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In ‘00s we had this category called “3x3 supersolve”. In essence it was speed solve with unlimited inspection time. It was kinda stressful because you had one shot after almost hour of tinkering.

I remember on some mailing list we wrote program that calculated time for any algorithm using some heuristics how long would it take average speedcuber to perform specific sequences of moves. Then we would publish one scramble and everyone tried to find solution that should take shortest time. We just excluded physical aspect of speedcubing.

I also remember “3x3 fewest moves” but you can’t move the cube. We just did inspection and wrote solution on paper. In regular “fewest moves” you get scramble and can play with multiple cubes.