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by AlwaysBCoding 5003 days ago
In Rubik's cube competitions I think you solve the cube 10 times, and then the fastest and slowest times are dropped and the remaining 8 are averaged together, and that's how they get those times. It's not perfectly fair, since the starting permutations are different for different contestants, but it does a good job at figuring out who the fastest solvers are.
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> the starting permutations are different for different contestants,

This seems silly, why? Because they don't solve simultaneously so there is a risk of information leakage?