Hypocrism
Veteran
I'm considering attempting to design a piece of hardware that can interface (via bluetooth?) with a piece of software which would be used for training purposes.
It would be attached to a specialised cube core, so that it can detect the moves made on a cube. The moves would be sent to the software to update your turn history.
These are the uses I've thought of for it:
LL Training
Instead of applying an alg to get a LL state, and measuring your time to solve, the software will develop a random state and display it. You execute the moves (on a blank cube, or ignoring the colours on your cube) and the software will tell you if your moves were correct as well as how long your algs each took, and the delay between each. This seems to me to be a less clumsy way of improving recognition and execution times. You'll rapidly solve LL after LL without having to perform an algorithm each time-you just do moves based on what you see on-screen.
Solve breakdowns
Apply the scramble given by the software, and do a regular solve. The software will determine when you've finished cross, first pair, F2L, OLL, solve, etc. This will give a more natural breakdown of solves and help with analysis. It also would allow a TPS graph, accurate move count, pointing out of redundant moves, pointing out when your biggest pauses are, and the ability to quickly compare your moves with ideal moves for each step. Averages and suggestions for areas to train on would be easy to implement given an ideal breakdown model.
QUESTION: if this was available to purchase, or the software was available to interface with hardware that you could assemble yourself, would you train using this idea? Do you think it would be beneficial to your improvement? And would you prefer to be able to fit it onto your own cube (if possible) or would you prefer to have a cube sent to you with the hardware intact?
It would be attached to a specialised cube core, so that it can detect the moves made on a cube. The moves would be sent to the software to update your turn history.
These are the uses I've thought of for it:
LL Training
Instead of applying an alg to get a LL state, and measuring your time to solve, the software will develop a random state and display it. You execute the moves (on a blank cube, or ignoring the colours on your cube) and the software will tell you if your moves were correct as well as how long your algs each took, and the delay between each. This seems to me to be a less clumsy way of improving recognition and execution times. You'll rapidly solve LL after LL without having to perform an algorithm each time-you just do moves based on what you see on-screen.
Solve breakdowns
Apply the scramble given by the software, and do a regular solve. The software will determine when you've finished cross, first pair, F2L, OLL, solve, etc. This will give a more natural breakdown of solves and help with analysis. It also would allow a TPS graph, accurate move count, pointing out of redundant moves, pointing out when your biggest pauses are, and the ability to quickly compare your moves with ideal moves for each step. Averages and suggestions for areas to train on would be easy to implement given an ideal breakdown model.
QUESTION: if this was available to purchase, or the software was available to interface with hardware that you could assemble yourself, would you train using this idea? Do you think it would be beneficial to your improvement? And would you prefer to be able to fit it onto your own cube (if possible) or would you prefer to have a cube sent to you with the hardware intact?
