Online Rubik's Timer Better Than Ever

[cubetimer]

I've made several updates to my online rubik's cube timer since my last post. There's a scramble generator, multiple puzzle support, countdown timer with sound...

I'll be honest, I mostly do this because I find it useful for myself, but I'm glad so many other people enjoy it, too. I hope to add more features in the future


Give it a try!

Dan
http://www.cubetimer.com/

 

[Johannes91]

Math.round(Math.random() * 2)

That gives a bad distribution (1/4, 2/4, 1/4). Use Math.floor(Math.random() * 3).

 

[Joël]

Wow.. that's a nice timer! Good job!

 

[pjk]

Very nice. Is there any chance that when you press the space that it stops the timer as opposed to releasing it to stop it?

 

[cubetimer]

Johannes91 - Thanks for catching that. I've fixed it to use floor now. I have to admit that when I was using it, it did feel like there were too many counter clockwise turns in the scrambles.

pjk - good suggestion, I'll have to work on that. Currently it acts on release so that you can place your hands on the spacebar and release when you're ready to solve, as with a Stackmat timer. You're right though, it really should stop when your hands come back down. I'll try and carve out some time to work on that.

Glad you guys like the new features!!

 

[pjk]

Would it be possible to have to release to start, but stop when pressed? Also, another suggestion would be to have a "Save Times" button where the user can save all their times/avg's. Good work.

 

[cubetimer]

PJK: yeah, that's exactly what I meant to say. As for saving times, that's a commonly requested feature I'll eventually get to, as well. I want to have the ability to create logins so members can use multiple computers, or shared computers, etc. My list of desires for the site unfortunately outweigh my available time to actually implement them

 

[SkateTracker]

Awesome timer! I love it. Nice job.

 

[Lotsofsloths]

Forget Jnet
Lol, this is amazing

 

[cubetimer]

Thanks guys - so glad you like

 

[vlarsen]

I like this a lot. One thing that might be nice, would be a built in scrambler for each puzzle. This would take a lot, but it seems awkward to get a new 3x3x3 scramble everytime I do a Square-1 solve. Maybe you can at least disable the scrambler for the puzzle that it doesn't work for?

 

[cubetimer]

Yeah - good call. It's not realistic for me right now to write scramblers for other cube puzzle types, but I should definitely remove the scrambler when it's not a 3x3. Thanks!