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Cross study updated

Many people have asked me over the years what the scrambles are for the 8 move crosses based on my cross study. Unfortunately, the way the computer study was done back in 2008 didn't allow recuperating the cube states for the worst possible crosses afterwards.

The last few weeks I've been working on a full reimplementation of the code that generated these results and I'm happy to say that the all the results are consistent and I get the exact same stats.

Now that I have something that runs the whole analysis on a modern machine and finishes in 2-3 days, I was finally customize it to also generate the scrambles for the worst cases. The cross study page has been updated accordingly and now links to the scrambles for each cross solving method (fixed, opposite and color neutral).

Here are the direct links to the scrambles as well:

• 8 move fixed color crosses (102 cases)
• 8 move opposite color crosses (3672 cases)
• 8 move color neutral crosses (40 cases)

(26th May 2026)

ImageCube and ImageRevenge scripts fixed

The PHP scripts for ImageCube and ImageRevenge have been fixed for modern PHP versions and are now hosted on cubezone.be again.

(2nd January 2026)

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Last update on 26th May 2026