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The number of solve moves appears to be 4x the number of shuffle moves (?)
by matchagaucho 8y ago
The number of solve moves appears to be 4x the number of shuffle moves (?)
- gus_massa 8y agoNice observation. I count 15 vs 65. Most algorithm to solve the cube use some family of predefined blocks of moves. Each block of moves does something simple but interesting, like swapping two edges, or rotating two corners, without changing the rest of the cube. So you can start building one face and then slowly extend the solved part until all the cube is solved. This is easy to memorize and to use, because all the decisions to use a block of moves are "greedy", you just fix another edge or you fix another corner, one by one. The problem is that this approach doesn't provide the shorter solution. It's funny to make tree or four moves and then watch someone else use a few hundreds of moves to solve the cube.
- aidenn0 8y agoThe cube can't do middle rotations, so it will take longer than the minimum path in general; it's also likely that the solving code is not well optimized.
- PDoyle 8y agoYeah, they're using a rather naive human-oriented algorithm. It would be straightforward to improve this with a software upgrade.