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by nsilvestri 1427 days ago
Nitpicking a little here. The minimum is 2 moves, with exceptions for 2x2, Skewb, Square-1, and Pyraminx. https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#4b3
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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.
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.

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