The road to sub 20, or 20.00 if god hates you....

[Bob]

19.998 is sub-20, but you don't know for sure he got 19.998. Maybe the time on his first solve was 20.424, but the timer rounds it to 20.42. If all his times ended in 0.004 (worst case scenario), his average would be 20.002, which is not sub-20. We don't know, because the timer doesn't measure up to three decimal places. And that is why we use sig figs.

Actually, the worst-case scenerio might be even worse. From what I understand, the newest stackmats are incapable of producing a time ending in .01 or .99, along with some others. Someone correct me or clarify if I'm wrong.

 

[PatrickJameson]

19.998 is sub-20, but you don't know for sure he got 19.998. Maybe the time on his first solve was 20.424, but the timer rounds it to 20.42. If all his times ended in 0.004 (worst case scenario), his average would be 20.002, which is not sub-20. We don't know, because the timer doesn't measure up to three decimal places. And that is why we use sig figs.

Actually, the worst-case scenerio might be even worse. From what I understand, the newest stackmats are incapable of producing a time ending in .01 or .99, along with some others. Someone correct me or clarify if I'm wrong.

On my timer you cant get; 1.01 0.99 0.98 0.82 0.79 0.74 0.73

That's all I know of. I'm sure there's more.

 

[Tomarse]

Aww so close! =[

 

[JohnnyA]

I'm happy I didn't get an average of 20.00 ... just today I clicked with lookahead and managed to push from 20.23 to 19.63

 

[Fobo911]

Aww, too bad for the 20.00 rolling average. But hey, you matched the average of the winner at the 2003 World Championships.

 

[JLarsen]

Aww, too bad for the 20.00 rolling average. But hey, you matched the average of the winner at the 2003 World Championships.

Mehbeh, but that's just an average of 5, I've got around like 17 second averages of 5. Even 15 or 16 if its trimmed!

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

19.998 is sub-20, but you don't know for sure he got 19.998. Maybe the time on his first solve was 20.424, but the timer rounds it to 20.42. If all his times ended in 0.004 (worst case scenario), his average would be 20.002, which is not sub-20. We don't know, because the timer doesn't measure up to three decimal places. And that is why we use sig figs.

Actually, the worst-case scenerio might be even worse. From what I understand, the newest stackmats are incapable of producing a time ending in .01 or .99, along with some others. Someone correct me or clarify if I'm wrong.

On my timer you cant get; 1.01 0.99 0.98 0.82 0.79 0.74 0.73

That's all I know of. I'm sure there's more.

You can't get 0.99, 0.98, 13.37, 1.37, 1.01 on mine

 

[ImNOTnoob]

Lol. At least computer timers are much more accurate, yet, there is still very little inaccuracies.

I cant get my average below 21! Wah!