>>11827728Follow up. I guess my point was that luck is *A* factor, but skill is significantly more important. I average ~15 seconds. My best time EVER (at home, not in comp) on a computer scrambled cube is ~8 secs.
World class solvers have a GLOBAL average of about 7 secs.
There is absolutely no way I could personally break the world record on a decently-scrambled cube.
In competition, you only get five solves per round. This makes getting a lucky solve much less likely. Also, your average time of those five solves is calculated after discarding the best and worst solve, so getting a lucky AVERAGE is even more rare.
>>11827744Yes. Everybody brings their own cube to the competition.
>>11827752This is true. However in practice, humans don't solve cubes like computers do - ESPECIALLY not in speedsolves. There is an event called "Fewest Moves Challenge" where you get a scramble and 1 hour to give a written solution in the fewest moves you can, and cubers HAVE argued over whether some scrambles should be filtered.
The official rules do say that a puzzle must be at LEAST two turns from solved state to be a valid scramble, but in practice, I assume that a judge would throw such a scramble out.
>>11827763If I remember correctly, the 20-movers are extremely rare and quite symmetrical, so I don't believe you can get from one to another with only one turn.
