Prisma Puzzle Timer

[FatBoyXPC]

Walter, awesome work! Will that be in the next release then? Since I suggested it, could I get a pre-release if we have to wait until then? I think being able to find good x-cross solutions would certainly help out some F2L's, especially for me. I know that when I've already got a preserved pair, my F2L time drops significantly for me (sometimes up to 2s, if it's preserved in an easy 3 move insert state).

MaeLSTRoM: You could use StefanPochmann's way of not hitting any other keys. He used cardboard with some cutouts to go over the right keys. Check out his youtube to see what I mean.

 

[Johannes91]

I quickly hacked together an optimal X-cross solver and it works better than I expected! The average length seems to be around 7.36 moves (HTM). Here is the distribution found after solving 100000 cubes:

3: 11
4: 98
5: 1168
6: 9213
7: 43253
8: 44840
9: 1417

My results from a while back agree. I got an average of ~7.354 and this distribution:

Spoiler

distribution:
0: 20
1: 441
2: 5044
3: 56557
4: 624256
5: 6206267
6: 50307192
7: 232710047
8: 239188357
9: 7772726
10: 5


    you     me
0:          0.000
1:          0.000
2:          0.000
3:  0.011   0.011
4:  0.098   0.116
5:  1.168   1.156
6:  9.213   9.370
7: 43.253  43.346
8: 44.840  44.552
9:  1.417   1.448
10:         0.000

 

[Someone755]

One question:
How do you extract a .jar file?
Two question:
What do you do after extraction?
I already extracted the thing, but what now????

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

You Don't just double click on the .jar and it should run.

 

[Someone755]

Yeah, CMD opens for less than 0,5 seconds and then everything is as it shouldn't be! (Everything is fine, but the timer won't work!)

 

[RubikZz]

Prisma puzzle timer says to me that he has started but it is not.
Which process should I close?

 

[EnterPseudonym]

javaw.exe

 

[RubikZz]

I don't have that process.
And it says:
Couldn't connect to database. Isn't Prisma Puzzle Timer already running?

 

[Someone755]

It says to me: Could not find 'directory where file is saved'. Process will now close.

 

[RubikZz]

I got by version .0.4 the whole thime errors, but since yesterday is will not start.
See post above.

 

[Someone755]

I download and save the file. Then I open it with javaw.exe. Then a window pops out and it says:
"Could not find the main class:
C:\Users\Pajnik_BeguĹ`\Downloads\PrismaPuzzleTimer0.4.jar.
Program will exit."

What am I doing wrong?

 

[FatBoyXPC]

You don't need to open it with javaw.exe. Just double click on the .jar file.

 

[Someone755]

That's the problem!
I don't know what to open it with!

 

[FatBoyXPC]

Explain better what you mean. Does it say something about the filetype not being associated with any programs? If so, scroll down the list until you find java, don't manually put javaw.exe.

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

The Mouse! make sure you have JRE on your computer though.

 

[Erik]

By the way: I just realized I am missing a 'reset session' button. To erase the session I now first have to go to the history and select the last times I want to erase...

 

[stufkan]

I would want the staticstics to tell how many solves they span over. Both in the summary and the history.

Just like :
Rubik's cube 100/100
27-02-2011 21:35:14 - 21:43:17

Mean: xx.xx
Standard deviation: xx.xx


And in the history like
Statistics (10000000 solves)

or something like that
:tu

 

[Tall5001]

By the way: I just realized I am missing a 'reset session' button. To erase the session I now first have to go to the history and select the last times I want to erase...

If you erase them from the history then you will never be able to find them again that deletes it from the records. If you want a new session just select a new Categoy and then go back to the 3x3 or whatever you were doing or you can press the red X by the time in the bottom left corner and it will delete if from the history instead of going into history to delete them.

 

[RubikZz]

I got today with "PLL Training" a PLL skip, one time I got nothing en one time 'U2' en one time 'U'".
I was when I push 160 times on the spacebar, to get it on paper to train without the computer on table with stackmat.
It is whit version 0.4 en also with version 0.31.
And when comes the new version.

One thing i find stupid, that is if I used "DNF" then is "Mean (of all)" and "Mean of 100" than is it "DNF", also if I used it one.

Sorry for bad English.

 

[clemon79]

Okay, I have some information about the issues with using the Stackmat timer. I'm hoping maybe it's useful for someone.

I have two machines, one Win7 on my desk, and one Vista laptop. Until tonight I could get it to work MAYBE one single triggering on the Win7 machine, then it wouldn't work. Vista machine is fine.

(Also, my cable setup: standard 6" male-to-male 3.5mm stereo cable, plus a 3.5-to-2.5 stereo adapter. I know I said in another thread that the output of the timer is mono, but I figured at least this way if it didn't work I had a useful audio patch cable.)

I now have it working reliably on both machines, and here's why: it appears Prisma is only listening to the left channel of audio. The wiring on my front mic input on my PC is borked; when I would record in GoldWave, the timer signal was coming out of the right channel, and on Vista, it was coming out of the left. I plug the timer into the rear mic port, blammo, the timer signal is now in the left channel, everything is fine. Since my case is an older one where you connect up the wires to the motherboard individually instead of the standard header most PC cases use these days, I either crossed them up or plugged one into the wrong place. I'll have to pop it open and look at the connections.

Anyhow, anyone who is still having Stackmat issues, is using a stereo patch cable, and can verify hearing the timer signals, record it in Audacity or GoldWave or whatever stereo sound recorder you can lay your hands on, and make certain the actual timer signal is coming across on the left channel. If it isn't you might have a wiring issue someplace.

(Walter, you might also think about, if this is easy for you to implement, adding another Options setting allowing the user to pick the left or right channel to listen for the signal on.)