Show HN: Rubiks Cube Solver

(speedcube.com.br)

18 points | by wozzp 9 hours ago ago

8 comments

  • agar 7 hours ago ago

    Note to the site author: Using Chrome's translate tool seems to break your UI. Upon first visit, I was prompted to translate from Portuguese to English and accepted. Subsequent visits required I click the "Translate this page" button on the right side of the URL bar. (Edit: Chrome 1490.7827.201 on Windows 10).

    When translated, clicking the Solver drop-down (default 3x3x3) displays:

    Unexpected error

    Something went wrong. The current screen broke unexpectedly. Please try again or switch routes to reload it.

    • wozzp 6 hours ago ago

      Interesting, but the site has support for 9 languages, what language were you using?

  • vivzkestrel 3 hours ago ago

    - instead of giving a solver, solve the harder problem

    - make a tool that teaches me how to visualize a rubiks cube so that i can solve it myself

    - make it something like this https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/

  • schoen 7 hours ago ago

    Does it effectively achieve God's Algorithm (minimum theoretically possible sequence of moves to solve each position)?

    • xmprt 7 hours ago ago

      God's algorithm is not computationally feasible on consumer hardware so I'd assume not although there are many algorithms that can get pretty close (either matching or 1-2 moves off the optimal solution) which are much faster to solve. If you're curious, look up Cube Explorer which is an app that's built for this.

    • wozzp 6 hours ago ago

      Not in practice. Computing the absolute minimum solution for every possible position is computationally infeasible for a web-based solver. This uses Kociemba’s two-phase algorithm instead, which produces very efficient solutions, usually close to optimal, without requiring enormous amounts of time and memory.

  • logicalappeals 7 hours ago ago

    HN hitting new lows when slop like this makes it on my feed. This is neither original nor inspiring. Props on the umpteenth Rubik’s cube solver, I guess.

    • wozzp 6 hours ago ago

      Your -3 karma is pretty self-explanatory. Hope you have a better day tomorrow.