Stackmat Pro Timers and the WCA

[Stefan]

I don't think the solution is to buy a knock-off version.

Well, if it's better, why not?

 

[Ickenicke]

Seriously, your first post in ths thread just makes no sense, I don't even know what you're trying to say.

Seriously? I think that he tries to say that it is good to use gen3 timers beacuse you get times down to 1/1000 of a second. And he think it would be most useful for magics, but magics are getting removed.

Something like that

 

[RNewms27]

I have a QJ and it doesn't start half the time. I have to check right after I begin a solve to see if it started. I went back to using Cohen's timer on my iPod.

All stackmat timers seem to be better than QJ.

 

[Daniel Wu]

I have a QJ and it doesn't start half the time. I have to check right after I begin a solve to see if it started. I went back to using Cohen's timer on my iPod.

All stackmat timers seem to be better than QJ.

I experienced the same type of problems with my QJ timer. I could only use it for around 10 solves because it broke. Despite the current problems with stackmat timers, they are still much higher quality than QJ timers.

 

[Stefan]

I have a QJ and it doesn't start half the time. I have to check right after I begin a solve to see if it started. I went back to using Cohen's timer on my iPod.

All stackmat timers seem to be better than my QJ.

Fixed that for you, don't see why you suddenly generalized there like that.

And http://www.stefan-pochmann.info/misc/stackmat/qj_accuracy.png

 

[Bob]

Stefan, did you get a PRO timer? Would you be able to do a similar analogy for PRO vs QJ?

 

[Stefan]

No, I don't have one. But Natan did a similar test with a PRO and apparently it doesn't have gaps.

 

[Puzzlaholic]

They really should've put a "recall" button on the timer that would recall the last time before a reset. That's what I think.

Aside from that, I have a question regarding the data port on these new timers. How does one connect this timer to a PC and what cubing timers are currently available that are compatible with Gen3 timers?
Any help would be appreciated

 

[Tim Major]

Checklist:
HARDWARE:
1) use a stackmat with an output
2) buy a stereo jack cable with 3,5mm on each end
3) buy an adapter with 3,5mm (on the hole) and 2,5mm (on the other side)
4) plug the adapter in one end of the cable
5) put the 2,5mm end into the stackmat timer and the 3,5mm end into the microphone input

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gE0OoUhP6pU

 

[Puzzlaholic]

Okay. I figured that part out on my own, but I was just thinking that there might be a specific cable that cubers use that plugs directly from the timer to the PC rather than converting 3.5mm to 2.5mm etc.
The second part of my question remains unanswered and that is which program cubers use with this new timer (if there is such a thing, yet).

 

[Nathan Dwyer]

If a competition is using pro timers and the judges are told to write the entire time out and let the person entering times truncate it, if 2 people both got an 11.38 3x3 average (for example), and one person's best time was a 9.627 and the other person's best time was a 9.628, would they go to the thousandths place to determine the winner?

 

[Stefan]

I was just thinking that there might be a specific cable that cubers use that plugs directly from the timer to the PC rather than converting 3.5mm to 2.5mm etc.

I use a 3.5mm male to 2.5mm male cable. They cost less than a dollar with free shipping.

 

[Puzzlaholic]

Thank you, Stefan. That's what I'm looking for

 

[Bob]

If a competition is using pro timers and the judges are told to write the entire time out and let the person entering times truncate it, if 2 people both got an 11.38 3x3 average (for example), and one person's best time was a 9.627 and the other person's best time was a 9.628, would they go to the thousandths place to determine the winner?

No.

 

[kcl]

This doesn't exactly pertain to the thread, but does anyone know if the rainbow mat and timer set on speedstacks has a timer with a data port? I'm confused because it says the timer and mat are gen2, but the mat is shaped like gen3 (good thing). So assuming it's a mat shaped like a gen3 with gen2 stuff, does the timer have a data port, memory, that stuff? Thanks..