Word Searches

Well i used to love doing word searches, like they were my favorite thing to do and i used to be like the greatest at them to but now they are okay because I'm not that good at them anymore and i want to know if there is some kind of strategy to doing them or if at a certain age you are best at them. I really have no idea and sometimes when i would do word searches i would make up a game show or competition kind of thing where you have to find all the words in a word search the fastest and whoever wins gets like a lot of fame and stuff i would like to know about any strategies or facts behind word searches so just post a comment if you know anything interesting about them.