Message #3830

From: Ty Jones <whotyjones@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Reddit Thread for 4D Cubing Competition
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 03:01:13 +0000

It’d be a bit tough to regulate that, too, right? That has specific ways
you can move it that are legal that people would need to watch for during
solves. Not sure how well that would work either :/

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017, 6:49 PM Melinda Green melinda@superliminal.com
[4D_Cubing] <4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Hello Ty,
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> 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
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> 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.
>
> Is that possible Melinda?
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