Difficulty with jigsaw puzzles

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Does anyone else here have difficulties with jigsaw puzzles? I wonder whether this is a difference between those with non verbal learning disorder and ASD.
I have never been able to do them.

They are very easy for me--I can either do them via color matching or shape matching. Toward the end I pop in the pieces really quickly.

I have a knack for them, almost instinctively zeroing in on the right piece, and like the other responder, I seem to use a combination of color matching plus shape discernment, and the end goes really fast.

It may be because I'm heavily visual and have ability in visual arts, so my eye is kind of "on it" for anything that needs visual skills.

I have never been good at jigsaw puzzles at all and never had much patience for them. Someone on here once said that they found it easier to do them when they started taking ADD medication. I don't know if there is any connection with ADD and puzzles, but I suspect I have ADD in addition to AS.

Based on all the students I've seen doing jigsaw puzzles, it's seems like more than not with autism are good at them. I've seen more boys than girls doing them if that matters. I'm reasonably good at them.

Googling, I've read difficulty with jigsaws/shape sorting is a dyspraxia thing.

Interesting. I also have pretty bad dyspraxia. I'm not any good at any other types puzzles though. Like a Rubik's cube, forget it. And it does take me awhile to finish a jigsaw puzzle.

Wouldn't know where to start with a Rubik's cube.

Yep, I have zero "feel" for a Rubik's cube -- have never been able to even begin to know how to do those. But jigsaw puzzles, I just get in a zone and go for it.

I'm not into Rubik's cube either. I can mess it up but not solve it.

The kinds of puzzles I like, are like "Logic dots", "Logic links", "Chocolate fix", "Pathwords". "Wordsearch", "wordfit", "Utopia", "Tilt" (although it's more trial and error really) and Tut's tablet.

I like Rush Hour and River Crossing, but I'm not good at them, can only solve the lower levels.