Introducing qqTimer!

[mrCage]

How about adding a picture showing the scrambles for (regular) cubes??

Per

 

[Lucas Garron]

How about adding a picture showing the scrambles for (regular) cubes??

Per

I suggest you retract that.

 

[qqwref]

A few people have asked for pictures and I really don't think I'm going to try for it. The bigggest problem is that I wouldn't be happy with having pictures for a few puzzles only (and not all of them), but for a lot of puzzles I wouldn't even know how to begin. (Kudos to you if you can think of a reasonable way to represent a Super Floppy Cube or Super Square-1.) It's actually a lot of work to do pictures - for a lot of puzzles I can get away with a one-line scrambler, but writing the code for an image can take hours and add a lot of size to the code itself. I don't know for certain but I estimate that adding pictures to everything would probably multiply the size of the timer (and the amount of time put into it) by 5. And, of course, a lot of people don't even look at the pictures anyway - having to input your color scheme properly is a pain, and rescrambling when your puzzle doesn't match only makes sense in an official competition.

tl;dr version: it'd take more effort than I'm willing to put in, and most people won't even care

 

[Tim Major]

thankyou, this is now my best timer. i use it here in a challenge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVUBAf4vHdU

 

[qqwref]

Updates:
- All scrambles are now saved. When you highlight a time or average a window will pop up on the bottom containing the CCT style list of times (with all times and scrambles). You can still copy the one-line style list from the times window, of course.
- I made the statistics calculator a bit more efficient - now, when you add a time, instead of recalculating the entire thing (which involves calculating a ton of avg12s and so forth) it does a much smaller amount of work. It still has to recalculate when you modify or delete a time, but for those of you with slower computers there should be less delay after you stop the timer.
- You can add a comment on the most recent solve; comments show up in [] brackets. You could use this to mark parities or remind yourself what solves were lucky... whatever you want, really.

 

[StachuK1992]

Updates:
highlight a time or average
a window will pop up on the bottom containing the CCT style list of times.

This doesn't seem to work for me

edit:
yes it does.
People. it only works when you click on a time or average in the right-most box.
not the list of individual times.

 

[Werner]

I know this might sound stupid.
But since you have added the worst time
could you possible add the the worst avg of 5 and 12 ?


An idea for the blindfolded, for adding memotime.
Have so that on blindfolded solves, pressing spacebar will start a new time instead of stopping it.
Spacebar - you start memo - spacebar - you start solve - spacebar you end solve. So every third spacebar press stops the time. The second just makes a new time.
Then when you add avreages you just add two and two times.

Oh, and if two avreages are the same, could you make the timer pick the one with the lowest mean ?

 

[Anthony]

An idea for the blindfolded, for adding memotime.
Have so that on blindfolded solves, pressing spacebar will start a new time instead of stopping it.
Spacebar - you start memo - spacebar - you start solve - spacebar you end solve. So every third spacebar press stops the time. The second just makes a new time.
Then when you add avreages you just add two and two times.

That would be nice, but instead of giving you two times and having to add it up yourself, it would be convenient if it did it for you. I'm usually curious about what my memo-execution breakdown is.

So.. If it's not too much trouble, it would be awesome if you could add that feature, qq. It's already my favorite timer to use, but this would make it even better.

Thanks.

 

[blah]

Sorry for hijacking your thread, Michael, but I think more people need to see this:
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14977

@Werner and Anthony: My timer already has the features you requested, and more.

 

[Anthony]

Sorry for hijacking your thread, Michael, but I think more people need to see this:
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14977

@Werner and Anthony: My timer already has the features you requested, and more.

I don't know how I missed that thread.

Thanks, your timer's great.

 

[dbax0999]

Hey, this is a semi-bump.

But when Hays was doing his one hour marathon we got the idea that you might be able to add a "marathon" mode. That way you only have to hit the space bar once between solves and perhaps prevents you from hitting it twice on accident by not stopping below .5 or so.

We couldn't find a good timer to do this so we had to rely on hitting the spacebar twice between every solve for cubetimer.

Thanks, David

 

[(X)]

Bump :O

I'm having a problem with the timer. When I start the timer it automaticly stops after 0.1-1 seconds. So I can't use the timer at all. I'm using IE if that has anything to say.

I also have a suggestion. I have noticed that I perform better on timers with darker background colours and worse on timers with white background. I think it is hard for my eyes to adapt to the cube. So I would suggest to change the background colour to something a bit darker. This is just a suggestion though

 

[PatrickJameson]

I'm using IE if that has anything to say.

Solution: Stop using IE.

 

[miniGOINGS]

I use IE with Cride's cTimer with the dark background, and it works quite well.

 

[(X)]

I use IE with Cride's cTimer with the dark background, and it works quite well.

Is it online? It has to be online since I'm currently using my school computer and we are not allowed to download programs. If it is, can you please post the link?

Thanks

 

[miniGOINGS]

If it is, can you please post the link?

Thanks

http://cube.crider.co.uk/ctimer.html

Dark setting is in the options menu.

 

[(X)]

If it is, can you please post the link?

Thanks

http://cube.crider.co.uk/ctimer.html

Dark setting is in the options menu.

Thank you, best online timer I've tried.

 

[jms_gears1]

If it is, can you please post the link?

Thanks

http://cube.crider.co.uk/ctimer.html

Dark setting is in the options menu.

dont you think this is a bit of a slap in the face/rude?

 

[miniGOINGS]

dont you think this is a bit of a slap in the face/rude?

Well, I don't think that one timer will work for everyone, so if qqtimer doesn't work for (X), I'd like to direct (X) to something that does.

I think that my help was better than "Stop using IE."

(X): You could either using a different web browser as Patrick has stated, or use a different timer.

 

[StachuK1992]

Don't use IE. That's it. No discussion. I really don't get what people don't understand about this.

On a relevant matter, (X), why not use CCT offline, or cubetimer if it needs to be online?