From BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu Fri Oct 28 12:55:14 1994 Return-Path: Received: from WVNVM.WVNET.EDU by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA03736; Fri, 28 Oct 94 12:55:14 EDT Message-Id: <9410281655.AA03736@life.ai.mit.edu> Received: from WVNVM.WVNET.EDU by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2674; Fri, 28 Oct 94 12:54:58 EDT Received: from WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (NJE origin BRYAN@WVNVM) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 8315; Fri, 28 Oct 1994 12:54:58 -0400 X-Acknowledge-To: Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 12:54:56 EDT From: "Jerry Bryan" To: Subject: Re: Speed Cubing In-Reply-To: Message of 10/27/94 at 21:57:00 from mark.longridge@canrem.com Has any analysis of speed cubing been performed in the sense of how many twists were performed? How many twists does somebody accomplish in under 45 seconds or in 22.95 seconds? For example, you might video tape somebody and replay it in slow motion. It would still be hard to get an accurate count, I think. You would have to ignore whole cube rotations, and it might be hard to distinguish between half and quarter turns, plus somebody might be using slice moves. But if such an analysis *could* be done, it would be interesting to to compare the results to what is known mathematically about God's Algorithm. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Robert G. Bryan (Jerry Bryan) (304) 293-5192 Associate Director, WVNET (304) 293-5540 fax 837 Chestnut Ridge Road BRYAN@WVNVM Morgantown, WV 26505 BRYAN@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU If you don't have time to do it right today, what makes you think you are going to have time to do it over again tomorrow?