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It wasn't time management; he aborted the attempts because nature called.

ynnnynnyyynnnnnyny, so 7/18? My natural thought process is somewhat visual, but I don't trust it one bit and will use formal logical reasoning (which I guess counts as "verbal"?) when necessary. I also don't trust it when it comes to cubing, and instead rely on pattern matching and (verbal)...

I have UWR for this meme event, for some reason. It's a silly idea, don't do it. It also absolutely would not make any sense whatsoever as an official event, or even as an unofficial event to hold at a competition (the way that e.g. teamblind or FTO etc. are held currently). Notation is...

OPA is basically standard for 4FMC (and big cube FMC), and can be done very quickly with access to the scramble sequence. No need to be fast at cycle tracing. Main reason that 4FMC has a much longer time limit (2.5 hours in the old forum weekly comp before it was removed, iirc) or even no time...

Feet got removed two years after the format changed from mean-of-3 to average-of-5. Clonk is not safe. (I mean it is – nobody expects any event to be removed in the near future – but not for your stated reason.)

If, like me, you have butter fingers and can't trust yourself to correctly apply glue on tiny pieces without getting it everywhere: 1. Take out an outer x-centre cap (the others don't pop, at least for me). 2. Stuff a tiny ball of Blu Tack into the central hole on the primary plastic part. (The...

Most WV cases need 7+ moves and most PLLs need 10+ moves, so something doesn't add up here… Best of luck with your arithmetic-defying endeavours!

Imagine liking to breathe oxygen. Literally burning your innards. I do it out of necessity, not out of preference.

This is pretty much why I gave up on competitive speedcubing. I don't harbour hopes of becoming world-class, or even being competitive at local comps. Years of evidence point to those being impossible for me. At least I still have fun cubing, and from time to time I randomly start breaking PBs...

You're right! Some of the numbers in my older post are wrong because I forgot to account for commuting moves. The orders of magnitude involved are still roughly the same, though, so the qualitative result (that small subgroups have greatly boosted probability) isn't affected. (I'll get around to...

This is probably not true. On big puzzles, there's what I call the "small subgroup problem". You could end up having a scramble sequence that never uses some of the moves (e.g. a 5×5×5 scramble seq that is all wide moves or all outer-layer moves), causing the puzzle permutations to lie in a...

If you haven't found anything good 45 minutes in, write out any kind of solution (could be CFOP, as you say) and then use the remaining time to check it. You might also want to figure out why you're DNFing and then work on that. Are you writing down the moves incorrectly, are you running out of...

Then he should have requested for an extra solve immediately, at the time of the incident. Which he did not. Competitors should not be penalised for mistakes outside of their control; this much I agree with. What I don't agree with is that competitors should be able to exploit...

He deleted his previous account.

This is such a bizarre response. I don't care about 2×2×2. Whether it's Yiheng or Zayn or whoever else who gets the record, cool, good for them? A sub-1 average would be impressive if it was obtained legitimately. Yiheng got his in a way that (pretty much) doubled his chances at WR; do you...

I hope it does happen, tbh. There's a recurring pattern of top Chinese cubers selectively choosing to ask for extras to farm for records, which is a clear violation of sportsmanship. (But should the extra be revoked (I do not have faith that WCA will make the right decision here), the original...

Magnets were never banned, though.

I think I've seen Anyu use the inverse of this for big cubes. (Or maybe it was a different RUF alg.) … That's just two U perms. You can actually do the two U perms in a way that cancel a lot of moves: (M2 U M U2 M' U M2) (M2 U' M' U2 M U' M2) = M2 U M U2 M2 U2 M U M2

Jokes are supposed to be funny. Maybe the age limit should be raised to 25 years.

Reproducing here for posterity, since Yahoo Groups is die. (Source: Internet Archive.) I am NOT a statastician, but I do have a strong math background. If you notice any errors in my reasoning or methodology, please tell me. After busting out the stats book and talking to some of the smart...