Message #3829

From: Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Reddit Thread for 4D Cubing Competition
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:48:50 -0800

Hello Ty,

Thank you for the reference. People are already solving the 3^4 fast enough to be practical but I’m pretty sure the cubing contest folks won’t be very warm to to the idea of including virtual puzzles. If they are, then there would naturally be cheating concerns if people were allowed to use their own hardware. If they wanted to do it anyway and want to use mobile devices, it might be possible to use scanners to extract and load scrambles from QR codes projected onto a screen or something.

Hopefully the physical 2^4 puzzle could avoid all the issues of virtual puzzles. I sure would love to see people speedsolving mine.

-Melinda

On 11/19/2017 4:47 PM, Ty Jones whotyjones@gmail.com [4D_Cubing] wrote:
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> I saw someone posted this thread on the /r/Cubers subreddit. I’m assuming it’s someone on this list. Anyone else see this?
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> https://www.reddit.com/r/Cubers/comments/7e0hi8/allowing_4d_2x2_and_4d_3x3_cubes_in_official/
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> I’m not sure how quickly people can speed solve the 3x3 but the 2x2 could be feasible if people brought their own computer, though I’m not sure there is a way to generate the same scramble for each competitor.
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> Is that possible Melinda?