themselves up. So that average of 1/2 second (.50 sec/move) per move to get to 65 seconds for a 130 move game is a little low. I suspect that I could do about .60 to .70 seconds per move and then the cards would all be exposed. Also, the low time can be attained during any game using any number of moves. A 130 low move game might go quite a bit faster if one made 133 moves (like bringing down a king that otherwise plays up) instead of 130 moves.
I'm not playing Klondike solitaire turn one today but let me add my two cents on the speed issue. Have you practiced simply clicking through ten cards, for example? Do that and see what your time is. Restart the game and practice that to see if you can get your time down on just those ten cards. Then, in an actual game, one way to pick up time is memorizing the moves (as has been said) but also knowing the intervals between moving cards from the deck, so that when you have to pass eight cards before the next move, you can click through them quickly.
Since I don't have a great memory, truth be known, I write down the intervals of cards that have to be passed in the deck before making each move. "Go two cards, play the Ace over. Then five cards to play a card down, etc." You have to know the other moves that need to be made down below as you go along (cards moving from pile to pile or up to the Ace piles). When I have time, that's what I have to do to get a faster speed. Even after writing the intervals, I still play the game over and over until I reach a plateau and know I can't go any faster. When I first started playing Solitaire on this website, I too, was blown away by the speed ("faster than I can think" was what came to mind!), I used to wonder how the fastest speeds were even possible. So if I can get below 1:20 or so, lots of you out there can, too!
I'm not playing Klondike solitaire turn one today but let me add my two cents on the speed issue. Have you practiced simply clicking through ten cards, for example? Do that and see what your time is. Restart the game and practice that to see if you can get your time down on just those ten cards. Then, in an actual game, one way to pick up time is memorizing the moves (as has been said) but also knowing the intervals between moving cards from the deck, so that when you have to pass eight cards before the next move, you can click through them quickly.
Since I don't have a great memory, truth be known, I write down the intervals of cards that have to be passed in the deck before making each move. "Go two cards, play the Ace over. Then five cards to play a card down, etc." You have to know the other moves that need to be made down below as you go along (cards moving from pile to pile or up to the Ace piles). When I have time, that's what I have to do to get a faster speed. Even after writing the intervals, I still play the game over and over until I reach a plateau and know I can't go any faster. When I first started playing Solitaire on this website, I too, was blown away by the speed ("faster than I can think" was what came to mind!), I used to wonder how the fastest speeds were even possible. So if I can get below 1:20 or so, lots of you out there can, too!
