[charcircuit]

>The official regulations for scrambling do require an optimum solution of >x moves

It says it has to be more than 1 move away from being solved.

[nsilvestri]

Nitpicking a little here. The minimum is 2 moves, with exceptions for 2x2, Skewb, Square-1, and Pyraminx. https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#4b3

[GoldenRacer]

2 is a lot smaller of a number than I remembered but I looked at the regulations in the way back machine and it looks like it's been that way for a while. I kind of wonder why they'd have it at such a low number.

[charcircuit]

The scrambler that is usually used to generate the scrambles had a minimum move count of like 13. You were probably thinking of that.

>I kind of wonder why they'd have it at such a low number.

I don't know why it's 2 either as you might as well make it 1. They accept that the chance of such a short scramble coming up is too small to happen.

[GoldenRacer]

Thanks! I bet that's exactly what created my confusion