Changes to the Weekly Competition website

I finally got around to looking at the profile pages, and it's great!
I do notice that I have (at least) two 3x3 times which may have been copied over incorrectly; 22:02.00 I'm guessing was supposed to be 22.02 in 2011-31, for example. (Edit: My 5x5 single in 2011-21 can't possibly be right.)
I think this might have been mentioned earlier, but there are no comments/solutions for the FMC submissions back in 2010/2011. I guess it would be too much work to get those into the database?
(Side note: I knew I did 4x4 BLD back in 2010 a few times, but I had no idea it was up to 55 minutes!)
 
Thanks! We'll take a look at those entries and fix the ones that make sense to fix.

As for the FMC submissions without comments and solutions, it's my hope that we will go back and do them one day; I have an idea for a tool that would make it easier to do that eventually, but it may be a little while before I get that done - still a lot of more important work to do on the site first. So give us time - hopefully eventually we'll have even more of that history in there.
 
I think the kinch score should only include events that are currently held every week.
Also a server ranking for the kinch score would be nice.
And I also think an optional FMC mean would be nice.
 
You're correct; the Kinch score should only include the events currently held on a given week, and the overall Kinch score for a user should be based only on currently active events. I believe I have corrected the calculations to do this now.

A sitewide Kinch ranking would be nice; as I explained before, it was computationally prohibitive to do so until I performed some preprocessing. But I am getting close on that now and should hopefully be able to add it fairly soon. Hopefully I can get that in sometime in the next few weeks.

I am tentatively planning to add an FMC mean at the beginning of 2019; it's too messy to change the format in mid-year. But since it is common now to do FMC means in official WCA competitions, I think we should have them here too, so I would like to add this for next year.
 
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VDel_234_ said:
I have a suggestion for the Timer (Weekly View) page:

If the devs are able, to put in a "Draw Scramble" feature like in CSTimer. I think it would make the end scrambles more accurate because it shows how the puzzle should look at the end of the scramble.
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Thanks for the suggestion. It has not been suggested before, but it was already on my personal list of things I want to do for the website. I must admit that it's fairly low on the list, though - I have a number of other improvements that need to be done first.

But yes, I think it is a great suggestion!
 
I hate to post on an old thread, but figured it was better than starting a new one on the same topic. I have the same problem as the OP, but there is no "Remember Me" option when I log in. I am using my phone and it gets tedious to have to log in again, each time I go to submit times. I see the same issue using Chrome on Android (phone) and Windows (PC) - not using incognito, cookies enabled, javascript allowed... any thoughts?
 
GTregay said:
I hate to post on an old thread, but figured it was better than starting a new one on the same topic. I have the same problem as the OP, but there is no "Remember Me" option when I log in. I am using my phone and it gets tedious to have to log in again, each time I go to submit times. I see the same issue using Chrome on Android (phone) and Windows (PC) - not using incognito, cookies enabled, javascript allowed... any thoughts?
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There should be a "Keep me logged in" button around where you enter your password.

Actually, that's for desktop, I don't know about mobile.
 
We might consider adding new events at the beginning of 2019. I am sure we will make FMC include 3 scrambles per week next year; not sure if it will be best of 3 or mean of 3. I'm leaning towards mean of 3.

For other puzzles, I'm leaning towards having a poll and basing the decision on that, but I will definitely wait until later in the year for that.

It is much easier on the statistics to make changes to the competition on year changes, so I'd rather wait until then to make changes.
 
Mike Hughey said:
We might consider adding new events at the beginning of 2019. I am sure we will make FMC include 3 scrambles per week next year; not sure if it will be best of 3 or mean of 3. I'm leaning towards mean of 3.

For other puzzles, I'm leaning towards having a poll and basing the decision on that, but I will definitely wait until later in the year for that.

It is much easier on the statistics to make changes to the competition on year changes, so I'd rather wait until then to make changes.
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Awww.... I dont want to wait over 1/2 a year.
 
Mike Hughey said:
I am sure we will make FMC include 3 scrambles per week next year; not sure if it will be best of 3 or mean of 3. I'm leaning towards mean of 3.
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If you did mean, then people who had 3 correct solutions would be ranked first, and somebody with 1 or 2 would still count as more than DNF, right? For me it's rare that I get an hour that I'm reasonably certain I won't be interrupted. 3 times in a week would be highly unlikely.
 
One Wheel said:
If you did mean, then people who had 3 correct solutions would be ranked first, and somebody with 1 or 2 would still count as more than DNF, right? For me it's rare that I get an hour that I'm reasonably certain I won't be interrupted. 3 times in a week would be highly unlikely.
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That is correct, and is my justification for leaning towards using a mean - at least those who do a single solve get a valid result and will be ranked accordingly among those who did less than 3 successful attempts. Those without a successful mean (whether due to only doing 1 or 2 solves, or due to a DNF or two) would be ranked among themselves based on best single. Exactly as happens in official WCA competitions with 3 FMC attempts today.

One guiding principle for the events in our competition here is to always have at least as much participation opportunity in each event as is possible in a single round of an official competition. With the introduction of official means of 3 for FMC, we became glaringly lacking on FMC opportunity. So I'd like to fix that.
 
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