What does DNF stand for? What about other abbriviations and cubing jargon?

[Isaac Lai]

Have you all forgotten THIS post? Also, What URL can I find the WCA Rules? Is it just the regulations? Lastly, how do I get my best times and stuff near your name at the end of your post? I am just asking for someone to guild me around the site I guess.

If you are talking about your signature (the thing at the bottom that shows every time you post) you can go to settings and click edit signature.

 

[Rocky0701]

FMC = Fewest Moves Challenge. Source.

+2 is a time penalty of two seconds when a competitor does one of the following eight things:
- The competitor inspects for longer than 15 seconds but not exceeding 17 seconds.
- The competitor starts the timer while touching the puzzle.
- The competitor starts the timer while the puzzle is resting on the timer.
- The competitor starts the timer with incorrect hand placement, where correct hand placement is with fingers on sensors and palms down.
- The competitor stops the timer with incorrect hand placement, where correct hand placement is with fingers on sensors and palms down.
- The competitor stops the timer without fully releasing the puzzle.
- The competitor stops the timer while the puzzle is misaligned within one move in Outer Block Turn Metric (exception: Rubik's Clock).
- The competitor, after stopping the timer but before the judge inspects the puzzle's resting state, touches the puzzle without making any moves (at the discretion of the judge).
These time penalties can accumulate to as much as a 16-second penalty.

DNF stands for "Did Not Finish", which is used in many different scenarios. The WCA Regulations has articulated the DNF-able situations. Results can be retroactively DNFed due to investigation as well.

Of course, these judgments (+2 and DNF) are only the standard for official WCA competitions. There is debate whether or not to include these judgments while doing solves outside of competition, but it comes down to personal preference.

Oh, ok. I always thought it was just fewest move count. Thanks for letting me know! Also it is now my goal to get a +16, I'll have to get a good judge that will notice all of them though haha.

 

[JediJupiter]

Oh, ok. I always thought it was just fewest move count. Thanks for letting me know! Also it is now my goal to get a +16, I'll have to get a good judge that will notice all of them though haha.

Just do it once, don't do it for all of your solves and if you do, get a different judge each time.

 

[Ranzha]

Just do it once, don't do it for all of your solves and if you do, get a different judge each time.

I told my judges beforehand what penalties I was trying to incur.
Many of these judges were blissfully unaware of any penalties besides misalignment, over-inspection, and "karate chop hands".

 

[pdilla]

QTM = Quarter turn metric
HTM = Half turn metric
STM = Slice turn metric
ETM = Execution turn metric

 

[Isaac Lai]

QTM = Quarter turn metric
HTM = Half turn metric
STM = Slice turn metric
ETM = Execution turn metric

Why have I never come across these before

 

[pdilla]

Why have I never come across these before

They're used a lot in reconstructions of solves. They are used to denote how many moves you've done. Each metric is a different way of measuring the amount of moves done in a solve.

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

QTM = Quarter turn metric
HTM = Half turn metric
STM = Slice turn metric
ETM = Execution turn metric

How is ETM different from STM?

 

[TDM]

How is ETM different from STM?

if you did U2 as U U (which you might do in OH), then this is 2 moves ETM, but one move STM.

 

[Username]

Faz: Feliks A Zemdegs

F2L After Zeroing

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

if you did U2 as U U (which you might do in OH), then this is 2 moves ETM, but one move STM.

oh ok.

 

[Iggy]

ttw = twisttheweb.com

Probably not that important but it's used quite often here

 

[Ranzha]

Have you all forgotten THIS post? Also, What URL can I find the WCA Rules? Is it just the regulations? Lastly, how do I get my best times and stuff near your name at the end of your post? I am just asking for someone to guild me around the site I guess.

A quote from the top of the Regulations (link, again):

The WCA Regulations contain the full set of Regulations that apply to all official competitions sanctioned by the World Cube Association.

There are no "WCA Rules". There are the WCA Regulations, which must be followed at every official competition.

Your original post is awfully ambiguous; I'm not sure what "it" in "I just want to get familiar with it" is referring to exactly.

We're happy to help, but you gotta do some homework too.

 

[TheRICuber]

What do all the WCA "abbreviations" mean?

Hello,
I was just wondering what all the abbreviations and whatnot is on the WCA site.
This image refers to the ones I am talking about.

also, what do the numbers below them mean.
Thank you.

 

[Myachii]

National record - Continental record - World record

You should be able to work out what the numbers mean from that.

The R only stands for record if it is listing previous records.
It actually means "Ranking" in the example given.