What is the Limit?

[mark49152]

I think he knows Line, Tripod and pure OLL, as well as a few other 1lLL algs.

"Know" isn't a binary. When people say they know 1LLL algs I simply don't believe that they are genuinely recognising the case and selecting a 1LLL solution specific to that case, from multiple 1LLL options, for a case that only arises every few thousand solves - at least, not at speed.

Of course, I could learn which 1LLL case is solved by each of my OLLs and claim I saw it coming, or I could learn multiple OLLs and pick between them based on permutations, but that's not the same thing. You can't really claim to use an alg for 1LLL unless you don't use it for other 1LLL cases (IMHO).

 

[Tony Fisher]

As someone else stated you can't have a limit. You can predict the best that anyone will achieve before the human race dies out but that's not really a limit (unless you get into "cause and effect" arguments). You could probably introduce lower and higher bounds but not a single time that can be achieved and not beaten. For example if someone did 1.7784457 seconds how can you say that 1.7784456 is impossible?
Regarding the higher bounds, if people can do 10 TPS and God's algorithm is 20 we can safely say that 2 seconds is achievable, can't we? I am not talking about people solving in the minimum number of moves by skill, I mean by luck.