Hi, everybody, did you notice that the cube scramble was unusually of "low complexity"? It's true at least for the Cube Explorer that finds the shortest...
I don't have a table, but if you assume that 18 is the norm, and there are 15 moves in each position, and negligible duplication, you'd end up with one chance...
Hi guys :-) At http://www.svekub.se they have launched a 2x2x2 fewest moves challenge. The scramble is as follows : B R B' R' F' R' F L D B R F R2 B' U2 L D'...
HI everyone, I have finally written the necessary code to generate the FMC Ratings. Currently the database goes back to challenge 106 - so if you haven't made...
I have added a lot of results to the FMC archive now, and done some more stuff like calculated the ratings trend and displayed the 6 solutions which count...
Hi, I did not have enough time to participate, but I found an interesting start for #119 FMC and thought that I could share it with you here. Suggestions are...
In WCA competition regulations (http://www.speedcubing.com/events/regulations.html) Article E, nothing special is said about scrambling for a fewest-moves...
I think 25 moves is good. Don't understand why those looooooooooooooooong algs on fewest moves...just makes things harder (to scramble, of course) : ) Pedro ...
Most of my free time that I might devote to FMC is on weekends. But the competition is closed down for most of Sunday, my local time. Could we shift the...
Hi Alexander, I got troubles as well ... until I noticed that one has to choose the metric BEFORE pressing the "View Results" buttons :) ...and the "all...
Hi Lars! I do not see the problem! People from all possible timezones are free to enter the competition. Surely u can find spare time at least 1-2 hrs sometime...
Hi Dan, I like your start for FMC #120. To remind you the scramble, it was U' B2 L B' R2 U2 B' D' U2 F L' R D2 F U B2 L F2 R2 B F U' D F L You did 2x2x3 block...
Hi Mirek/Dan ... I find that this makes up : D' F D2 R' U R2 F L' F' B' L2 D2 L' U' L D2 L' U L B2 L' D2 L F' B' D F D' B D for a total of 30 moves, no...
Last week's FMC (123) was my first try but I didn't feel like I knew what I was doing. I don't see any information on Dan's site. I read some of the comments...
That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Maybe I'll do better this week. ... may ... or ... The ... moves ... useful ... some ... some ... xxxx ... ...
I read through all of the posts that were part of the ones you gave. I also went to Ryan Heise's site and read his commutators section. I could solve them on...
... FMC is all about cheating, in that you get to redo and redo the same solution as many times as you can. ... Setup moves? ... Yes they do. But that's not...
Hi James, Just some more comments on your questions. Lars gave really helpful answers ... ... Actually it's the same thing. Suppose you have a block approach...
Hi :-) Finally an interesting thread on this forum. One about ... umm ... fewest moves ... lol ;-) Premoves are related to pseudoblocks. Let me explain what...
... Oh, I thought the dot actually meant something. Thanks. ... every ... lot ... I've read a lot of them already but I'll read the rest of them if it will...
... It really does help, especially when there are 2 or more premoves. ... Do something like R (DB)*10. Now you have a pseudo-2x2x3 at UF. If you use premoves,...
... This depends on whether the misalignment is off by 90 degrees or 180 degrees. It also depends on the underlying method being used. - A misalignment of 90...
Does anyone do anything smart when they end up with 3 corners in the correct location, yet in the incorrect orientation - I guess one could conjucate and do LL...
... Are you serious? It only takes 1 or 2 seconds to figure out what you are looking for. I've been using non-matching blockbuilding but if I will be able to...
