Really curious to know the guidelines for the state of the unsolved cube. Clearly some configurations are faster to solve than others discounting the speed of the solver.
The scrambles are computer generated and yes you can get lucky cases, which is why they are often taking averages as well.
Also, not everyone will solve every scramble the same way, since there's an element of decision making involved there, and future steps depend on previous ones.
The WCA regulations (which any competition follows) specifies a uniform distribution over all possible states, excepting ones that take 0 or 1 moves to solve.
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Really curious to know the guidelines for the state of the unsolved cube. Clearly some configurations are faster to solve than others discounting the speed of the solver.
The scrambles are computer generated and yes you can get lucky cases, which is why they are often taking averages as well.
Also, not everyone will solve every scramble the same way, since there's an element of decision making involved there, and future steps depend on previous ones.
The WCA regulations (which any competition follows) specifies a uniform distribution over all possible states, excepting ones that take 0 or 1 moves to solve.
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#4b3