From bosch@smiteo.esd.sgi.com Wed Oct 26 11:28:44 1994 Return-Path: Received: from sgigate.sgi.com by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA04158; Wed, 26 Oct 94 11:28:44 EDT Received: from sgihub.corp.sgi.com by sgigate.sgi.com via ESMTP (940627.SGI.8.6.9/911001.SGI) id IAA17571; Wed, 26 Oct 1994 08:28:10 -0700 Received: from smiteo.esd.sgi.com by sgihub.corp.sgi.com via SMTP (940519.SGI.8.6.9/911001.SGI) id IAA26133; Wed, 26 Oct 1994 08:28:07 -0700 Received: by smiteo.esd.sgi.com (931110.SGI/940406.SGI.AUTO) for @sgihub.corp.sgi.com:cube-lovers@life.ai.mit.edu id AA01707; Wed, 26 Oct 94 08:27:59 -0700 From: "Derek Bosch" Message-Id: <9410260827.ZM1705@smiteo.esd.sgi.com> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 08:27:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: "Daniel P. Maloney" "" (Oct 26, 11:02am) References: <35483102694110235@FREDONIA> X-Mailer: Z-Mail-SGI (3.0S.1026 26oct93 MediaMail) To: "Daniel P. Maloney" , dbisel@adrian.adrian.edu Cc: cube-lovers@life.ai.mit.edu Subject: Fast cubing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 I too, have read the book, Jeff Conquers The Cube in 45 seconds, as well as Minh Thai's book on the cube (he's the world record holder, with 22 seconds as an official world record. I used to compete back in the cubing days, and could regularly get under 25 seconds, using a strategy of solving the corners, solving the edges on two opposite sides, followed by the middle slice. Several people on this mailing list have done serious analysis trying to reach "God's Algorithm", which isn't terribly useful to me. The operators that these analyses generate are really slow to crank out on the cube. I prefer slightly longer ones, that are more optimized for speed (hand positions, etc). Derek -- Derek Bosch "Time flies like an arrow, (415) 390-2115 but fruit flies like bananas" bosch@sgi.com J. Blaylock