From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Thu Mar 26 11:46:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id LAA00652; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:46:40 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From cube-lovers-request@life.ai.mit.edu Wed Mar 25 16:14:40 1998 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:10:54 -0500 (EST) From: Jiri Fridrich To: Geir Ugelstad Cc: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Jiri's system for solving Rubiks's cube In-Reply-To: <199803250737.IAA30286@dataway.ch> Message-Id: On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Geir Ugelstad wrote: > it was not possible to make it faster than 2-3 minutes. With Jiri's > system it should be possible in about 17 sec.! Yes, you are right - with my system AND a lot of time on your hands :) I am pretty sure that the systems of other top speed cubists are at least as as good as mine. The system is only half of the secret. > PS: Question to Jiri. How far are you able to do the foreplanning > the 15 sec. before the time start to run? Hopefully longer than > "Place the four edges from the first layer"? Nope. 15 seconds is not a long time to plan more than the four edges. Of course, as you proceed, you will usually be able to spot the corners with their appropriate cubies from the second layer in some nice position and continue without delays ... Jiri ********************************************* Jiri FRIDRICH, Research Scientist Center for Intelligent Systems SUNY Binghamton Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 Ph/Fax: (607) 777-2577 E-mail: fridrich@binghamton.edu http://ssie.binghamton.edu/~jirif/jiri.html *********************************************