We had a 24-day speed run competition running from July 3 through July 26. The puzzle was a 200-piece puzzle by Ravensburger called Travel Stamps.
Makayla Malloy had the fastest single competition time at 0:06:56. Congratulations Makayla! She barely edged out Lisa Grow who finished in second place with a time of 0:07:00. Kyle Kossin finished in third place with a time of 0:09:29.
Erica Ferland completed the puzzle the most times with 80. Dawnyle Haugen was second with 46 and Libby Powers was third with 45. For Erica, that’s 16,000 pieces placed in those 24 days. Congratulations Erica!
For the improvement statistics, Cathy Evans had the best percent improvement with 70.49%. Dawnyle Haugen was second with 68.50% and Erika Hunter was third with 65.04% For time improvement, Ruthi M was first with an improvement of 0:35:43. Erika Hunter was second with 0:31:56 and Cathy Evans was third with 0:30:18.
Overall, there were 29 people that completed the puzzle at least one time for a grand total of 475 completions. That’s a total of 95,000 pieces placed during the competition. The average completion time was 0:15:50. The total amount of time spent completing the puzzle was 125 hours, 17 minutes, 37 seconds. View the full results here.
Thank you to everyone that participated in the 2026 Summer Speed Run! Congratulations to Makayla, Erica, Cathy, and Ruthi! Watch for details for another speed run coming up this fall.
