vfmc 1.5.0

A virtual FMC attempt tool

VFMC

VFMC is a tool for practicing FMC attempts virtually.

See video explanation here

Installation

Windows and Mac executables can be found here

On any platform, you can also install and run from the command line:

# Requires Python version 3.9 or later:
python --version

# Install with pip
python -m pip install vfmc

# Run
vfmc

If the above installation fails on Linux, try:

RUSTFLAGS="-C target-feature=+avx2" pip install vfmc

Approach

VFMC tracks all the steps of an FMC attempt: EO - DR - HTR - (FR) - Finish - Insertions.

A realistic alternative to pencil+paper+cube

Find similar solutions to what you would find in a manual attempt. You should be able to do it more quickly than in a manual attempt, because you can cut out time normally spent scrambling, NISS-ing, and recovering from mistakes.

Depth-vs-breadth trade-offs

Decide how many solutions to write down for each step, and how much time to spend on each of them. Decide what works best for you.

Case recognition

See, at each step, the case name for getting to the next step, and show the bad pieces that must be solved to get there.

Optimal solutions for each step

Use the integrated solver, from cubelib, to find the shortest solution for reaching the next step that hasn't been written down already.