New Timer - Your Ideas!

Hi everyone, I am currently in the planning stage of a new web based speedcubing timer. I will be developing this new timer on my own. I have already come up with some basic ideal functions which are listed below.

Custom inspection time and more, including official WCA timing option
Time visuals such as tables and graphing, displaying more in depth informaiton such as daily average, and weekly average.
Import times saved as cookies from other online timers.
Log in and access from any computer.
effective scrambles for all major cubes.
Multiple custom cubes, each with individual stats
Custom layout and colors

I am asking for more ideas as to what you other cubers would like to see in a browser based timer.
I know that most of these features can be found in other timers, but I have yet to find an online timer that brings all of these features together.


Once again, please respond with any of your ideas

-- Thanks

CS Timer. Everything they have done is right so far imo.

It just needs to be more customizable and needs a better settings layout. The options menu is a little weird.

I would say that is a great reference for a good timer. Lots of good ideas.

Check it out.

I currently do use CS timer. But they have no log in, so you have to be on the same computer. They do not have an advanced graph time viewer, which is really helpful to see progress. And they don't allow you to create custom cubes. Thanks for you're response, I do plan on sort of basing my timer off of cs timer.

Log in would be a huge +. Facebook or a google log in. Something to keep times, like you said, across every computer you use. I would like to see enough sessions for every puzzle not just a random amount of sessions like 9.

One thing that csTimer took off of their website is WCA scramble format. For 4x4 and up there is only SiGN which I hate. So please have WCA scramble format.

Something that tells you how fast your next solve needs the be to make your average of X better, I've been wanting this for months, and it would be very very cool, also good for dealing with nerves(nerve practice for comps)

Here are some more requests:
-Saving scrambles
-Being able to create your own ways of averaging, such as if you wanted to do like 250 or like ao75. I don't know why you would, but it would be nice to be able to, and then you could set your own percent of solves to discard.
-If there is going to be a log in thing, an app would be nice too

graphs and statistics like in prisma puzzle timer, maybe better!

what i used to dislike about the graphs in prisma puzzle timer is that long periods of not practicing where also shown in teh graph but would unnecessarily reduce the space for valid information (night times were there as spaces too). it kinda needed an option to only show the times in which solves have been regular, or, as a new idea, show all solves with the same interval so that the graph shows "improvement per solve/time spent solving" instead of "improvement in real time"

I like the idea of custom averaging, also the app could be a future addition.

Okay this is an awesome idea, thanks a lot for posting it! I think It will most likely have to let you choose which average it is based on such as average of 10,50 or 100, or even one of the custom averages rocky0701 mentioned.

You'd probably want a login feature so that it's accessible on other computers. And then maybe being able to export times to an Excel spreadsheet. I always wanted that in a timer. I don't have much experience with coding so I don't know how reasonable that would be.

Frubix said:

Something that tells you how fast your next solve needs the be to make your average of X better, I've been wanting this for months, and it would be very very cool, also good for dealing with nerves(nerve practice for comps)

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That would be very cool.

I would love to have a qqtimr ish thing but you also can save youre times. lets say I am doing 2x2 and I want to do 3x3 I need to reset my times to get a valid avg

Cuber9991 said:

One thing that csTimer took off of their website is WCA scramble format. For 4x4 and up there is only SiGN which I hate. So please have WCA scramble format.

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In the scramble menu pick: WCA, and in the type menu select your puzzle. Ta da, WCA format

Antonie faz fan said:

I would love to have a qqtimr ish thing but you also can save youre times. lets say I am doing 2x2 and I want to do 3x3 I need to reset my times to get a valid avg

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You can just go to a different session.

it would be great to have an import scrambles feature as well as a large storing capacity ( most timers crash after ~500 solves )

It would be awesome to figure out custom averages where I could choose anything. qqTimer has this but not cstimer. I want to know ao25 or any average really, but cstimer is limited

A feature I've always wanted is to be able to save scrambles; you can do that on qqtimer, but only for a limited time (while you have the session open; as soon as you change the session you lose the scrambles). Yes, you could just keep easy/hard/lol/etc. scrambles on a document or something, but assuming you have the log-in feature it would be convenient to have a section where you can store your favorite scrambles.

Would you be able to add an option where it doesn't show you your time until you stop the timer? I always find myself checking how I'm doing on time, and that slows me down. Having an option to prevent that would be extremely helpful.

Carrot said:

In the scramble menu pick: WCA, and in the type menu select your puzzle. Ta da, WCA format

Spoiler

the menu should be something like:
WCA <------ Pick that one
input
=== WCA ===
2x2x2
3x3x3
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I feel kinda stupid now haha. Thanks for telling me how to fix it!