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by BurningFrog 1426 days ago
...and I hope the other competitors are not allowed to see anyone else's solve before their turn?
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That's the hope. In practice nobody gets to sit down and examine a scramble in depth before their turn, but might be able to steal a few glances from a distance during someone else's solve. I'd say the advantage of someone doing that would be equivalent to adding 2-3 seconds of extra inspection time. Unfortunately there's a limit to how much cheating can be reasonably prevented and I've never noticed any problems with the current setup.