User blog comment:Wythagoras/NEWS! I found a 22-state machine that beats G!/@comment-25420430-20140805163340/@comment-10429372-20140805192044

It took me a few months to understand it, and even then I was just making simple programs such as programs for 3n and n^2. After making some simple programs, I saw an 3 state 3 color exponentation machine and that was my first bound. Since then I have made much much more bounds :P

Even though I'm interested in googology for about two years, I still don't understand some things like Loader's function, finite games, Rayo, deep details of ITTMs, ...