Pattern Solving

[TimMc]

Does anyone have competitions where you take a scrambled 3x3x3 and have to produce a certain pattern in the shortest amount of time?

 

[AvGalen]

We tried doing this once at a cube meeting. We scrambled 1 cube and put it on a glass so every face was visible. All cubers stood around the cube+glass and had to reproduce the scrambled cube. Most got it in about 3 minutes and I think 1 minute is perfectly possible with very little practice (25 attempts)

I don't know any online competition that has this, but there was some talk of Kai organizing a "fun events" competition on this forum.

 

[doubleyou]

thats crazy!
hah, then you had to start from a solved cube right?

I could never do that either way

 

[TimMc]

Starting from a solved cube is far easier but if you start from a scrambled state then you're speed solving comes into play more so.

I guess you could go from:
Scrambled -> Solved -> Pattern ; slow
Scrambled -> Pattern ; moderate
Solved -> Pattern ; fast