About PowerCubers
I came back to cubing after 10 years and could not find a timer I liked. Some felt dated, others were overloaded with features I did not need, and a few had the right ideas but rough edges that made daily use annoying. So I opened a code editor and started building the one I wanted to find.
What you get today
PowerCubers is early. This is the foundation, not the finished product. But the foundation is solid and everything here works.
WCA-compliant timer
15-second inspection, hold-to-start, +2 and DNF penalties. Scrambles for all 17 WCA events. The core loop works the way it should.
Stats that matter
PBs, Ao5, Ao12, Ao100. Progression charts, distribution histograms, event comparison. Not phase-level (that needs smart cubes), but everything timestamps and scrambles can tell you.
Daily Challenges
One scramble per event, per day, shared globally. One attempt. A leaderboard. You compete against every other PowerCubers user, every day.
Labels and tags
Tag solves with the cube you used, the method you tried, or whatever context matters to you. Filter and analyze by label. This is the foundation for cross-user analytics down the road.
Public profiles
Every profile is public. Your PBs, solve history, event breakdown, and daily challenge record are visible to any cuber who visits your profile.
Guest mode vs. account
No account: Solves stay in your browser (up to 25 per event). Fast, no signup, no friction.
With account: Everything syncs to a database. Full history, no limits, labels, tags, daily challenges, and a public profile.
Where this is going
The list of things I want to build is long. Nothing has a fixed timeline. I ship things when they are ready and the community's input shapes what comes next.
- Reports by label: how do your times on a GAN compare to your MoYu? How does focused practice compare to casual solves?
- Cross-user analytics by label, community-level insights built from individual data, opt-in and anonymized.
- Parties: private or public rooms where a group of cubers share the same scramble and compete in real time.
- A PowerCubers Wrapped for cubing, your year in solves. Total count, best month, most improved event, consistency trends.
- Practice modes and drills: structured practice beyond "do another solve."
- Better analytics: more charts, more metrics, more ways to slice your data.
Other timers have been around for years and do things PowerCubers does not do yet. That is fine. The gap will close, and some of the ideas on the roadmap do not exist anywhere else. If you are a cuber and any of this resonates, try it out.