My new cycles record (AKA the sketchiest etch-a-sketch)

Game: TIS-100 store.steampow...
Subreddit: / tis100
Discord: / discord
A little detail about the ways I think about cycles records and image levels in TIS-100, and a walkthrough of my new record on SPATIAL PATH VIEWER.

[@rubix4716]

You missed the opportunity to call it an "Etch-a-Sketchy".

[@Riokaii]

its weird that the terminology used describes these as "cheating" solutions and not something more tongue in cheek of their actual behavior like a "broken clock" solution (because it's correct twice a day :P)

[@Robomandude]

This isnt cheating, this is exploiting the clear condition. I disagree with calling these strategies cheat solutions.

[@biggiemac42]

The game lets you land a score on your personal leaderboard if one random test passes, that's true!
The community/reddit leaderboards are more strict: a simulator runs several thousand seeded-random tests and to be the acknowledged record for a level it must pass all of them. Those that pass more than 5% and less than 100% are designated "cheating", those that pass less than 5% are designated "hardcoding", and a separate table exists showing the best known stats for those categories.
The names may not be perfect, but I'm at least glad that the different behaviors are recognized separately.