From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Thu Mar 18 19:04:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id TAA14621 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:04:31 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:35:57 -0500 (EST) From: Jiri Fridrich To: WaVeReBeL@webtv.net Cc: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Speed cubing results - March 99 In-Reply-To: <18576-36F03DA1-15@mailtod-122.bryant.webtv.net> Message-Id: I recommend that we accept the same rules as during the 1st (and the last) world championship. We had a chance to pick up the cube and look at it for 15 seconds. It was then returned to the table and the actual solving followed. Most competitors actually needed only 5-10 sec. to figure out the first couple of moves. Timing? I think most of us when we practice do the timing ourselves. I have one more point regarding the average. We should standardize this as well. For example, one can solve the cube 12 times, remove the worst and the best time and average the remaining 10. Or, do you want to list all the times during a practice and average them together? 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 *********************************************