OtaMota
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Again, Minh Thai is not counted as it was before the WCA.
Sebastiano Tronto's 16 move single is the 4th longest lasting record in the history WCA
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Again, Minh Thai is not counted as it was before the WCA.
Enirolf
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Bro, you already made a thread about this a month ago.
Why????
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the longest thats still standing!
THE_V01DL0RD
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whats the FMC UWR
OtaMota
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Because a month ago, it was 5th longest, now it is 4th.
OtaMota
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16 tied by multiple people.
THE_V01DL0RD
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why 16? do 16 movers hae the most combinations?
OtaMota
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15 movers are not incredibly rare scramble wise, especially when you take into account the great number of solves done at home. It’s just that 15 movers are hard to find.
FenTheGoat
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Only 54 days until it’s the 2nd longest (a lil less than 2 months!!!)
I don’t expect it to be beaten anytime soon, so it’s 100% going to make it there.
tseitsei
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About 2.5% of all scrambles are solvable in 16 moves. But only 0.2% are solvable in 15 moves.
And even if you happen to get such a lucky scramble it is very unlikely that you will find an optimal solution to that. Even the best FMC solvers in the world only rarely find optimal solutions within 1 hour time limit.
Getting 16 moves is already very rare and getting a 15 move solution is more than 10x less likely (0.2%/2.5%) so it makes sense that there are several 16 movers but no 15 movers.
That being said I think someone will eventually get lucky and get a 15, but it will probably never go lower than that. Just getting a scramble that is solvable in 14 moves is about 0.016%. And then you need to happen to find an optimal solution for that exact scramble. Extremely unlikely.
Christopher Mowla
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The frequency distribution of required moves (distance) to # of positions is on the bottom right of this page: https://www.cube20.org/
THE_V01DL0RD
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'cording to the chart, the most combinations are solved in 18 moves
Gecko777
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there was a UWR for FMC that was 14, though I do not remember the source.
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