The blindfold race!

[Mike Hughey]

Javirk, I say go ahead and post what you were going to post. Clearly there is demand to go ahead and start, we're all anxious to Go ahead and post your first week scrambles, we can consider this first set that's already posted as a warm-up if you want.

I think that would be great if you'd just count this as a warmup; I just really felt like doing some BLD, and there were some scrambles! I would actually prefer there be more than 5 scrambles, just to make it that much more different from the weekly competition. I really liked Chris's original suggestion:

Best of n (where ) and you must successfully complete at least of your solves.

(I like that it allows those who only want to do a few solves to compete with those of us who want to do lots of solves.) But I will go along with whatever you guys decide if you want to do something different.

[javirk]

No, the first week scrambles are those because they are already posted, but on the next weeks, I will post them.
But, UberCuber, edit your message and wirte a big 1 on the top

EDIT: this message was a reply to cmhardw, but Mike has pressed the "post" button first.

[That70sShowDude]

DNF
2:15.49
2:12.71
2:18.58
DNF

Eh, times were kind of slow, but not bad for me. Is there a preferred format to display the times?

[uberCuber]

No, the first week scrambles are those because they are already posted, but on the next weeks, I will post them.
But, UberCuber, edit your message and wirte a big 1 on the top

EDIT: this message was a reply to cmhardw, but Mike has pressed the "post" button first.

k, put Round 1 at the top of my message.
I just posted them real quick when I saw Chris's request for scrambles because I wasn't sure exactly how long it would be before you came back online and posted in the thread.
I also like Chris's idea of having 12 scrambles and making it the person's individual choice of how many to do. I think it would be a nice thing to try next round.

[aronpm]

Best single: 46.19
Average of 5: 52.18

55.36
50.58
DNF 42.58
50.61
46.19

I shouldn't do BLD when I just wake up, I can't turn fast enough.

[kinch2002]

Time to warm up for Helsinki by spamming hundreds of Y perms and M2s
Single: 1:02.36
Average of 5: 1:21.45

1:13.36, 1:24.86, 1:26.12, DNF(1:18.05), 1:02.36

[amostay2004]

51.61, 47.13, 1:19.94, 1:01.90, DNF(43.18)

Off by 3 edges on the last one Recall delays on 3rd and 4th

[Mike Hughey]

Everyone's accuracy is pretty nice - only one person so far has failed to get an average 3/5!

It's also interesting that so far, it doesn't matter whether you take averages or best singles - the ranking is exactly the same either way.

This bodes well for my prediction that, several years from now, it might really make sense to do averages 3/5 for competitions. I know everyone thinks I'm crazy now, but mark my words, someday you'll agree with me.

[fazrulz]

52.13, DNF(49.43), 56.83, 1:00.71, 47.29

Did freestyle corners on some

[ruff48]

Wish I could participate immediately. The sad fact is that I have only recently started to learn BLD solving (with Old Pochman for Corners and M2 for edges) and have not yet attempted a full solve as I am not yet comfortable with the setup moves.

Can anyone share a bit of advice on setup moves? It seems that I cannot undo the move after performing the algorithm (Y-Perm or M2) even while looking at the cube.