Zack, are you a Speedcuber?

[J T]

What's your fastest time?

[MQT3001]

I have yet to solve mine....I've spent over 5 hours, and managed to get 3 of the white together

[~Z~]

Fastest is around 50-55 seconds. Most of the time is around 1:20. I don't know any advanced moves, just the basic solving.

[J T]

Zack, I've always been curious of something...when they scramble these cubes before being solved, is there a chance that one cube may be easier to solve than another because of the different scrambling? It just seems like if they didn't scramble them exactly the same, one might be easier to solve than another. Or, am I just imagining an issue that doesn't exist?

[~Z~]

They scramble them differently each time. There's this many different combinations for the cube:
8! X 3^7 X 12!/2 X 2^11 = 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 which is approximately forty-three quintillion.
So yes, some way that the solver is given the cube could make them do the cube in less moves, so it is the luck of the draw as to which cube you get.

Computers can solve it in a maximum of 20 moves, which is less than most humans can. If the cube was setup the same way each time, people would solve them the fastest route possible instead of having to solve a random cube.

[J T]

If the cube was setup the same way each time, people would solve them the fastest route possible instead of having to solve a random cube.

Well, I guess it has just always seemed like it would be more fair in a competition if the cube was scrambled the same way for each contestant. Then again, the most I've ever been able to get is two sides, so no matter how it's scrambled, I still can't solve it.