Hi guys !! Since it's creating so much havoc to have luck in a short solution im now retiring from FMC. I am spending hours and hours each week working on...
... If trying hundreds of solves hoping to be lucky is a crime, I shouldn't go back home tonight. Gunmen, tanks and helicopters must be waiting for me. Gilles....
Sorry, I am a non-combatant here, but I want to comment anyway... ... Sounds like hard work to me, not luck. ... it ... Assuming the attempts are independent...
... [That was assuming that the "luckily" solved corners have to be a particular pair -- the probability will be considerably higher if it can be any pair.] As...
Hi, As much as i like to see the talk about probabilities, its not the real issue here. I asked Per as nicely as possible to shed some more light on his 14...
Sorry, Dan -- I didn't realize that the issue was the short "start". Although it's remarkable that 14 turns is optimal for solving everything except the...
Hi everyone, because I just moved house, we don't yet have an internet connection. Internet will e set up Wednesday hopefully, and so I will be able to make...
... You just said that so that participation in FMC will increase! Don't worry Dan, there's two new participants, if I'm not mistaken. I will soon start again...
Hi everyone, I've been thinking a little recently. shock. I think it would be nice to have ratings for all 4 metrics, and some statistics pages, but don't know...
O bugger. Dan :) ... From: fewestmoveschallenge@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fewestmoveschallenge@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of c_w_tsai Sent: 17 September 2005...
Just idle curiosity, but why are FMC scrambles traditionally created by hand? I can understand why you mightn't want a near-optimal generator produced by Cube...
Hi Mike :-) In fact i believe those scrambles are no longer generated by hand but by my scrambler program. Dan used to make hand-made scrambles for quite a...
... I somewhat disagree. It introduces an extra task, namely having to count the repetitions. Countless times did I screw up such a scramble because of that...
... Aha. ... The "anomalies" might be desirable: you could argue they add to the hand-made feel. ;) But it would not be too hard to check the order of each of...
Oh well ... One can never satisfy everyone. Especially tricky germans ... haha ... Cheers! -Per PS! Poor Stefan. Open up the FMC Companion. Paste the scramble...
Hi! You mean so that not the total sequence will be too long? Well it is already somewhat restricted. U select values from dropdown comboboxes. But yes it's a...
Hi Per Just realized that Dan has made your program available (d'oh), so I've downloaded it. ... I only meant if (X)^n = identity, you might not want (X)^a in...
Hi! Oh, the scrambler is not so advanced that it checks the cyclic decomposition of a sequence. That might maybe be useful. It's not very likely to encouter a...
... Thanks, I've got it now. (Hadn't made k1/=k2.) The program doesn't actually adjust e to be equal in length to a, but I guess it isn't meant to. Mike...
Hello! So i finally made it. I solved the fmc#99 scramble using only quarter turns. I did this in 30 moves, and with 2 slice turns as a bonus ;-) It's really...
Hi everyone! For FMC#99 the scramble was : D2 B' F U' L (R' D U2 B2 U2 )*3 D2 F2 L F' (B D' R2 D B' )*3 U L' B D2 R' My solution started like this : U' L' D B...
Hi everyone, I'm really sorry for the lack of updates to the website and FMC recently. Please don't be too hard on me, but I have been swamped with work at the...
Hi Dan ! The fact you haven't had any submissions yet doesn't mean we did not find any ;-) Actually we plan to send them all at once ... but we still have to...
... recently. ... at the ... on my ... going to ... it's ... that's a ... Please don't postpone FMC #100, it makes me waste too much time every weekend. I...
How can you postpone the old FMC?
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Umm ... I also can't find the usual good insertions, although i have found a few good starts now. But our team has a fairly good solution now ;-) Cheers! -Per ...
We're quite having trouble with our solution, so I would appreciate one more week of the team FMC. I'm not sure whether Dan was just proposing that we should...
