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Contrary to popular belief, cubing ≠ speedcubing. I don't think I mentioned anywhere at any time that my "cubing contributions" are speedcubing contributions. (I had an OLL times table and COLL times table threads when I first joined, but that's it AFAIK.) I think it's pretty clear that...

I do admit that the more I observed how people are (in general) over the years, the less motivation (and sense of "urgency") I found myself having to share some really interesting things with this world. (Various things, not just cubing stuff.) And learning the hard truths that many people...

I'm aware that there have been several replies to this thread already, but because it was a highly liked answer, maybe see my post on rcubers explaining why we can't swap just 2 corners (or just 2 edges) on a 3x3x3. And if you like how I explain things, perhaps you would like An Unabridged...

To me, none of this (even the first video) is "suspicious". It's just Tony has put unnecessary pressure on himself to get his puzzle turning. (Giving yourself a 7 day deadline to do something that could take easily 3 times as long is an unfortunate situation to put yourself in!) I don't think...

I'm not sure what the date "January 2014" in the bottom margin of that paper means, but I may have been the first to prove it (unless someone else proved it before then and didn't announce it or publish it online somewhere before), even if the proof was written in January of 2014 and not...

Yeah, this process is called decomposition. It can sometimes lead to understanding, but as you mentioned, it has its problems. For example, when I decomposed all popular (at the time, at least) 2-cycle PLLs that were on the PLL speedsolving wiki page (Thread), it really didn't help to...

Good catch, Ben! Both of those are commutators. R U R' F' L' U' L F = [R U R', F' L' R'] R U2 R' U2 R' F R F' = [R U2 R' U2 R, F U2 R']

Semi-commutators (X Y Z X' Y' Z') is another structure, at least for big cube center algorithms. (Page 5 of this PDF.)

Just an FYI for those who want an easy way to make a centers-only or edges-only scramble on an nxnxn cube, I provided easy instructions on how to make them (and be with any types of moves you like and however long you like).

The other issue is, viewing the forums when you are not signed in, non-members viewing the forums to decide if they want to become a member, etc. But yes, that may be a more realistic way to not interfere with "the will of the administrators and mods" (than to stop them all from being displayed...

It doesn't mean that the threads won't exist anywhere. It just means that those who wish view them will have to go to a specific place to see them. (So that everyone isn't forced to see every update.) And I wouldn't "worry" about any of this, if I were you. It's doubtful that the...

There is a way for threads to not show up on the front page. How mature . . . And no offense, but personally being a member who joined this forum in year 2024 will not understand what it was like here 14+ years ago. And that's what we're talking about.

I'm not around that often to know what "petty arguments" means, but yeah, these forums have changed since the time period that you and I joined. Maybe around 2014 is when this new "era" started to escalate? In fact, I expressed a similar sentiment in the second main bullet point of this recent...

I'm surprised that they didn't explain what Single and Average means. (It's not a speedsolving wiki page, where everyone knows what that means . . . maybe they can guess what Single means, but Average?)

No, it doesn't. My reasoning implied that, even if you began working on this 4 years ago, development of cubedb.net had to begin earlier than yours did, in order to publish the same time that you began development. How would you feel if it was the reverse? You would have made this post 4...

But if it's unnecessary, why do it? It says here that 2 weeks from now will be exactly 4 years since the domain was registered. (This thread anouncing (releasing it) was posted 7 days after the domain was registered.) So yes, it was published (not just started development) just about exactly...

There's an existing app with the same name. (Kindly change the name to something else to prevent confusion!)

I know your secret! Megaminx - Flips and Twists - Pure Superflip :) (For those who didn't know of Tom's work in this area, here's the bottom-most algorithm listed on that page animated at alpha.twizzle!)

Wrong link? (That's looks like the documentation page of Michael's applet.) But if you're talking about the applet shown on this page, it looks familiar. (But I didn't recognize or ever knew the name, Rubik Unbound.) But I don't know why you are asking me about web applets, as I was talking...

That's a nice little quiz you have there. (But two of the questions were about the same thing, so maybe one of them can be replaced with another?) Got 9/10. (Guessed on 2 questions, got one right, one wrong.)