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Is this scramble lucky or easy/ or both?

Is this scrambe -


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Tim Major

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I want to change my vote to none of the above. Can you please explain what you don't understand? You keep making these threads, but you don't seem to get it. Any skipped step, that has less than 20% chance of skipping, and is skipped, is a lucky solve, unless the solver has purposely skipped it, using a different solution to what he would normally do. Or, if s/he managed to make the chance of a skip more likely, and above 20%. Is this 4 move solution a face with a ll skip? if so, it's lucky, as an ll skip is less than 20% chance of happening. However, if the solver use WV to get an OLL skip, and a pll skip is more than 20% likely (I'm not sure of a PLL skip on a 2x2's chances) it is considered non-lucky.
 

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LUCK PAYS A MASSIVE PART IN SPEEDCUBING, ESPECIALLY 2X2. A 4 MOVE SCRAMBLE CAN BE CONSIDERED LUCKY, BUT A FAST SOLVE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED LUCKY. THE MISTAKE YOU MADE IN THE FIRST THREAD WAS TO ASSUME THAT EVERY SOLVE ON THE LIST WAS A LUCKY SOLVE, AND THEN YOU FOUGHT THAT COMPLETELY FALSE FACT FOR THE ENTIRE THREAD. AS DAVID HAS ALREADY SAID, ROWE DOESN'T AVERAGE <2 SECONDS BUT HE IS PERFECTLY CAPAPBLE OF DOING THAT IN A GOOD, NON LUCKY SOLVE.

NOW QUITE WHINING
 

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reThinking, do we really need three whole threads on lucky 2x2 scrambles? Keep the discussion in one thread, please.
 

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Is everyone up in arms about a WR being considered "lucky", because they think this is a bad thing, and that it somehow illegitimizes the solve as not really an official WR? I haven't read rethinking_the_cube's other thread(s) on this topic, but I would have to say that in my opinion a scramble with a 4 move solution is definitely a lucky scramble, making the solve definitely a lucky solve if the person saw the 4 move solution. However, this would still, assuming it was fast enough, be the completely legitimate WR despite the fact that it was lucky.

Is this what we're all arguing about? Or am I missing something here? To paraphrase Erik why does getting lucky on a solve have to be a bad thing? That's how it seems to me that people are reacting to this idea in this thread.

Chris
 
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