[floatingleaf]

The competitions should be for minimal no of steps/moves. Not the time taken.

[cupofinsane]

There are 'fewest moves' competition as well

[jayflux]

It’s already like that to be fair, people get faster by getting from A to B in fewer moves. The two go hand in hand, it’s like speedrunning.

[ansible]

It is almost the same thing. Less moves means less time to solve. I'm amazed by the performance of robots and people these days at this task.

[srtjstjsj]

It's not. There's a factor of over 100 between fastest solves and novice solves with a guide.

[ansible]

We're talking about competition.

Here is a previous world record solve from 2016, in about 31 moves over 4.73 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjOyaf2JKoE

You don't just pick that up from a book.

Optimal number of moves is 20, so ~30 is pretty good.