And today, the hundred best speedcubers on earth all average below 7. And yet, improvements are becoming more incremental; graph the progression of cubing records, and the resulting curves are unmistakably asymptotic. As speedcubers like Zemdegs approach the limits of their finger-flicking craft, an irresistible question arises: What might that limit be? The result would provide a theoretical limit to speedcubing.
Solve rates are pretty straightforward: In competition, elite cubers like Zemdegs average just shy of 10 turns per second.
At one end of the spectrum are configurations that require almost no effort to solve. There exist 18 starting positions, for instance, that require a single turn of a single face to resolve. Such simple scrambles would probably never be permitted in a tournament. Then again, the odds of them ever cropping up at random during a competition are, shall we say, small.
Forty-three quintillion—43,,,,,, to be exact—is the kind of number that defies analysis. Which is why, for many years, no one knew for certain how many moves were required to solve the cube's most Gordian scrambles.
Even if humans could identify the most efficient solution before executing a single turn, actually performing that solution might not be faster than speedcubers' current methods, which depend on deeply ingrained muscle memory and hair-trigger reflexes. By Ripley's Believe It or Not! How to Handle The Holidays. Nov 01, Oct 05, Sep 02, Local Sports All Sports. Calendar of France Holidays Year Brazilian Holidays Calendar of Panamanian Holidays Year Calendar of Canadian holidays year United Nations International Days Calendar of Asked by yumchicken.
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