Your Thoughts on CubeTimer 2.0

[Hunter]

To support the development? Some of us actually have to make a living, not everybody lives with their mom who pays everything.

Also, would you not pay a bit for something that you like better?

I'm not sure one should try to make a living off a Rubiks cube timer.

 

[ianography]

I would pay

Buuut I only have 2 dollars and 75 cents.

So that's a bit of a predicament.

Also, if you could make a timer that was actually good for mobile, yeah I would probably pay.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

Dan, thanks. I've been using Cubetimer more than qqtimer or iitimer because separating the various puzzle results is so important to me. If your new timer had all the options I want for my iPhone or iPad, I would pay for it.

Options I want:

Selecting puzzles of type "BLD" should assume no WCA inspection limit and display results as "fulltime[memotime]".

More than 4000 bytes of results should be allowed. One idea is to have separate cookies for each puzzle type.

Add an option to display a START/STOP button for devices like iPhone or iPad that do not have a spacebar. The timer should start with "button release" and stop with "button push".

In addition to allowing individual times to be deleted, it would be nice to allow entering a time by hand.

Like qqtimer, the best of 5 or 12 solves should indicate and ignore the (slowest) and (fastest) time. I think you were doing that already, right? The 5 or 12 times should be prepared for an easy copy/paste operation, for example to Jon's Rubik's Cube Sunday Contest (if that site ever comes back).

Just as you have had it, the text size for the Timer should be large enough for an audience to see. Also, each single quote (or "prime") mark in the scramble should be easy to see, perhaps by using a fixed width font or by inserting a space before the quote.

One way to get money for it is to simply ask for a $5 or $10 donation, especially if a donation removes advertisements. Assuming it is usable on any computer or mobile phone, you may get many donations.

 

[rahulkadukar]

To support the development? Some of us actually have to make a living, not everybody lives with their mom who pays everything.

Also, would you not pay a bit for something that you like better?

1. Why would someone pay for something when it can be had for free. A lot of timers have almost every required feature and their source code can be changed such that the user can make any change that they want.
2. You can make a living from a lot of things. The fact that somebody does not ask for some money for such things does not imply that they live with their mom.

 

[blokpoi]

Dan, thanks. I've been using Cubetimer more than qqtimer or iitimer because separating the various puzzle results is so important to me. If your new timer had all the options I want for my iPhone or iPad, I would pay for it.

Options I want:

Selecting puzzles of type "BLD" should assume no WCA inspection limit and display results as "fulltime[memotime]".

More than 4000 bytes of results should be allowed. One idea is to have separate cookies for each puzzle type.

Add an option to display a START/STOP button for devices like iPhone or iPad that do not have a spacebar. The timer should start with "button release" and stop with "button push".

In addition to allowing individual times to be deleted, it would be nice to allow entering a time by hand.

Like qqtimer, the best of 5 or 12 solves should indicate and ignore the (slowest) and (fastest) time. I think you were doing that already, right? The 5 or 12 times should be prepared for an easy copy/paste operation, for example to Jon's Rubik's Cube Sunday Contest (if that site ever comes back).

Just as you have had it, the text size for the Timer should be large enough for an audience to see. Also, each single quote (or "prime") mark in the scramble should be easy to see, perhaps by using a fixed width font or by inserting a space before the quote.

One way to get money for it is to simply ask for a $5 or $10 donation, especially if a donation removes advertisements. Assuming it is usable on any computer or mobile phone, you may get many donations.

What about using the home button at the bottom as the spacebar for ipads and iphones?

 

[tim]

What about using the home button at the bottom as the spacebar for ipads and iphones?

Can't be done.

 

[blokpoi]

Can't be done.

Oh, why not? I thought there were some games that disable it and put an exit button on the screen if you wanted to exit, because they use the home button.

 

[NevinsCPH]

I would pay an affordable price, 10~20, IF it has experience and level up like RPGs. Please forgive my inappropriate imagination.

 

[tim]

Oh, why not? I thought there were some games that disable it and put an exit button on the screen if you wanted to exit, because they use the home button.

We're talking about a web page. Every stupid javascript-haxx0r could render the home button useless. Of course it's not possible.
And even if we talked about native games, it'd still be a very stupid idea to abuse the home button, since it's the only way to close that particular app.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

Oh, why not? I thought there were some games that disable it and put an exit button on the screen if you wanted to exit, because they use the home button.

It would make more sense to offer a START/STOP button and permit the Home button to work normally than to change the Home button behavior and add an Exit button. I recommend the Start/Stop button be optional, for devices without a spacebar.

By the way, with the old Cubetimer, I would toggle on the countdown sound and set the timer to 10 or 15 seconds, but then I would need to click the window background so the selection focus would not be on those items. Otherwise pushing the spacebar would toggle the countdown sound or bring up the timer selection list. Is there a way to remove selection focus when done setting preferences?

 

[frici]

This cube timer I found is optimized for mobile browsers: http://ruwix.com/online-rubiks-stopwatch-timer/mobile-rubiks-cubetimer-iphone-android-stopwatch/
It's pretty simple, just the basic functions like best time, scramble generator etc. What do you think about it? I think it's just enough for a mobile timer.

 

[collinbxyz]

Sorry if someone said this before, since I only read the first page, but I might pay to track my progress, in addition to racing against friends. Profiles similar to WCA would be nice.

Just a few ideas.

 

[SketchCuber]

I would also like a way to track my progress plus leader boards.