Recent content by Sam N

Thanks for the response Kit. I did not know about the insertion finder. That is a great tool, thanks for the help.

I got an interesting scramble during a 3x3 practice session. During my solve, I got to a point where all the edges were solved quite quickly which was very distracting. It made me wonder if there was any cool solution that could be applied using FMC. I've been quite rusty with this event, so I...

CSP: (this was actually quite easy to trace during the actual scramble) (0,-1)/ (0,1) / (-2,0) / (1,2) / (-3,-3) CO: (4,0) / (3,0) / (0,3) / EO (3,3) / (3,0) / (-1,-1) / (-3,0) / EP: (-5,1) / (0,-3) / (0,3) / (0,-3) / (0,3) / (EP could cancel into this) CP: / (3,0) / (-1,-1) / (-2,1) /...

CSP: (0,-3) / (-3,-2) / (2,0) / (0,-2) / (1,0) / (-3.-3) / (you can get a EO skip if you do (0,-3) / (3,-2) / (2,0) / (0,-2) / (1,0) / (-3.-3) /) CO: (-2,3) / (-3,0) / (-3,0) / EO: (-4,-1) / (3,0) / (-3,0) / (4,1) / (-3,0) / CP: (0,-1) / (3,-3) / (-3,3) / EP: (0,1) / (3,0) / (-1,-1) / (4,1) /...

CS: (-1,-3) / (2,6) / (2,0) / (2,1) /(-1,0) / (-3,0) / CO: (-2,0) / (-3,0) / EO: (-1,-4) / (3,0) / (-3,0) / (4,1) / (-3,0) / CP: (5,-1) / (0,-3) / (0,3) / (0,-3) / (0,3) / EP: (-2,-2) / (5,-1) / (-3,0) / (1,1) / (-3,0) / (-1,0) Next Scramble: (0, 5) / (-3, 3) / (0, -3) / (3, 0) / (-2, -2) /...

My guess is that it is fine, but as always, a picture would help a ton.

In all honesty I just don't use them. Using a random state scrambler is easier. It sucks if you don't have one on you, but square -1 is a puzzle that allows for dumb scrambles. EDIT: I guess if you really want to hand scramble, I'd suggest scrambling it while in cube shape, and then leave...

He posted it earlier in this thread. Here is the link http://www.its.caltech.edu/~skuroyam/obl_data_numstates_1110.pdf

Race to sub-13 ROUND 72 12.09 10.03 13.30 10.12 9.93 17.10 13.05 9.03 11.21 12.50 9.30 12.34 Average of 12: 11.39s

Hopefully this is more organized. I'll use the goal you posted since it's not a bad goal to have, and for consistency. Race to sub-13 ROUND 71 1. 10.09 2. 11.25 3. 11.97 4. 13.61 5. 11.34 6. 12.09 7. (15.43) 8. 11.19 9. 12.72 10. 11.15 11. 10.94 12. (9.28) Average of 12: 11.63

I think it's fine. Square-1 is not too long of an event for 24 scrambles to be that time consuming. However, an average of 12 might be cleaner overall.

What approach is this? I have not seen it before. Is there a thread on it?

15.37, 12.79, 11.74, 20.73, 14.31, 13.21, 9.96, 14.47, 14.31, 13.21, 13.90, 13.44, 13.00, 12.80, 11.40, 14.22, 13.47, 12.91, 13.21, 12.31, 12.96, 10.65, 13.96, 9.31 avg 24: 13.11 18 had parity, yuck.

Scramble: (0, 2) / (6, -3) / (1, -2) / (5, -4) / (3, -2) / (0, -3) / (-3, -1) / (3, 0) / (1, 0) / (3, -2) / (-2, 0) / (0, -4) CS: (0,2) / (2,0) / (-3,4) / (-1,-2) / (0,-3) / CO: (1,0) / (-1,2) / EO: (4,4) / (3,0) / (3,0) / (-1,-1) / (-2,-1) / (-3,0) / CP: SKIPPED EP: (-3,4) / (3,0) / (-1,-1)...

CS: (-4,-3) / (0,1) / (-1,0) / (-3,0) / CO: (4,0) / (-3,6) / EO: (3,0) / (-1,-1) / (1,1) / (3,0) / (3,0) / (-1,-1) / (-2,1) / (-3,0) / CP: (-1,-3) / (-3,0) / (3,3) / (6,-3) / (6,0) / (3,3) EP: Skipped Next Scramble: (0, -1) / (-3, -3) / (-3, 0) / (1, -2) / (6, -3) / (0, -3) / (5, 0) / (3, 0) /...