Hssandwich
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I can't find any videos of the solve.
I can't find any videos of the solve.
Ross The Boss
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I have an idea for April Fools day that I hope qqwref or someone pulls someday. Someone who wrote and can edit a popular cube timer.
Rig the timer so that it runs slower than it should. Make the timer count .8 or .9 for every full second for the day. Enough to significantly improve times, but not so fast that people notice that the timer is counting incorrectly. Everybody will think they're breaking their average PBs and flip out over being 10-20% faster overnight. Then, the next day, let the forum know what you did, and that they weren't actually faster than usual.
I don't know how easy programming a timer to do that is, or whether Michael or anyone else would be mean enough to do this to the rest of us.
speaking as someone who has over 3000 times logged on qqtimer and is trying to track progression over 5000 solves (i didnt know that prisma was a thing untill i was already 2500 solves deep), i say that this would be pretty high up on the list of unfunny and asshatish pranks.
JemFish
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That may be very true. Just imagine Jessica Fridrich sitting there working out these OLLs and PLLs without the help of a computer. *ugh*
tseitsei
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Yeah. I totally agree with stefan here. That would just be idiotic idea to alter some popular timer used by so many speedcubers around the world... As already stated by stefan and rossthecuber people use trusted timers (like qqtimer) to participate in forum competitons and keep track of PBs so messing with them is very *********g stupid imo...
DeeDubb
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I have an idea for April Fools day that I hope qqwref or someone pulls someday. Someone who wrote and can edit a popular cube timer.
Rig the timer so that it runs slower than it should. Make the timer count .8 or .9 for every full second for the day. Enough to significantly improve times, but not so fast that people notice that the timer is counting incorrectly. Everybody will think they're breaking their average PBs and flip out over being 10-20% faster overnight. Then, the next day, let the forum know what you did, and that they weren't actually faster than usual.
I don't know how easy programming a timer to do that is, or whether Michael or anyone else would be mean enough to do this to the rest of us.
qqref did it last year[/quote], I remember getting angry because I thought my 27 second PB (lol) was not legit.
bobthegiraffemonkey
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Ideas I've been thinking about for 4x4 parity:
First of all, I'm dealing with cases with OLL parity, and want to do at most 1 parity alg and 2 looks to finish regardless of whether or not there is PLL parity too, without influencing the LL in F2L. CLL + (OLL parity ELL) has some good potential, I need to work on ELL recog but I think it works well. I've also considered, instead of solving CLL, 'solve' to the CLL case which you get by doing a standard non-pure OLL parity (bar-bar U? setup with F R2 D R' U R D' R2' U' F'). Then, you can 1-look 2-alg the rest, possibly with some tricks to make stuff nicer. Don't know much about recog for this yet, but it could work and the solutions should be good on average.
Also, there may be more ideas to use with this. For example, no-swap H (doublesune) cases can always be solved to L3E using only doublesune or inverse and/or mirror, using the fact that there's always at least 1 oriented edge. There's also the following tricks for diag oriented (A6)
[R U R' F' : l' U2 l' U2 l U2 l' U2 r U2' l' U2 l U2' (r' l2') U2 l]
R' (F2 x) l2' U2 l U2 l' U2 l U2' (B2 x2') r U2 r U2' (r' l') U2 R
My strange choice of parity alg executions aside, thoughts?
First of all, I'm dealing with cases with OLL parity, and want to do at most 1 parity alg and 2 looks to finish regardless of whether or not there is PLL parity too, without influencing the LL in F2L. CLL + (OLL parity ELL) has some good potential, I need to work on ELL recog but I think it works well. I've also considered, instead of solving CLL, 'solve' to the CLL case which you get by doing a standard non-pure OLL parity (bar-bar U? setup with F R2 D R' U R D' R2' U' F'). Then, you can 1-look 2-alg the rest, possibly with some tricks to make stuff nicer. Don't know much about recog for this yet, but it could work and the solutions should be good on average.
Also, there may be more ideas to use with this. For example, no-swap H (doublesune) cases can always be solved to L3E using only doublesune or inverse and/or mirror, using the fact that there's always at least 1 oriented edge. There's also the following tricks for diag oriented (A6)
[R U R' F' : l' U2 l' U2 l U2 l' U2 r U2' l' U2 l U2' (r' l2') U2 l]
R' (F2 x) l2' U2 l U2 l' U2 l U2' (B2 x2') r U2 r U2' (r' l') U2 R
My strange choice of parity alg executions aside, thoughts?
mark49152
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I know that 2-gen algs cannot affect CP. Why is that? What's the theory behind it, and is there a simple explanation?
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Perfect, thanks!
TDM
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Berd
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CubeCow
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TDM
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Psyph3r
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It's thos damn cube ghosts again.
DeeDubb
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yu da hyeon breaks her wr single. Average isn't looking good.
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guysensei1
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What's the fastest sub-x for all OH PLLs?
There are a few 'all sub-3' videos on YouTube. I vaguely recall a 'all sub-2' somewhere but I can't find it.
There are a few 'all sub-3' videos on YouTube. I vaguely recall a 'all sub-2' somewhere but I can't find it.
joshsailscga
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Random thought...imagine if Rami had gotten the Riley Woo misscramble last year...his neighbors would still be deaf
cmhardw
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Katie and I were on campus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison at the Dairy store. The school's dairy department makes ice cream, milk, cheese and sells them to the community on campus via this store. While eating ice cream there, we saw a class of middle school students who were there on a field trip. There was a group of about five of them who had a whole bunch of Rubik's puzzles. Katie and I introduced ourselves as also being cubers and chatted with them for a little bit. Small world to meet a bunch of cubers like that! It was very neat 
guysensei1
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Katie and I were on campus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison at the Dairy store. The school's dairy department makes ice cream, milk, cheese and sells them to the community on campus via this store. While eating ice cream there, we saw a class of middle school students who were there on a field trip. There was a group of about five of them who had a whole bunch of Rubik's puzzles. Katie and I introduced ourselves as also being cubers and chatted with them for a little bit. Small world to meet a bunch of cubers like that! It was very neat
Nice! I see a few cubers now and then but I never dare to talk to them...
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