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    Sub 1 tutorial: How to solve a skewb

    The U-perm will put the front center to the back, the back center to the top, and the top center to the front.
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    Dixon Summer 2014

    I'll be there as my first competition, I'm looking forward to the morning!
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    [Help Thread] OLL and PLL Discussion

    Yes you will still need to do a U or U' in some instances, but how will you know which to do if you don't recognize the case?
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    Should we remove at least one of the 3 big BLD events? (4x4, 5x5, multi BLD)

    Multi-BLD seems like the best candidate. There isn't any other multi event, and all that it adds is testing how much someone can remember. At least 4/5BLD require different solving methods.
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    Blindfold Accomplishment Thread

    Learning BLD for the first time, tried for two times and ended up with a basically scrambled cube. Third time I did the whole thing right except for the final corner, which I memo'd wrong at the beginning, and I ended up with a completely solved cube except for my buffer and final corner twisted...
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    Should 3x3x3 With Feet Remain an Official WCA Event?

    I'm not familiar with feet events, however reading through this thread it seems like the main points against it seem to be negative image and grossness. Negative image is just that, an imaging issue. If the media views it negatively, the two big solutions are to remove it or to work on changing...
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    The Ideal Solution (No, really, that's its name)

    I've heard media likes to use numbers more easily understood by the people. They probably felt that "3 billion" would sound larger than the actual figure to most people due to it being more familiar as a large number.
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    Is an infinite scramble really "random"?

    So there is no number N where applying exactly N random moves to the cube will result in each case having the exact same distribution? How does that proof go?
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    Proposal: Video Evidence Should NOT be used to overturn official records

    Was there an explanation given for why it was overturned?
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    Easy / Lucky / Funny / Hard / Weird scrambles thread

    I've never had a 3x3 scramble in Prisma where the front half of the scramble was outside the set <U,D,R2,F2,L2,B2>, something must have really messed up internally for that to have happened.
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    Breaking sub-30 on 3x3

    I have a fairly large spread at times too, I consider myself sub-25 but I will occasionally have two solves in a row over thirty seconds. Often when I do it's because I pause for a while finding the next f2l pair (caused by not knowing how to blindly insert the previous, so my look ahead is...
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    New 2015 WCA Regulations (Effective July 1, 2015)

    I would be interested in seeing what came to your mind for the definition. After only brief thought on it, I would figure that things like shape (perfect cube vs. partially rounded for the pillowed), material (uniform/multicolor, opacity), and coverings (stickers, tiles, logos [or colors in...
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    New 2015 WCA Regulations (Effective July 1, 2015)

    I feel like a different approach to this whole situation could just be to well-define what a rubik's cube is (and the other puzzles that make up WCA events). The purpose of competing is to see how quickly you can solve a rubik's cube. The specific one you have shouldn't make a difference in the...
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    Twisted Corner in Competition?

    I feel like this raises really good points. When pops were common, the rule was (and still is) if there is a popped piece at the end of the solve, it is a DNF (to an extent, I understand there are cases where if the piece is only able to be put back in one way and then it is considered solved)...
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    Twisted Corner in Competition?

    What do you think about an unnoticed accidental corner twist during a PLL, where the competitor stops the clock with a corner twisted?
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