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by ansible 2102 days ago
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.
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It's not. There's a factor of over 100 between fastest solves and novice solves with a guide.
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.