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Made in 24 hours for a hackathon

How to use

Controls

The rubik's cube is controlled with the keyboard. Pres I/K to do R/R', etc. Full list of moves:

Rubik's cube notation - Key to press
R R' - I & K
L L' - D & E
F F' - G & H
U U' - J & F
D D' - S & L
M M' - 5 & X

Wide R moves - U & M
Wide L moves - R & V
Wide D moves - Z
Wide U moves - C & ,

X rotation - T & B
Y rotation - A & ;
Z rotation - Q & P

Multiplayer

To play multiplayer, one person will have a code on the top left of their screen. The other player can type this code into the Code box, then press duel. You will then be able to see the moves the other player is making in real time

What it does

Virtual rubik's cube you can control with your keyboard. You can also race against others in realtime.

How I built it

I used three.js for the cube and Firebase for the multiplayer. Firebase is certainly not the best solution, but it works so whatever.

Challenges I ran into

I struggled for like 3 hours getting the rotation of the cube to work and was buried in quaternion math. I also had a hard time with detecting if it was solved. While I did figure it out in the end, I ran out of time to implement a timer, so it was useless. Setting up Firebase also proved challenging.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

The movement feels pretty fluid and the realtime multiplayer aspect is cool.

Inspiration

https://cstimer.net/ has a virtual cube that was the main inspiration.

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To run locally

1. clone git repo
2. Navigate to the file in the terminal: cd path/to/file
3. Run the folowing

   # install dependencies
   npm install
   # run the program
   npx vite