Solving a Cryptogram at Cryptograms.org

Описание: Sample solve of a cryptogram on http://www.cryptograms.org, showing how some puzzles can be solved quite quickly thanks to cascading patterns. This one was solved in 18 seconds. My personal best solve time has been around 12 seconds, and there are those who have legitimately solved puzzles in as little as 8 seconds.

What's the secret? Practice, practice, practice! The more you solve, the more patterns you'll recognize. In this case I tried "THE" right away because of the first word's "6-7-11" frequency distribution. It turned out to be right, and that revealed the H--H pattern lower down, which seasoned solvers will know right away is almost always "WHICH". That opened up the second half of the quote pretty quickly, but then I got stuck on --R-OSE for a moment and switch to the T and made it "TO". I hesitated after that for a few precious seconds until I realized it was "LAY BARE" and "QUESTIONS", and then "PURPOSE" fell into place and the puzzle was solved.

No magic and no cheating required!