Smartcubes for improvement?

[MarkA64]

Just how much can a smart cube help an average cuber to learn and improve? I don't have much knowledge about the app, but I average like 20 right now so I'm wondering if it would be a good investment.

 

[Username: Username:]

Just how much can a smart cube help an average cuber to learn and improve? I don't have much knowledge about the app, but I average like 20 right now so I'm wondering if it would be a good investment.

I don't think so they would be of much help. I heard that they give only splits, statistics and movecount which we (or CSTimer) could manually do.
Also lookahead is something that they can't calculate.

I was thinking more about how it saves your solves for easy replay... and you can watch what other people are doing too. I dunno. It's 60 bucks for the 356.

you could do that free using Youtube, record a solve, put it on unlisted and replay it back using the slow-motion feature.

 

[Owen Morrison]

I don't think so they would be of much help. I heard that they give only splits, statistics and movecount which we (or CSTimer) could manually do.
Also lookahead is something that they can't calculate.

The 356 I gives you a fluency score, which pretty much calculates lookahead.

 

[MarkA64]

I was thinking more about how it saves your solves for easy replay... and you can watch what other people are doing too. I dunno. It's 60 bucks for the 356.

 

[Dan the Beginner]

See my post on how smartcubes can be useful in this thread.

Post in thread 'Are SmartCubes worth it?' https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/are-smartcubes-worth-it.90537/post-1562620