World Record limit fo 3X3?

When our species has achieved interstellar travel and inadvertently sends a signal to the aliens, they’ll discover the Rubik’s cube, which, with their evolved appendages, will be able to turn at extreme TPS, and with their quantum supercomputer-like intelligence, will be able to find an optimal solution in a fraction of the 15 second inspection period allowed by the WCA, and will be able to solve the 3x3 in less than the 0.38 robot WR.

just a possibility
 
True :p
I don't have a stackmat, but someone could easily prove the upper bound is 0.15 or something.

With the right hardware and a scramble like U D you could get it almost as fast as just a timer start/stop.

Just using the YueXiao that was lying on my desk, I was able to get 0.225 within a couple tries with the scramble U' D.

Doing a just-over-45-degree E layer move to scramble (which is technically okay), I was able to get it down to 0.154 (I also got a 0.113 with a really shady timer stop).

So your guess was right; so far we have bounds of [0.06, 0.15] for the limit of 3x3 single, lol. Interestingly, I've found that it's best to do these scrambles one-handed, keeping the other hand on the timer. So, if one of these scrambles ever showed up, the 3x3 WR could be done OH. :p
 
About the whole TPS thing, I think we might have futuristic cubes that allow us to turn very fast. If someone had a 15 move solution with a 20-23tps? Sub 0.75
 
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