Series This is post 1 of the Crossword Science series. > One of the biggest Slack channels at UW is called #minicrossword: it is a channel for fans of the NYT Minicrossword to post their times. Times are recorded by a Slack bot that Max wrote, so that we can crown a daily winner, improve over time, or try to beat our nemeses. But one scary truth is that some people solve crosswords better than others; so some people win almost every day while others are nearly always at the bottom of the stan...