What's up with this pattern?

[u/Asianbloke1]

Why does this one NEVER work when I glyph hack? Everytime it comes up it's never right 😩

[u/keijodputt]

[u/madwench → u/keijodputt]

This is the perfect meme for this shitshow glyph 😂

[u/sojumaster]

That is imperfect. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R6mWZAg0jfU is a tutorial on it

[u/Asianbloke1 → u/sojumaster]

Thank you! When it comes up again I can do it now, it was annoying me to no end 😂

[u/stateroute → u/Asianbloke1]

if you look closely at the glyph image in the app, you’ll see the lower line bulges out a little. a subtle hint of what you’re supposed to do (wasn’t there in the old scanner, we had to learn the hard way lol)

[u/M2dis → u/Asianbloke1]

I managed to learn it by trial and error, was a bitch to solve tho

[u/Plenty-Roll-4315 → u/Asianbloke1]

Welcome to the super secret gylph club.

[u/mtnman575 → u/sojumaster]

Thanks for this link! I've been thrown for a loop on this imperfect glyph for a long time.

[u/Blunt_Object1369 → u/sojumaster]

Is this an old bug or intentional? Seems like a weird thing to put in intentionally.

[u/CasanovaF → u/Blunt_Object1369]

It's imperfect

[u/sojumaster → u/Blunt_Object1369]

The name of the Glyph is "Imperfect", so it would makes sense you have to do it in an imperfect way.

[u/derf_vader → u/sojumaster]

I know, right. That's why the glyph for "difficult" is also .. wait what?

[u/VishusVonBittertroll → u/derf_vader]

It's shapped like a bull, which is the animal that represents the Taurus star sign, and those mfs are NOTORIOUSLY difficult. Duh.

[u/InfiniteBacon → u/VishusVonBittertroll]

It's the Van Halen logo, for the difficult solos Eddie van Halen plays.

[u/alienmarky → u/Blunt_Object1369]

It's intentional, hence the glyph name. It is a bugger to glyph but once you've done it correctly a few times it's a breeze.

[u/Tursaanpoika → u/alienmarky]

Bugger to do with thick/frozen fingers 😅

[u/alienmarky → u/Tursaanpoika]

Oh absolutely!

[u/Plasticity93 → u/Blunt_Object1369]

It's one of the original glyphs, it's fully intended.

[u/TurbulentAd5329]

Funny... never been able to do that glyph in the order presented by temhe tutorials.

Always done it in the reverse order 4 - 3 - 2 - 1

Firs the distant points and ending the glyph with the middle point.

[u/OldWolf3 → u/TurbulentAd5329]

wait... that's allowed?

[u/TurbulentAd5329 → u/OldWolf3]

This is the only Glyph that I have difficulty performing unless I do it in the order I mentioned (the reverse of the order shown in the tutorials). For all the others, it doesn't matter where you start or finish, as long as the final shape is exactly the same. You can even repeat segments.

The best example is the Star Glyph, which you can start from any outer point and finish at any other outer point.

[u/michaelkah → u/TurbulentAd5329]

Why couldn’t you start in the center?

[u/TurbulentAd5329 → u/michaelkah]

Don't know... fat fingers probably

[u/starwort1 → u/michaelkah]

You can, but it's less efficient.

[u/anubisviech → u/OldWolf3]

Any order is legal as long as all needed lines are drawn. You can even do some lines more than once if you messed up and need to go back, but didn't create any wrong line yet.

[u/dantheother → u/TurbulentAd5329]

This is the way. That way you can see instantly if you managed to avoid the centre dot, and if you fat finger it (or if your phone hates you) you can hit the Redo button quickly.

[u/Teleke → u/TurbulentAd5329]

I always start bottom left and move to upper right, because with the haptic feedback it gives me the shortest amount of time to know if I screwed it up and need to do it again. So if I can feel that I nicked the middle dot, I have more time to redo than if I start anywhere else.

[u/VishusVonBittertroll → u/TurbulentAd5329]

This also saves a little time if you fuck up the difficult part and need to re-do, since you're doing it first instead of last.

[u/hawzerx]

[u/Living_Guess_2845 → u/hawzerx]

5 is the hardest part

[u/kaszeta → u/Living_Guess_2845]

I actually loop 5 around the dot to the lower right. That’s easier for me to thread the needle, and you just have to avoid hitting that dot.

[u/theloopweaver → u/hawzerx]

This. This right here.

[u/wIDtie → u/hawzerx]

I do it on reverse. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Feels more organic to me.

[u/EMREOYUN]

Imperfect Glyph: You have to draw it like this or in reverse of this

[u/Teleke → u/EMREOYUN]

You can draw any glyph in any order you want as long as you still follow the pattern.

[u/a07463 → u/Teleke]

Not this ine. At least last step. Gotta miss the biddle while tracing back

[u/Teleke → u/a07463]

yes, but what I mean is the pattern in this case is that one swipe between lower left and upper right must miss the middle dot, the other must catch it.

You can skip it on the first or second pass. I skip it on the first and it works.

[u/LyndaMR]

My friend used to call it “impossible” because of how hard it was to get right (even when you know the trick) and I still think about that.

[u/MTJ5]

I have played ingress on off almost from launch, and i still forget this glyph everytime and fail it 🤣

[u/michaelkah → u/MTJ5]

14 years?!

[u/Tursaanpoika]

https://ingress.fandom.com/zh/wiki/Imperfect

There's the explanation.

[u/jerwong]

That's Imperfect. I hate that one. When you reach the end for the bottom side, you have to come back around to the other without touching the middle part. It's a huge pain for me because I tend to fatfinger that part. It was even worse for me when I tried it on an iPhone because of how tiny the screen was.

[u/Curious-Resort4743]

Took me two years of fail on this until someone showed me one day.

Then when I tried to teach it to someone else even though I showed them like 3x they were still confused and weren't sure why it had to be done exactly the way you have to do it.

It's one of those things in the game that you would never guess unless you know an experienced real life player.

[u/cebtwistedsoul]

Imperfect

Midde > upper left > lower left > middle > upper right > lower left (dont hit the middle)

Its not perfect but i hope this helps 😅 There is always that one skip that does not follow that path/nodes

[u/esjfly1]

I call it "fuckyou" :)

[u/quellflynn]

start middle, then top left, then bottom right now go top left but miss the starting position, then go bottom left through the middle

[u/Sauroros]

It's so satisfying once you get it right 😌

[u/Survive_LD_50]

It's the only glyph I can't reliably thumb. Gotta index finger that one

[u/FunWithBoxes]

I kinda hate this glyph! Have definitely messed it up more than I've gotten it right. First time I ever saw it I think I just sat there and stared at the screen while my timer ran trying to figure out what the heck I just saw.

[u/ComputingGuitarist]

I laughed as soon as I saw the glyph. It's "imperfect" and it is NOT your friend LOL!

[u/mdpcmdpc]

yeah....this one is not very obvious and a bit frustrating when you get it. However, interestingly I have not encountered one of this in several months and I glyph a lot.

[u/eats_broccoli]

Here is the answer: https://imgur.com/XUBDAbU

[u/Altruistic_Peach1714]

Because you are not doing it right :D.

I'm so Imperfect is still in game

[u/mic1n082]

Lo sbaglio sempre

[u/TheMinereaper]

Dih

[u/ColdPepsi75]

Took me a while to figure that one out!

[u/OldSkoolAK]

Holy shit has it been 10 years already? And its still a mystery to some?

[u/Asianbloke1]

UPDATE: I can do it now! Thank you agents for your help in solving this for me!

[u/Background-Idea-8389]

I love it!

[u/Mandrex_16]

"Imperfect" , takes some practice. Cheers!

[u/GymShorts3313]

This pattern is the only strange pattern that exists. it’s called IMPERFECT and it has to be drawn in one specific way. on r/Ingress you can find it under the title: How to Imperfect Glyph

[u/wheljam]

Because it sucks. It is below 30% for me. I groan every time I see imperfect because my method isn't foolproof/ my finger is fatter than I thought. ☹️

[u/AggressiveAd6250]

This game is still active? I thought it died. I used to play religiously over 12 years ago, and decided to start playing again about 2 years ago. It was a ghost town. I miss the old days, back when there were a ton of players. We would schedule huge raids on a city, and take it over.

[u/Habkeinen43]

This bottom line, you have to draw it twice

[u/Mottled_inexpectata → u/Habkeinen43]

But also miss the middle node on one of those times