Prisma Puzzle Timer

[Walter Souza]

I got it to work. Thank you to all who helped, especially fatboyxpc.

Nice. Care to make a video/tutorial?

I am not sure if it has been covered but my Stackmat Timer and the stored time are the same but the large display time is wrong. The display time does not revert to the correct stored time. Not a big issue but would be for videos.

It shouldn't happen. Can you reproduce the problem?

 

[Walter Souza]

Why can't we edit scramble options for default categories ? I'd like to put the suboptimal scrambler as the default scrambler for 2x2 and pyra...

You can't change the scrambler of any category.

Think about this situation: you solve 1000 Rubik's cubes ("random scrambler"), then change the scrambler to "easy cross" and solve 1000 more. Your statistics don't make sense anymore.

Unfortunately, 2x2x2/pyraminx optimal/suboptimal scrambler are equivalent, but can't be switched.

 

[Walter Souza]

When i do a 3x3 solve with the scramble thats not in prisma and then go to add solution i try to put in the scramble and it wont let me why not?

well then how do i add a scramble and solution from another timer with out importing the scrambles then adding the solutions

File -> Add solution... (Ctrl + A) uses the current scramble. History -> Add solutions... uses the scramble(s) you provide.

 

[Walter Souza]

Hi!
How to off the 3D visualization at blind?

It was asked before, but I don't understand why. If you want to "cheat", you could look at the scrambled puzzle in your hands. Am I missing something?

 

[Walter Souza]

Is it me, or are the 4x4 scrambles wrong? aka Uw Dw'

You're right.

 

[Walter Souza]

I got one this time:
B2 R2 L2 F2 D' L2 D U D' U' L' B R' B R' L2 F2 L'

Which scrambler is this sequence from?

And I got some ideas for the timer:
1. Questions (?? I don't no in English) that come to stand as time passes or running, likke qqTimer. (change in settings).

I searched qqtimer settings but couldn't find anything about question marks. Could you rephrase your suggestion?

2. Sound that you hear if yoy push the space button.
Our keyboard is not functioning properly.
When I hear something I attachment or the timing is start.

Play a sound at the start of a timing? Why?

3. In the settings set up all the time remember. Even if you've completed it or the next day of you do 3x3 and then Magic en then 4x4 en then again 3x3 than it is still.

It was suggested before. The problem is that the main window can hold at most 300/400 times without lagging. Anyway, a single session shouldn't span more than a category or a run of the program.

I hope you had something and that you may find it useful (my ideas).

It is my main timer.

Sorry for bad English.

Thanks Mathijs. It means a lot to me.

 

[Walter Souza]

All times are saved in the history are they not?..

No.

Is it supposed to save times?

For me it doesn't.

Times are saved in an embedded database and are shown in the history window.

Make an empty folder anywhere and copy "PrismaPuzzleTimer0.4.jar" into it. Run the program and a "puzzletimer.h2.db" file will be created.

 

[FatBoyXPC]

I apologize for the spelling error

Yes, optimal x-cross would be past awesome. What about not necessarily x-cross but just making/preserving an easy pair? I guess the best example of this is to see how Rowan does it, in this thread.

 

[nickvu2]

So the first suggestion is to add a mean of 50/100 line to the graph.

After 6 months solving about 100 cubes a day, the graph looks like this (times are made up):

Adding a mean of 100 red line, the graph looks like this:

See? The black dots are enough to show improvement.


The next suggestion is to distribute the times evenly along the x axis.

I deleted the third week's times to show why it's not a good idea.

In the above graph, you can clearly see that some data is missing.

In the above graph, you can't see that data is missing and there's an "unnatural" sudden drop in times (red arrow).

I'm not sure I understand your suggestion about time frame adjustment. If you want to see statistics about the whole history, select all times. If you want to see statistics about the last month, select only the last month's times.

Really cool to see that much data filled in...even if it is made up. What do you think of making the graph logarithmic, or making it optional? As it is, changes get harder to see as the data points get smaller.

 

[Schmidt]

Hi!
How to off the 3D visualization at blind?

Like this!

 

[Tall5001]

Like this!

thats funny

 

[Juju]

Just want to say that I've been using this timer for a month and I couldn't be happier with it. Awesome work thanks!

 

[Tall5001]

Hey walter do you know when the next version is going to come out?

 

[Walter Souza]

Really cool to see that much data filled in...even if it is made up. What do you think of making the graph logarithmic, or making it optional? As it is, changes get harder to see as the data points get smaller.

Times don't seem to decrease exponentially. I don't think logarithmic scale makes sense in this case.

 

[Walter Souza]

Just want to say that I've been using this timer for a month and I couldn't be happier with it. Awesome work thanks!

\o/

 

[Walter Souza]

Hey walter do you know when the next version is going to come out?

I don't know. There are still some boring (but important) things to do (internationalization, UI polishing) and some hard things (performance, BLD solvers). I can say that it won't take less than a month.

 

[Walter Souza]

I apologize for the spelling error

Lol. Don't worry, I was just kidding...

Yes, optimal x-cross would be past awesome. What about not necessarily x-cross but just making/preserving an easy pair? I guess the best example of this is to see how Rowan does it, in this thread.

I quickly hacked together an optimal X-cross solver and it works better than I expected! The average length seems to be around 7.36 moves (HTM). Here is the distribution found after solving 100000 cubes:

3: 11
4: 98
5: 1168
6: 9213
7: 43253
8: 44840
9: 1417

 

[nickvu2]

Times don't seem to decrease exponentially. I don't think logarithmic scale makes sense in this case.

Imagine the effort it takes to shave 10 secs off your time if your averaging 5 mins...then what about 10 secs off a 1 min avg? 30 sec avg? 15 sec avg? 10 sec avg!?!? Times don't drop linearly...most standard graphs (including your example) will have parabolic curves. With consistent practice, performance almost always improves exponentially, unless some limit is being reached. Behavior analysts always use log10 charts to measure behavior.

Just wanting to inform your decision a little bit...not trying to argue at all =) You'll never hear me mention it again. I really appreciate your work so far, and already consider your's the best timer available!

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

I seem to be having a problem with the keyboad shortcuts. This is because every now and again I accidentaly knock the SPacebar on my ay to the second ctrl with my cube, causing the time not to count and the timer to change to space trigger. Maybe a way of setting it so shortcuts don't work while timing?
Also, does anyone else have this problem?

 

[Schmidt]

I seem to be having a problem with the keyboad shortcuts. This is because every now and again I accidentaly knock the SPacebar on my ay to the second ctrl with my cube, causing the time not to count and the timer to change to space trigger. Maybe a way of setting it so shortcuts don't work while timing?
Also, does anyone else have this problem?

I took an old wireless keyboard and took out all the keys except the two CTRL keys. Poor mans Stackmat Timer??