cppcube

About

cppcube is a Rubik's Cube speedsolving timer in the terminal using ncurses. It is capable of generating scrambles and views of NxNxN cubes, and can export sessions and display basic summary statistics. UI design is inspired by the legendary https://cstimer.net.

I can't get orange to display properly with ncurses yet - for now, the purple colour shown in cube views represents orange, and the other orange-looky one is for yellow. This is quite a substantial drawback and I'll try my best to resolve it.

Build

Here are build requirements:

• g++ with c++17 support
• make
• ncurses

To build cppcube:

1. Clone the repository.
2. Run make in the top-level repository folder.
3. Then, just run ./main.

Controls

Maybe I'll get arrow key controls for navigation, but for the meantime, these keyboard controls are the way to go.

Key	Function
<Space>	Start, stop timing
2	Toggle +2 penalty on most recent time
d	Toggle DNF penalty on most recent time
x	Delete most recent time
<Shift> + 2/d/x	Apply deletion/penalty to selected time
p	Change puzzle type
n	Generate new scramble
<Up>/<Down>	Scroll through recorded times
i	Show info for selected time
j	Jump to index in recorded times
t	Jump to top of recorded times
b	Jump to bottom of recorded times
g	Generate summary statistics
E (shift)	Export times
L (shift)	Import times
h	Display help pop-up
v	Display cube view in pop-up
s	Display scramble in popup-up

File Export/Import

cppcube will ask for a filename to export and import solves. As of now, only exporting to and importing from files in the same directory as the executable is allowed.

What about the previous cppcube?

The original cppcube was simply a header and .cpp file providing an NxNxN cube model. There was also code to measure performance, and an equivalent Python implementation of the algorithm. The Python code can be found in /python. For the cube model, see /src/include/cubes.h, /src/include/cubes.tpp and src/model/cubes.cpp. The interface has changed, but the model can still print a net of the cube to std::cout using void CubeModel::coutDisplayNet().