I actually think this is pretty good! I got 22 cycles halfway through the week, and then another two days after that, I managed to shave it down to 20. That was very tricky. I think managing min cycles on this puzzle is probably the hardest thing I have ever done in this game. All the atom groups have to take carefully curated paths to get where they need to go without running into anything else.

After that, I shaved off a pretty significant amount of area and I'm quite happy with what I have. I am excited to see how the solves that beat me manage it.

p.s. symmetry is pretty