For win - new V-Cube 7

[Markus Pirzer]

Happy new year to everyone


I've started a slide puzzle contest on my website. All you have to do is to solve the "slide puzzle for experts" (www.rubiks-zauberwuerfel.de/english/sonstiges.html#profischiebepuzzle) as fast as possible. The competition ends when my visitors counter reaches 100.000. The competitor with the lowest time wins a V-Cube 7! More information you'll find on my website (www.rubiks-zauberwuerfel.de)

 

[cpt.Justice]

This seems really cool ^^
I haven't really spent much time with slide puzzles, but I think I'm gonna try a little anyway
Is it a white or black V-7?
How do I know how fast I need to be to win?

 

[MistArts]

The crystal ball was freaky at first. But then I figured it out.

 

[Unknown.soul]

I did this in 16:01.2...
I could do it faster, but it's hard sliding one piece at a time and without numbers XD

 

[Markus Pirzer]

This seems really cool ^^
I haven't really spent much time with slide puzzles, but I think I'm gonna try a little anyway
Is it a white or black V-7?
How do I know how fast I need to be to win?

It's a white V-7
I try to update the highscore list daily (at least at the first time of the competition), so you can see what's the current time to beat.

 

[Markus Pirzer]

The crystal ball was freaky at first. But then I figured it out.

Yes, it's amazing as long as you don't know how it works. I needed some time to find out how it works when I saw the crystal ball the first time (I found it on the website www.puzzle-shop.de).
I was more amazed when I tried it the second and third time. The first time I thought maybe there's always the same result. But when you try it with different numbers you get different results and also the symbol changes. This makes you think that the symbol depends on the number that you have thought.

By the way, I just saw that puzzle-shop.de (the website where I found the crystal ball) is now selling V-Cubes. V-Cube 6 for 40 Euro and V-Cube 7 for 50 Euro, and that prices are (unlike the prices at v-cubes.com) incl. tax!
And there are much lower shipping costs.

 

[cpt.Justice]

I figured the crystal ball out almost straight away

I'm afraid its gonna take a while before you reach 100.000 visitors
You might never have to give away the cube ^^

 

[Markus Pirzer]

Based on my web statistics from December it will only take 2 months. December was a good month, especially at Christmas time I have more visitors than on average. If this contest will lead to more visitors on my site (which was the case at least at the first day) maybe it will only take a few weeks to reach 100000 visitors.

 

[fanwuq]

can you provide a picture of the original state? Or is that part of the challenge to figure out?

 

[cpt.Justice]

can you provide a picture of the original state? Or is that part of the challenge to figure out?

There is a picture in the highscores

Yay, I'm currently in the lead! But I think my time is easy to beat, maybe I will try to beat it myself, but at the moment I'm kinda tired of this game

 

[Waynilein]

Does anyone know a speed solution to this puzzle? The way I'm doing it is LBL from top to bottom.

 

[fanwuq]

Does anyone know a speed solution to this puzzle? The way I'm doing it is LBL from top to bottom.

I do Petrus (Tetris?) Block building saves a few more moves, I think.

 

[cpt.Justice]

I don't care about moves, the important thing is look ahead during F2L
Don't rush, go slow and look ahead

Did anyone beat my times yet?
When you do I will pick it up again!

So far there's been like 300-400 visits to the page today? That's not bad at all

 

[Unknown.soul]

You misspelled my nickname, there's an "n" in "Unknown" :rolleyes:

 

[cpt.Justice]

How fast do you think the winning time is going to be?

Also, should this really be in Buy, Sell, Trade? I think it is more suited for off topic or something...

 

[Unknown.soul]

How fast do you think the winning time is going to be?

8 minutes, achieved by me

 

[d4m4s74]

I (as a wannabe hacker) have started on the CPC challenge

 

[Waynilein]

I (also as a wannabe hacker) have started programming a solver.

 

[cpt.Justice]

I think sub-4 minutes is very possible and realistic. I just hope people realise it's not really worth the time your spending on it if you take it that far

And I know for a fact that the winning time won't be 8 minutes

Good luck with the CPC challenge!

 

[d4m4s74]

I got access to the source code, now I only have to search for the right code snippet


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