Weekly Competition 2018-02

[Mike Hughey]

I would like to announce that the WCA inspection feature is now enabled on the website. In order to use it, navigate to "Settings" from the menu at the top of the page, and check "WCA inspection". It can be used with or without "Disable Timer Start Delay"; to most closely emulate a stackmat timer, leave "Disable Timer Start Delay" unchecked. (But some people have had trouble with that feature, so it's a selectable option.)

With WCA inspection turned on, it will begin 15 seconds inspection when you first hit and release a key. It will let you know with audio (my voice ) at 8 seconds and 12 seconds, and inform you if you get a +2 or DNF. (Mostly it works like CSTimer.) If you get a DNF it will stop the solve. (I believe that's different from CSTimer.) There is also audio now for a five minute warning and a stop for fewest moves, and for all solves it will let you know if you get a +2 penalty after the solve is complete.

Please send me a PM if you have any problems with the new feature - I'll be happy to try to fix it as quickly as possible.

jscuber suspicious 2bld:

1. He either did 2x2 speedbld
2. or he cheated

Yes, I'm afraid that might be the case. Unfortunately, it feels to me like our 2BLD results are hopelessly polluted now, because I believe a number of the results from various people are cases of #1 (and perhaps a few are #2). Just to repeat so everyone knows - 2x2x2 blindfolded is supposed to be done with the same rules as 3x3x3 blindfolded - cover the cube, start the timer, uncover the cube and begin inspection, then pull on a blindfold before beginning to solve. Solves under 5 seconds still seem a little hard for me to believe, given that you have to do all of that.

 

[Bart Van Eynde]

For some reason the timer won't start on the website. I press space but nothing happens

 

[Bart Van Eynde]

For some reason the timer won't start on the website. I press space but nothing happens

Does work with inspection time though

 

[Mike Hughey]

For some reason the timer won't start on the website. I press space but nothing happens

I've not been able to reproduce this; if someone can give me hints on how to reproduce it, I will be happy to try to fix it. Very sorry for the inconvenience!

 

[Lili Martin]

2x2 : 12.78, (12.94), 11.58, (8.43), 9.39 = 11.25
3x3 : 41.01, 36.64, 37.42, (29.54), (49.79) = 38.36
4x4 : (2:59.05), (1:45.56), 2:32.69, 2:01.44, 2:06.40 = 2:13.51
5x5 : 3:43.78, 4:17.83, 3:58.88, (4:44.56), (3:35.98) = 4:00.16
FMC : 46

Spoiler: FMC

cross : L2 B' U L2 F2 5/5
F2L : D' B' D B 4/9
F2L : D' R' D R 4/13
F2L : x2 F U2 F' L U2 L' 6/19
F2L : L' U' L U2 L' U L U' L' U' L 11/30
OLL : y' R U R' U' R' F R F' 8/38
PLL : U' F2 U' M' U2 M U' F2 8/46

2-4 relay : 3:14.91
2-5 relay : 7:09.50
Skewb : 18.28, 17.17, (14.18), 14.68, (19.78) = 17.71

 

[bubbagrub]

I've not been able to reproduce this; if someone can give me hints on how to reproduce it, I will be happy to try to fix it. Very sorry for the inconvenience!

I have the same problem on Chrome on a ChromeBook, Chrome on a MacBook Pro and Safari on the MacBook. If I turn on inspection time, then it works fine, but otherwise, I can't find any way to make the timer start.

I don't see any errors in the console (apart from some when the page loads) -- it looks like the JavaScript is just not being called or is being called and not doing anything...

I could try playing with the JavaScript a bit to see what's happening, if that's helpful...

Edit: Ah! Turning on inspection, using the timer and then turning inspection off fixes it. In other words, to see the problem, you might need to try clearing your cache / cookies.

Edit2: Yes, that works. So if you come to use the timer for the first time, it doesn't work. Once you've had inspection turned on at some point in the past, it works again. Clearing cookies takes you back to the state where the timer doesn't work again.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Thank you so much! That was the problem, and I think I have fixed it. I actually inadvertently fixed it last night when adding the blindfolded timer mode, which is now available (from the settings menu, again). So all I had to do was enable blindfolded mode for everyone and now it appears to work.

For blindfolded mode, I made it so that it copies your memorization split to the comment window. So you can use that as part of your comment for the week.

Please let me know if you see any other problems with the site; I will fix them as quickly as possible.

 

[Thom S.]

3x3: 28.47
(26.738)
28.629
(32.407)
28.580
28.514
Megaminx: 03:47.324
(04:56.974)
(03:23.251)
03:37.633
04:10.323
03:40.018

Square-1: 19.19
19.998
18.592
18.981
(21.644)
(17.722)

 

[bubbagrub]

That was the problem, and I think I have fixed it.

Looks good to me now! Thanks for fixing that so quickly!

 

[MrHunterGames]

2x2: (12.40), 8.11, (5.97), 6.22, 6.31 = 6.88
3x3: (10.98), 14.84, (21.90), 16.70, 20.30 = 17.28
Pyraminx: (5.20), 4.52, (3.70), 4.24, 3.96 = 4.24
Skewb: 14.68, (17.37), 15.95, (9.65), 11.29 = 13.97

 

[T1_M0]

oh oops. I've been doing it wrong this whole time.

same lol

 

[Not AAron]

3x3x3: 29.28, 28.76, 32.51, (39.64), (27.01) = 30.18

 

[iwaru kitsune(iopfox)]

3x3 | 30.160, (28.016) ,(43.312) ,29.312 ,39.952+ = 33.141 [ almost sub-30 ]
pyra | (28.824), 21.456, 19.873, 19.264, (17.680) = 20.198 [ im n00b (bgner) ]

 

[SpartanSailor]

Hey everyone! This is my first time giving this weekly forum comp a go... I did as many as I could... I’m not sure if there’s a time limit for the 3BLD attempt, but here are my results:

222: Ao5 = 6.553
7.307, (7.921), [4.764], 6.447, 5.906

333: Ao5 = 25.668
25.531, 25.820, [24.485], 25.653, (28.476)

444: Ao5 = 1:43.469
1:46.734, 1:46.398, [1:50.952], (1:28.582), 1:37.276

BLD:
DNF, DNF, 10:44.749 (phew...)

OH: Ao5 = 1:26.374
1:36.305, 1:20.191, (1:11.947), 1:22.627, [1:44.586]

2-3-4 relay:
2:11.874

Skewb: Ao5 = 11.861
(16.602), [8.300], 11.694, 11.208, 12.682

 

[Mike Hughey]

I’m not sure if there’s a time limit for the 3BLD attempt

There are no time limits here except those imposed by WCA overall requirements (60 minutes for fewest moves, 60 minutes for multiBLD [or 10 minutes per cube for less than 6 cubes]). And of course you have to have your results in before the week finally closes (when Mats publishes the results). Other than that, no time limits.

Congrats on the BLD success!

I once did a megaminx solve in approximately 5 days for an early one of these competitions (I had just bought my first megaminx, and wanted to figure out how to solve it myself without any instructions or hints). It seems to me I might have attempted to do the same for square-1, but took over a week to solve it the first time so it couldn't count for that week's results.

 

[Thom S.]

I think I already know the answer, but is the Cubestyle/Fanxin Kilominx legal for this Competition?

 

[Mike Hughey]

I think I already know the answer, but is the Cubestyle/Fanxin Kilominx legal for this Competition?

I don't think it has been discussed before, but I would be inclined to think the answer should probably be no. A fascinating question that I don't know the answer to: can it be solved with centers wrong, but the rest solved? And if so, how many possible "solved states" (with different center configurations relative to the corners, but all corners solved) like that are there?

 

[xyzzy]

A fascinating question that I don't know the answer to: can it be solved with centers wrong, but the rest solved? And if so, how many possible "solved states" (with different center configurations relative to the corners, but all corners solved) like that are there?

Yes to the first question, 60 to the second (60 = number of possible rotations of a dodecahedron).

 

[Mike Hughey]

Yes to the first question, 60 to the second (60 = number of possible rotations of a dodecahedron).

Thanks - I was wondering if maybe some of those 60 states weren't reachable.

 

[Petri Krzywacki]

3x3: (26.55), (33.22), 27.80, 27.89, 27.59 = 27.76