I am loving this comp, thanks for hosting it @Athefre
Maybe you could do a comp for cuboids or FTO or kilominx or something. The less heavily explored side of relatively popular puzzles.
FTO seems to be a good candidate with its rise in popularity. Also 4x4 could be an idea too. 4x4 incorporates direct solving, not just redux, and integrates 3x3 methods into the solve leaving many possibilities to explore.I love the idea of another puzzle method dev competition. I was thinking megaminx, but at the top level you kinda do whatever method you feel like. 2x2 has too few options, big cubes would all be redux variants and pyraminx is all too first or v first. That leaves squan, clock, and skewb. Skewb is like 2x2 with Sarah’s advanced, and clock also hardly has any options. If there would be another event competition, it would probably have to be non wca to make any real improvements.
There’s 2-3 every year, so one every 4-6 months.when will the next comb be? Are they monthly?
Yeah my gut feeling is that 4x4 still has some possibly interesting methods left. I'm not sure what the current status of trying to predict parities early is but if the community comes together for a new advanced counting method (maybe even with some part of it in inspection) maybe like CSP it will become viable. (For reference, squan has been a WCA event since 2003, yet CSP was only introduced in 2014.)FTO seems to be a good candidate with its rise in popularity. Also 4x4 could be an idea too. 4x4 incorporates direct solving, not just redux, and integrates 3x3 methods into the solve leaving many possibilities to explore.
This would be really cool but it seems a rather daunting task. It seems that the closest that we have now would is solving parity at the end of edge pairing similar to k4. This could also mean that the method would have to be developed around the parity recognition which may not be beneficial/.Yeah my gut feeling is that 4x4 still has some possibly interesting methods left. I'm not sure what the current status of trying to predict parities early is but if the community comes together for a new advanced counting method (maybe even with some part of it in inspection) maybe like CSP it will become viable. (For reference, squan has been a WCA event since 2003, yet CSP was only introduced in 2014.)
I was browsing around and I wonder if any fast roux solvers have tried speedsolving with this method https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/intuitive-4x4-method-with-parity-avoidance.73049/This would be really cool but it seems a rather daunting task. It seems that the closest that we have now would is solving parity at the end of edge pairing similar to k4. This could also mean that the method would have to be developed around the parity recognition which may not be beneficial/.
This is another method of the same vain but more of a Petrus style https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Pet5I was browsing around and I wonder if any fast roux solvers have tried speedsolving with this method https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/intuitive-4x4-method-with-parity-avoidance.73049/
Sounds like a good idea.Maybe you could do a comp for cuboids or FTO or kilominx or something. The less heavily explored side of relatively popular puzzles.
when will the next comb be? Are they monthly?
I have a really great method that I can solve with almost as fast as cfop even though I learned it in one day however I don't have time to make an entire doc about it. will the future competitions have 3x3 again?
Is it really over?