Weekly competition 2009-15

[MichaelErskine]

Michael Erskine
2x2x2: (55.84) (terrible failure at OLL had to start again), 38.08, 51.61 (PLL failed and had to start again), (6.27) (ridiculously easy solve with full LL skip), 29.98 = 39.88 (most annoying: I've been learning an LBL method and I had done a set of 12 practice solves and achieved a 24 sec average )
3x3x3: 46.34, 51.90, 46.24, (1:07.89) (daughter distracting me!), (39.49) (easy cross and F2L) = 48.96
4x4x4: (4:26.22) (bah! OLL parity then PLL parity), 3:45.93 (2nd look OLL skip, PLL parity), 3:08.09 (no parity PB?), 3:36.42 (happy), (3:07.46) (v. happy) = 3:30.15 (wow! I may be able to enter UK Masters 4x4x4 after all!)
5x5x5:
7x7x7: (16:32.00), 17:18.00, 21:17.00 (Grrr! Messed up CCW A-Perm and had to go back to fix F2L), 19:57.00 (another CCW A-Perm fail but recovered by trial and error), (22:01.00) (pretty sick of the 7x7x7 now) = 19:30.67
Pyraminx: 19.45, (19.27), 22.03, (26.07), 21.52 = 21.00 (meh, should've practised!)
Megaminx: 6:50.47, (6:19.40), 7:15.58, 6:50.02, (7:56.95) = 06:58.69

Snake:

[luisgepeto]

3x3x3
26.46, 24.05, 23.50, (DNF), (21.33) = 24.67
2x2x2
8.62, 7.64, (10.33), (2.24), 6.54 = 7.60
Pyraminx :|
14.59, (10.26), 11.36, 14.54, (16.15) = 13.50

[JustinJ]

2x2: 5.13, 5.02, (DNF), (1.53), 6.02 = 5.39

Finally a good average in weekly comp.

3x3; 21.41, 19.02, (24.27), 23.77, (15.77) = 21.40

The last one was a really nice F2l, then anti-sune and a PLL skip!

Great average for me.

Pyraminx: 6.18, (5.93), 9.33, 9.93, (10.00) = 8.48

After the first two I was freaking out -
Pb average

3x3OH: 48.59, 47.02, (55.83), 51.44, (40.40) = 49.01

Sub 50

4x4: 1:40.93(O), 1:43.36, (1:38.53)(P), 1:45.09(O), DNF = 1:43.13
Didn’t start the timer on the last one.
Pretty consistent, and good.

234: 2:18:18

Good 2x2, about 5.5. DP on the 4x4 though.

[Lord Voldemort]

2x2x2: 7.05, 2.33, 7.41, 7.79, 7.63 = 7.36
Gotta love that consistency The 4th scramble was dumb though
3x3x3: 24.79, 21.35, 22.05, 22.02, 20. = 21.80
No sub 20 But also nothing higher than 25
2x2x2 BLD: DNF DNF DNF = DNF
3x3x3 OH: DNF, 52.70, 58.87, 57.94, 44.45 = 56.50
7x7x7: 16:27.36, 15:29.23, 14:33.05, 14.42.91, 13.06.79 = 14:55.06
Yay! Improvement with almost every solve
And Sub-15 average in 9 days. I'm rather proud of my progress
4x4x4: (DNF), (2:06.88), 2:12.74, 2:51.86, 2:37.62 = 2:34.07
I messed up on my OLL parity, and the solve was sub 2.... Ok average.
5x5x5: 4:26.64, 4:14.61, 4:33.20, (4:38.70), (4:13.34) = 4:24.82
A PB, but I usually don't time myself on 5x5x5 for averages. Still, better than usual.
2-4 Relay: 3:11.18
2-5 Relay: 8:01.18
Frankly, I'm rather disappointed with the relays...
3x3x3 BLD: DNF (19:15.17), DNF (31:46.53), DNF (46:10.95) (For now)
1st - Forgot to account for parity. 2nd - I don't know what happened, but off by 6 pieces. Let's try one more time tomorrow.

3x3x3 FMC - 48
F' D R2 U2 R' D L2 - 2x2x2 Block (7)
U' R' F R2 F - 2x2x3 Block (12)
U' F R' F2 B U2 F' B 9 (20)
U B U B' (24) F2L
F R U R' U' F' y R U R' U R U2 R (37) OLL
y R2 U' R' U' R U R U R U' R' (48)
exactly half and half for F2L and LL.

[DavidWoner]

Originally Posted by MatsBergsten

2 scrambles for 2x2 BLD are exactly alike. And some (at least one) scramble for 2x2 cannot be considered scrambled???

The other issue: It was randomly scrambled with the official scrambler. Good luck breaking the WR

Was it really? I thought the WCA scrambler was supposed be random state with a minimum depth of 6 or 7.

I think if this happens again you should go to Ron's solver and find a longer depth for that scramble. I have a feeling a lot of people might have performed that as y' x' U' R2 R2 F2 R2 or something similar if they hadn't seen the optimal solution. This makes the weekly comp a bit more like real competitions, see as how competitors wouldn't know if an easy 3 move scramble came up.

[MatsBergsten]

Mats
2x2: 10.74 31.32 1:01.22 12.29 30.36 = 24.66
The large improvement comes from doing with inspection
3x3: 53.16 57.76 44.26 55.52 1:04.46 = 55.48
Only one over one minute! (and that was a pop)
4x4: 4:19.78 4:21.32 3:42.50 3:23.73 3:56.03 = 3:59.44
Somewhat worse than last week
5x5: 7:51.83 10:04.51 10:32.13 12:39.20 10:51.81 = 10:29.48
First was single PB, the rest not so good
2x2BLD: DNF 50.36 43.35 = 43.35
Two sub 60!
3x3BLD: DNF DNF 3:48.14 = 3:48.14
Bad but I had to safe the last
4x4BLD: DNF DNF 17:36 = 17:36
OK
5x5BLD: 36:52 DNF DNF = 36:52
OK
Multi: 5/5 45:14 (30:12)
PB WHOA!! And some minutes to spare. Can perhaps add one for six in an hour
2-4Rel: 5:11.51
2-5Rel: 12:29.56 PB with 3 minutes!!
MTS BLD: DNF 4:37.35 DNF DNF (only a 3-c corners off) DNF = DNF

@Michael, please don't call your times pitiful, what should I then call mine???
We are just not as fast as the younger guys. And we have more room for improvement

[tsaoenator]

Andy Tsao
3x3x3: 12.18, 11.11, 11.10, (14.99), (11.00) = 11.46 not bad for no warmup
5x5x5: (2:05.43), 2:03.49, 1:51.10, (1:37.90), 1:52.47 = 1:55.69 terrible

[wrbcube4]

Will

2x2x2: 6.59, 8.95, 8.66, 6.88, 9.11 Average = 8.16

[fazrulz]

2x2: 4.80, (5.12), 4.25, (0.69), 3.59 = 4.21
Wonie beat me!
3x3: (15.06), 11.94, 11.20, 11.47, (9.61) = 11.54
Sub 10 was no lucky.
4x4: (55.84), 45.97, 47.88, 53.50, (41.12) = 49.12
The last one was 23 redux. LL at 32. Pll parity. I got nervous because I looked at the timer, and stuffed up. Breakdown 7-16-18
5x5: (1:27.00), 1:42.20, (2:06.31), 1:39.33, 1:39.31 = 1:40.28
Good
2x2BLD: 21.27, (19.89), (43.75) = 19.89
Nice.
3x3BLD: 2:27.02, 2:19.67, DNF = 2:19.67
Meh.
MultiBLD 0/2 in 10:37
1: Needed to shoot an edge to one more location. 2: cube was oriented incorrectly somehow.
4x4BLD DNF (25:22), DNS, DNS
1. Off by 12 centers
3x3OH 26.22, (30.75), 26.73, 25.45, (24.62) = 26.13
Arrgh crap.
234: 1:08.47
4-11-53
2345: 3:02.37
Meh.
Magic: (1.36), (2.02), 1.63, 1.38, 1.41 = 1.47
Meh.
FMC: B U2 B2 U’ R U L2 U L2 D’ L D R z’ F R’ F’ R U2 L U L’ U2 R’ U2 R U2 B’ U B2 L B’ F U F’ U’ B L’ B’ R’ U R U’ R2 F’ U’ F U R F R’ F’ R2 = 52 moves
SQ1: (32.23), (50.77), 50.36, 44.11, 49.86 = 48.11
Epic fail
Megaminx: (1:22.92), (1:51.02), 1:44.36, 1:42.11, 1:31.70 = 1:39.39

[hippofluff]

2x2: 7.06 8.07 7.71 1.71(wtf) 10.16 = 7.61
3x3: 20.54 21.22 20.25 21.88 23.00 = 21.21
4x4: 1:13.83 1:25.74 1:21.08 1:26.54 1:48.13 = 1:24.45
5x5: 2:24.56 2:34.60 3:04.96 2:52.88 2:48.77 = 2:43.65