[r-t] 8-spliced touch

[Jack Peter Gunning]

In August 2008 PJE24 asked:

> I have a problem that should be fairly simple to
> solve.  Much as I dislike them, I'm interested in the most musical  
> short
> touch of the so-called "standard" 8 surprise major methods. The
> constraints are:
>
> - The touch should contain all 8 methods, with a change of method  
> only at
> the leadhead.
>
> - Bobs (14) and Singles (1234) at the leadhead are fine.
>
> - The length of the touch should be between 253 changes (ie comes  
> round at
> handstroke snap just before 8 leads) and 258 changes (comes round at
> backstroke snap).
>
> - Music is defined by occurance of <4-runs> - each appearance of 1234,
> 2345, 3456, 4567 or 5678 (or their reverses) in a row scores 1. (So  
> rounds
> scores 5, the row 56784321 scores 2 etc).
>
> - Truth is not essential, but should ideally be recorded so a sub- 
> list of
> true touches can be compared.
>
> - As a supplement, I'd also be interested in the results of touches  
> up to
> both 9 leads (+ 2 changes), and 10 leads (+ 2 changes).
>
> The problem is so constrained that I would have thought it should be
> possible to solve exhuastively without too much trouble.  Can  
> anybody do
> this and supply the results?  Indeed, has anyone done this before?
>
> There are some web-resources which are sort of useful, eg MBD's Elf,  
> but
> this can't cope with coming round at the snap, false touches, etc.
To which I can find no answers on the list archives, have I missed any?

I set myself the following criteria to find touches:

-Use only MBD's Elf to find touches.
-The touch may contain all 8 methods.
-The touch may be up to 8 leads long.
-Use Elf's music scoring to rank touches.

My favourite of the touches I found was:

224 6-spliced, gen. Elf

2345678
4263857 L
3527486 S
7856342 N
6482735 Y
4235678 C-
3425678 B-
2345678 B-

Music = 24

As it contains 6 of the standard 8 and the most music.

Does anyone have a favourite touch of 8-spliced, or an answer to  
Philip's problem above?

Jack


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