Introducing qqTimer!

[qqwref]

Not sure why but I'm suddenly getting problems with the mzrg/qqtimer version, it runs both too fast and too slowly on some solves.

This was an April Fools joke If you highlighted everything on the page you would have seen an invisible notice on the bottom. The timer is back to normal as of now.

qqtimer was down for a bit.

This was not an April Fools joke - my entire site was down due to a chance in the internet registration system

 

[DeeDubb]

This was an April Fools joke If you highlighted everything on the page you would have seen an invisible notice on the bottom. The timer is back to normal as of now.(

Ugh... does that mean my PB is probably BS?

 

[qqwref]

It's possible. Given your speed, though, you will beat it many times if you keep cubing

 

[DeeDubb]

It's possible. Given your speed, though, you will beat it many times if you keep cubing

Haha, polite way of saying "you're too slow to be concerned with PBs"

 

[Stefan]

This was an April Fools joke

Too fast is ok I guess, but too slow is bad and not funny (cause of the invalid PBs and people not even realizing it, possibly harming forum competitions etc).

 

[qqwref]

Yeah, it probably should've been more obvious. In hindsight the invisible text at the bottom was a little *too* hard to discover.

 

[DeeDubb]

Yeah, it probably should've been more obvious. In hindsight the invisible text at the bottom was a little *too* hard to discover.

I never watch the timer when I'm solving, so I had no way of noticing it, but I'm not in seriously mad, just playfully "you got me" kind of mad It was a pretty good joke. No other "victims" have come forward yet, so maybe no harm, no foul.

 

[Stefan]

No other "victims" have come forward yet, so maybe no harm, no foul.

Or maybe it means the exact opposite, that nobody else has realized the wrongness and thus maybe lots of harm, lots of foul.

 

[DeeDubb]

Or maybe it means the exact opposite, that nobody else has realized the wrongness and thus maybe lots of harm, lots of foul.

Hmm. Possible. I just checked the Unofficial Solves Video section. Only Yoshi had a PB up from April 1st, and his time was accurate (checked vs. a stopwatch). There were a bunch of PBs set and posted in the Accomplishment Thread. I wonder if there needs to be an announcement in there.

(also, it's an honor talking to the guy that invented the method I use for 3BLD )

 

[MWilson]

Maybe it's too elaborate but a good one would be having the timer run 10-25% slower to have it look like a faster time. Then, a couple seconds after the solve is done and the solver is scrambling and/or celebrating, change the time to what it should have been and stream this in the background. Then set a cookie or something to not have it happen again for at least 30 minutes.

 

[Tim Major]

I did about 450 solves on qqtimer.net over the past few days. I got a PB ao100 and ao50, and now I'm not sure if they were legit. They were very slight PBs, how much slower/faster was it running?

 

[qqwref]

It was randomly chosen for each solve. I don't know how consistent you are, Tim, but if you weren't getting some unreasonably bad and unreasonably good solves (like, think regular 8s and 16s if you average 12, without them feeling better or worse than normal) then you probably weren't using the April Fools version. This was only on the qqtimer from mzrg.com, by the way.

 

[Tim Major]

I was using qqtimer.net so I should be in the clear sweet.

I agree with Stefan. Speeding up the timer is a good April fools joke, but slowing it down could screw with PBs and online comps. Good idea though

 

[DeeDubb]

It was randomly chosen for each solve. I don't know how consistent you are, Tim, but if you weren't getting some unreasonably bad and unreasonably good solves (like, think regular 8s and 16s if you average 12, without them feeling better or worse than normal) then you probably weren't using the April Fools version. This was only on the qqtimer from mzrg.com, by the way.

Oh snap. I was using qqtimer.net too... Phew, looks like I'm in the clear!

 

[Tim Major]

Hey. Been using qqtimer.net/mobile and it's great, only issue is timer starts for any click. So if I tried to delete a time, add a penalty etc the timer starts. Could you make the timer start after holding for 1.5s or something? Or is this already an option I've missed like when I asked for ao50

Thanks.

 

[kcl]

Hey. Been using qqtimer.net/mobile and it's great, only issue is timer starts for any click. So if I tried to delete a time, add a penalty etc the timer starts. Could you make the timer start after holding for 1.5s or something? Or is this already an option I've missed like when I asked for ao50

Thanks.

Just fyi if you're open to cstimer, go to the site on mobile and it works like that.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

qqtimer not working?

Just within the past day or two, the timer at http://www.qqtimer.net started having problems. It now longer allows the timer to be started. Also, unless you manually choose "3x3 old style" then you will not get a 3x3 scramble. Should I be using something else? I want dependable scrambles and I also want blindfold mode. I would also like to alter colors and text sizes.

Also, in BLD mode, I used to get 2 solve times per line like,
6:28.73[3:30.09], 7:53.72[4:07.00],
but several months ago it started only listing one time per line.

There is no help or mechanism to report bugs to the originator. I work on MacOS.

 

[obelisk477]

the originator

this is how i will be referring to qq from now on

 

[JeffDelucia]

www.mzrg.com/qqtimer its more up to date

 

[TDM]

3x3 scrambles are working for me. It has BLD mode, and you can adjust colours and scramble/timer sizes in the options. Does it really matter that much if it can't fit as many times onto one line? Also, what are "dependable scrambles"?
But if you want to contact the originator, you can find his profile here, and PM him.

(but yeah, like JeffDelucia said, use the version on his own website)

this is how i will be referring to qq from now on

I've already started