Random Cubing Discussion

I was about to post a "[WR] Maskow - 45/45 MBLD (57:24)" as a hoax for April Fools, but thought better just in case anyone got offended (somehow), or if the administrators didn't like it.
 
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. :D

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. :P
 
IRNjuggle28 said:
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. :D

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. :P
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I feel like he might have done this before. I might be completely wrong though.
 
As of April the 1st, 2015, there have been 37 024 people who have officially solved a Rubik's Cube, and only 1 person (Zoe Orphanides from Cyprus) took more than 10 minutes to solve one.

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And she is ranked no. 2 in Cyprus for her single.
 
(Not April Fools) I wonder if I'm one of the oldest cubers to get an official 10.xx 3x3 average. I'll probably get a sub-10 eventually if I keep cubing, but yeah, 10 will do for now :p

IRNjuggle28 said:
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. :D
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Last year for April Fools I set qqtimer to run at a *random* speed from 0.6x to 1.4x. It would choose it when you loaded up the page, and then stay that way. So some people got a faster timer, some people got a slower one... hehe ;)
 
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qqwref said:
Last year for April Fools I set qqtimer to run at a *random* speed from 0.6x to 1.4x. It would choose it when you loaded up the page, and then stay that way. So some people got a faster timer, some people got a slower one... hehe ;)
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i keep a document of all my PBs...
you just made me check if i ever broke a PB on april 1st =.=
and turns out no i didn't, which is awesome

i probably got the 1.4x
 
qqwref said:
Last year for April Fools I set qqtimer to run at a *random* speed from 0.6x to 1.4x. It would choose it when you loaded up the page, and then stay that way. So some people got a faster timer, some people got a slower one... hehe ;)
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Oh wonderful. Glad you thought of it; that's too good a prank to never pull. It's obnoxiously wonderful. Too bad I (apparently) didn't use qqtimer that day!
 
JemFish said:
only 1 person (Zoe Orphanides from Cyprus) took more than 10 minutes to solve one.
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False.

IRNjuggle28 said:
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.
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That's an ******* idea because it hurts credibility in cubing. Think of forum competitions, record lists, etc not being valid. Not cool.
 
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My question, and i don't mean to be elitist, is how can you actually only be able to solve in 10 minutes. What method is there that takes you 10 minutes to do a 3x3. The only one that I can think of is not a method but rather a person who doesn't know how to solve the cube in any way other than massive iteration or even more intriguing a person who doesn't know a method but rather is intelligent enough to solve the cube while sitting in front of a timer without a method.

Maybe the 10 minute solvers are actually the smartest among us.
 
Psyph3r said:
My question, and i don't mean to be elitist, is how can you actually only be able to solve in 10 minutes. What method is there that takes you 10 minutes to do a 3x3. The only one that I can think of is not a method but rather a person who doesn't know how to solve the cube in any way other than massive iteration or even more intriguing a person who doesn't know a method but rather is intelligent enough to solve the cube while sitting in front of a timer without a method.

Maybe the 10 minute solvers are actually the smartest among us.
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Maybe they only know a beginner method and have practiced very little, so they have low tps, slow recognition and high movecount? I don't see what's so hard to understand here.
 
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