Lucas Garron
Administrator
I couldn't sleep on the night before US Nationals, so I made: cubing.net/inspection/
This tool is intended to be used on a smartphone as an alternative to stopwatches for the judge (e.g. if there aren't stopwatches, or if the judge prefers). In particular, it displays the current number of seconds of inspection very clearly, and uses color changes to cue the announcements at 8 and 12 seconds.
I used it to judge solves all weekend, and it worked pretty well.
In fact, it worked better than usual: I used to forget to announce the 8-second mark once in a while, but I believe I only missed it once during this entire competition.
I want to keep it simple, but I'm certainly open to improvements. Odder already contributed a fix!
I'm already considering a small screen flash at 8 and 12 seconds, but I don't want it to be much more intrusive than the current color change.
This tool is intended to be used on a smartphone as an alternative to stopwatches for the judge (e.g. if there aren't stopwatches, or if the judge prefers). In particular, it displays the current number of seconds of inspection very clearly, and uses color changes to cue the announcements at 8 and 12 seconds.
I used it to judge solves all weekend, and it worked pretty well.
In fact, it worked better than usual: I used to forget to announce the 8-second mark once in a while, but I believe I only missed it once during this entire competition.
I want to keep it simple, but I'm certainly open to improvements. Odder already contributed a fix!
I'm already considering a small screen flash at 8 and 12 seconds, but I don't want it to be much more intrusive than the current color change.
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