Tired of waiting until Sunday to trailblaze? Wait no more!

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Eyewirers, we have exciting news. As part of some ongoing changes to our system of measuring accuracy, it is HQ’s pleasure to announce that starting today, your ability to trailblaze cubes will no longer be calculated on a weekly basis, but rather based on your most recent 30 cubes. If you lose your TB ability after a series of bad traces, it’s easier for you to regain it just by tracing well. Likewise, if you trace well for a while and then start to trace badly, you will more quickly lose TB ability once your accuracy slips too far (but, again, just trace well to bring it back!). We hope you will enjoy this more dynamic trailblazing experience, as it should mean more accurate TBs are submitted while you simultaneously don’t wait for days to get back TBs.

As for how you can verify your trailblazing ability, take a look at your new and improved profile:

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Your 30-cube accuracy calculation is now displayed on two different bars, one for how you do on Level 1 cells, the other for how you do on Level 2 cells. To TB at Level 1, you need 70% accuracy. To TB at Level 2, you need 80% accuracy.

If you want to see whether you tend to overcolor or undercolor, hover over these new bars and the display will change:

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Now you can visually see the ratio of overcoloring (blue) to undercoloring (yellow). If you move your mouse away, the display will change back to the default view.

Related to this, your player weight will now be calculated from your last 30 cubes as well. The weighting process and its applicability are going to change in the future, but for now, this is already an improvement to our older method, so we’re rolling it out. Stay tuned for more accuracy updates in the next couple months!

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