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Is it possible to get to all regular 5x5 positions using only 4x4 style scrambles (no Bw, Lw or Dw), similarly can you get to all regular 7x7 states without using 3B, 3L and 3D?
Today's wtf monent: I was hand-scrambling a 3x3 while not really paying attention to the cube. When I stopped and looked down, the last move I was making brought the cube back to solved. I knew hand scrambles were bad, but ... what?!?
Is it possible to get to all regular 5x5 positions using only 4x4 style scrambles (no Bw, Lw or Dw), similarly can you get to all regular 7x7 states without using 3B, 3L and 3D?
I remember thatLol wow! the closest i've had is a corner skip.
No as some of them does require those moves.
Is it possible to get to all regular 5x5 positions using only 4x4 style scrambles (no Bw, Lw or Dw), similarly can you get to all regular 7x7 states without using 3B, 3L and 3D?
I was thinking about this, actually... I think it's possible. I haven't fleshed out the proof, but here's some intuition:
If we can show that we can move the corners, edges, wings, and centers however we want (independent of the other pieces, that is), then that should be enough. Corners and edges are given, since there isn't any restriction on <F,B,L,R,U,D>. Wings can be shown to be given because it's definitely possible to solve wings relative to their midges without <Bw,Lw,Dw> - just do beginners-style 3-cycles over and over, flipping edges around using rotations and R U R' F R' F' R.
The final thing I want to prove is centers - intuitively, we can use a heavily-modified version of U2 to always push the targets to a place that the U2 alg is in our set (eg, the location Fru, which we can do by f' u f U2 f u' f' - so, moving a piece like Bdl could be done with B2 u2 [Fru alg] u2 B2). Not super sure how to handle niklas-like cases yet, but it shouldn't be hard.
Obviously, it's not gonna be move-efficient, and a random-move 4x4 scrambler won't have a reasonable distribution of 5x5 states, but that's not the question at hand Remember that you can reach all 3x3 states without ever doing a D move! You can just do L R F2 B2 U L R F2 B2 every time you would normally get one
Yes
and replace Dw and Bw with variations of that
Even shorter (17 htm) and with only one Rw:More efficient version (22 htm):
U2 B2 F2 D2 Rw' D2 B2 F2 U D' L2 U' D' Rw U D L2 U' D' Rw' U2 D2
Defining solved to mean having a piece in the correct location but not necessarily in the right orientation, given a random state scramble, what are the probabilities of having n solved pieces for n=1 to 20?
Solved with respect to centers.I'm guessing centres are fixed?
Because if not N</=1
But seriously would full dots (all 6) be 20 or 0 in your thinking?
Hi there,
When your scrambling your cube from like cubetimer.com, does it really matter if you scramble it exactly how the alg says how to do it? If I did a U instead of a U' in the scramble it wouldn't really matter, it is still scrambled well.
Just a fun thought.
Hi there,
When your scrambling your cube from like cubetimer.com, does it really matter if you scramble it exactly how the alg says how to do it? If I did a U instead of a U' in the scramble it wouldn't really matter, it is still scrambled well.
Just a fun thought.
I was hand scrambling a few solves, and then one solve I did, as I started F2L, I realised it was the EXACT SAME scramble as the one I did right before that solve.
As I finished the solve it was same OLL and same PLL and everything.
I scramble pretty fast and I'm sure it's more moves than a scramble from CStimer, so I was surprised!
I was hand scrambling a few solves, and then one solve I did, as I started F2L, I realised it was the EXACT SAME scramble as the one I did right before that solve.
As I finished the solve it was same OLL and same PLL and everything.
I scramble pretty fast and I'm sure it's more moves than a scramble from CStimer, so I was surprised!
I was hand scrambling a few solves, and then one solve I did, as I started F2L, I realised it was the EXACT SAME scramble as the one I did right before that solve.
As I finished the solve it was same OLL and same PLL and everything.
I scramble pretty fast and I'm sure it's more moves than a scramble from CStimer, so I was surprised!