Weekly competition 2009-40

3x3- 17.15
17.67, (14.43), 16.01, (24.80), 17.77
Comment: Stupid japanese color scheme I had to use.

oh- 32.95
27.99, 33.03, (25.44), (DNF), 37.82
Comment: Stupid last 2 solves.

2x2- 3.10
3.14, 3.84, 2.33, (2.31), (4.19)
Comment: I totally could have sub-3'd this but i my 2x2 has been lost for over a week and i did a single average of 5 to warm-up.

name: Rodrigo Ybarra
2x2: 13.10 ,(4.44) ,11.71 , 9.80 ,(DNF)=11.54

2x2x2 : 6.41, (4.98), 5.92, 6.59, (8.95) = 6.31
wow, easy scrambles

3x3x3 : 26.86, 25.75, (DNF), 23.28, (21.02) = 25.30
popped number 3.

4x4x4 : 1:57.59, 1:51.45, (1:44.81), (2:00.52), 1:55.02 = 1:54.69

5x5x5 : (3:14.27), 3:29.92, 3:40.09, 3:51.44, (3:56.19) = 3:40.48
PB single, then it got slower and slower.

7x7x7 : 12:16.61, (13:06.52), 12:52.58, 11:07.33, (11:04.30) = 12:05.51
pb average

2x2x2 BLD : DNF, 1:38.56, DNF = 1:38.56
pants

3x3x3 BLD : DNF, DNF, DNF = DNF
bah.

Multi BLD : 0/2 = DNF
First cube had 2 flipped edges and second was 3 edges off. So close, but so far. Time was 12:42.47

3x3x3 Match : (1:21.52), (2:06.69), 1:46.59, 1:56.88, 1:47.84 = 1:50.44

3x3x3 OH : 1:13.86, (1:02.25), 1:03.34, (1:44.06), 1:03.55 = 1:06.92

2-3-4 relay : 2:38.17

2-3-4-5 relay : 6:28.33

Pyraminx : (15.06), (35.24), 21.67, 29.02, 26.42 = 25.70

Megaminx : 4:36.64, 4:37.33, 4:47.06, (4:55.28), (4:04.48) = 4:40.34

Square-1 : 1:44.91, 1:22.16, 1:20.38, 1:58.42, 1:08.74 = 1:30.92

Magic : (1.83), (1.93), 1.88, 1.93, 1.90 = 1.90
yay, sub-2 SD - 0.02

Henrik

MultiBLD: 3/5 37:44.94 min (memo 30:00)

3 wrong corners on the first one 4 corners on the 4th Im guessing memo was wrong. and two flipped edges on the 4th, I didn't memo them :S
But fast solving and easy recall.

fmc: B' U B' D L2 D F' R L' F2 D F2 D' F U B L' B2 U' F' U B U' L R D2 (27)

explanation: turn pre-scramble-move D2 to understand:
pseudo 2x2x2: B' U B' (3)
2x2x3: D L2 D F' R (9)
F2L minus pair: L' F2 D F2 D' (14)
last pair+LL edges: F U B L' B' U' F'.L R (23)
pre-move correction: D2 (24)
leaving 3 corners.
at dot insert: F U B' U' F' U B U', 5 moves cancel.

Nice F2L Mike, you could have done LL-edges in 8+1 moves leaving 25 moves for a nice corner insertion.

Gus

2x2x2: 8.25 6.77 6.66 8.40 6.58
3x3x3: 26.44 21.25 22.25 21.61 25.16
4x4x4: 1:17.19 1:23.84 1:12.22 1:16.56 1:23.53
5x5x5: 2:10.58 2:16.61 2:25.44 2:09.36 2:12.59
6x6x6: 7:03.02 5:20.21 5:02.93 5:38.53 4:33.75
7x7x7: 7:03.24 6:25.40 6:46.63 7:14.11 6:46.86
222bf: 1:07.28 43.16 DNF
333bf: 3:27.77 DNF DNF
3330h: 46.55 36.83 36.25 19.94 39.44
333mts: 57.16 50.11 1:00.15 1:11.08 59.93
234: 1:48.22
2345: 4:23.58
magic: 1.59 1.59 1.63 2.21 1.69
mmagic: 5.69 5.31 5.06 5.47 5.34
clock: 14.50 19.68 14.30 16.94 11.71
mminx: 2:48.34 2:46.44 3:13.09 3:05.02 2:50.81
pminx: 11.59 9.66 11.80 15.31 12.03
sq1: 44.86 1:13.11 48.94 57.13 37.02

Lots of nice averages and some ridiculous singles. So I decided to bold some stuff. I guess I am mostly ready for Worlds.
Now if only I had a decent 6x6x6 that didn't lock or poop pieces all over the place....
...and had the time the actually learn big cubes blind

Really late this week =\

2x2: (4.08), (2.84), 4.00, 3.43, 4.03 = 3.82

3x3: (12.50), 11.61, 10.11, 12.00, (9.94) = 11.24

4x4: (1:09.80), 56.66, (56.03), 56.91, 59.30 = 57.62

5x5: 1:58.52, (2:02.61), 1:42.19, (1:36.40), 1:55.77 = 1:52.16

OH: 19.16, (20.16), 20.15, (15.96), 18.30 = 19.20

2-4 Relay: 1:11.75

Pyra: (6.81), (3.83), 6.03, 5.40, 6.47 = 5.96

Mats B

2x2: 16.60 19.50 29.93 14.32 15.55 = 17.22
Good, but the 29.93 almost was 11, then I missed an alg
3x3: 62.57 41.67 43.01 41.75 71.43 = 49.11
Could easily have been my best ever.
4x4: 3:18.81 3:17.77 3:37.85 5:20.24 3:01.38 = 3:24.81
5x5: 9:07.98 9:54.06 9:06.10 8:39.36 8:10.46 = 8:57.81
Don't seem to improve in 4 & 5. Then of course I never do these apart
from the five weekly solves.
2-4Rel: 6:03.19
2-5Rel: 13:03.65


BLD
6x6: DNF [BLD, 1:32 (0:55)], 20:11 dns, dns, dns = DNF
Rather good effort if not as good as last weeks. Maarten and I discussed
bld solves with only slice centres off. (I had a 5x5 some months ago that
looked like that) He noticed that if you use M2/r2 and mishandle the M2/r2
move twice you can get a dnf cube like that. I think he is correct but I have
not been able to "purify" the moves to get one. Anyhow, this 6x6 solve had
a centre slice like that, but then some other errors too. On the other hand I
do not use M2 or r2 any longer, but have the same buffer so at some moves
I use M2. Anyhow it feels like I will succeed with a 6x6 sometime not too far off.

2x2BLD: 44.17 dnf 48.83 = 44.17 ok
3x3BLD: dnf 2:55.56 dnf = 2:55.56
rather bad. I mishandled the only successful solve which was rather lucky.
But I did not realize that but broke into a new cycle at an edge which was
already in my already solved ones (but the other piece). So memo was
almost two minutes.
4x4BLD: dnf 12:49 dnf = 12:49 ok
5x5BLD: dnf (23:54) 29:07 dnf (20:17) = 29:07
This is actually a new PB, but I am not satisfied with that. Of course it is not
surprising that the slowest solve is the one that is correct, but the third solve
was almost lucky (and that never happens with a 5x5) and it was only three
centres off. Imagine almost sub-20!!
Multi: 5/7 = 3 in 56:02, memo 38:30
I did not succeed this time either. The last one was a 3-cycle corners off because
I recalled a letter wrongly. One cube I had lost the centres. While it was still
almost solved the down centre was at front. I changed memo too, this time I
tried to make one sentence only (not quadruples) for each of edges and centres
per cube. It was a little harder to keep track of parity this way, but recalling I
think was easier (even if I slipped up one piece)

On to week 41!!

A pretty good week for me. I still need to do 6x6x6 BLD and multi; I’ll try to get them done later today.

Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 8.81, 3.96, 13.58, 8.16, 12.81 = 9.93
3x3x3: 32.47, 25.77, 23.69, 24.65, 21.88 = 24.70
4x4x4: 1:53.55 [O], 1:44.15 [OP], 1:30.40, 1:46.25 [OP], 1:36.80 [O] = 1:42.40
5x5x5: 2:38.47, 2:53.05, 2:27.13, 2:48.55, 2:42.55 = 2:43.19
6x6x6: 5:34.83, 5:53.90 [OP], 5:38.41 [O], 5:21.81 [O], 39:51.43 [17:45] = 5:42.38
Comment: BLD solve went pretty nice except for a few memory recall delays. It could have been pretty fast if it hadn't been for them. It's nice to finally get a really big cube BLD again - it's been several weeks since I got one right.
7x7x7: 7:51.84, 7:28.41, 7:55.63, 7:47.76, DNF [1:14:46.20, 31:45] = 7:51.74
Comment: BLD solve was off by 9 inner wings, 6 outer wings, and 2 centrals flipped, plus an F2. I had a terrible time with the memorization – I just couldn’t get it to stick, so I knew I’d be in trouble on the solve, and I was. I saved some of both the inner and outer wings for last because I couldn’t remember them, and apparently I forgot to do an F2 somewhere, which left all of the rest of the wings wrong. The 2 centrals were due to my messing up handling of parity for a case that I often mess up – hopefully I’ll never make that mistake again now. This was a disaster – that makes 4 7x7x7 DNFs in a row.
2x2x2 BLD: 46.30, 45.18, 44.00 = 44.00
Comment: Sorry, Mats – I just barely beat you. These were all hard for me.
3x3x3 BLD: 1:44.81, 1:54.59, DNF = 1:44.81
4x4x4 BLD: 7:35.33 [4:08], 9:53.39 [5:10], 7:53.84 [3:48] = 7:35.33
Comment: Wow – a good week for me on 4x4x4 BLD! All 3 under ten minutes and successful, and two of them sub-8! Amazing.
5x5x5 BLD: DNF [16:18.82, 8:45], DNF [22:20.99, 8:24], 14:55.60 [8:04] = 14:55.60
Comment: First one was off by 3 centrals – I memorized H instead of F for one piece. Second one was off by 10 wings – I realized while solving that I had made a mistake memorizing (I had the same letter twice), and I tried to recall visually to correct for it, but just wound up messing everything up instead. It was very frustrating, because I was on world-record pace with this solve until I hit that problem. But the third solve made up for it – fast enough to be the world record – for about 2 days. (I had to go ahead and post this now so I’d be in time to still claim this.) My prediction for worlds: new 5x5x5 BLD world record will be 12:10 – Rafal will be angry about having DNFed both 4x4x4s, and so he will take it nice and slow and get it right. Chris and Mondo will also both beat Chris’s former world record, but won’t be fast enough to beat Rafal's "safety solve".
3x3x3 multiBLD: 4/4 = 4 points, 21:10.11 [12:24]
Comment: I know it's slow, but hey, give me a break - I did this immediately after finishing my 6x6x6 BLD, and it was 3 AM. I was a little tired. Sorry I didn't have time this week for a real attempt.
3x3x3 OH: 41.97, 42.88, 36.80, 40.69, 52.91 = 41.85
3x3x3 WF: 1:50.34, 1:36.66, DNF, 1:46.13, 1:53.66 = 1:50.04
Comment: On the DNF, the timer read 13.18 when I finished. I must have accidentally stopped it. (Either that or I’ve gotten really good!)
3x3x3 Match the scramble: 1:24.96, 1:47.30, 1:37.77, 1:27.18, 1:33.96 = 1:32.97
2-4 relay: 2:53.40 [P]
Comment: The 2x2x2 was a disaster – it took over 30 seconds. That’s why this was so bad. I really need to work on 2x2x2.
2-5 relay: 5:23.61 [O]
Magic: 2.02, 1.78, 1.65, 2.08, 4.11 = 1.96
Master Magic: 3.78, 5.91, 4.80, 8.36, 4.05 = 4.92
Clock: 19.08, 21.77, 19.71, 21.34, 17.58 = 20.04
MegaMinx: 3:10.71, 2:41.93, 3:00.49, 2:49.07, 2:29.12 = 2:50.50
Pyraminx: 21.34, 15.59, 22.80, 20.81, 14.84 = 19.25
Square-1: 56.46, 42.71, 39.31, 40.63, 34.00 = 40.88
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 33 moves
Comment: See solution earlier in thread.

3x3x3 Fewest Moves: L F' U' F2 L' D L2 D L R2 U2 L' U L' R' D R' D' R D R' L D B D' B' R D2 R' D' R D2 L' D R (35)

Premove + Scramble: R2 + L2 F2 U R2 B2 D' L2 U L2 D' R2 B2 U' R2 F' D' F2 L2 F' R F2

1x2x2: L F' U' F2 (4/4)
Opposite 1x2x2: L' D L2 D (4/8)
Triple x-cross: L R2 U2 L' U L' R2 (7/15)
Last slot: R D R' D' R D R' (6/21)
OLL: L D B D' B' L' (5/26)
PLL: L R D2 R' D' R D2 L' D R' (9/35)

27 minutes. It was supposed to be a backup solution. I think I've lost my FMC-ness

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Unbelievably nice start that just didn't work out:

1x2x2: L F' U' F2 (4/4)
Opposite 1x2x2: L' D L2 D (4/8)
All but 4 corners and 3 edges: L R' U2 L' U L' R' (7/15)

Results week 40

Now I am closing this contest. (even if it is possibly some hours early).
If you edit posts from now on it will not make it into the results.

2x2x2(32)

1. 2.67 onionhoney
2. 3.00 Yalow
3. 3.10 Edmund
4. 3.77 SimonWestlund
5. 3.79 oskarasbrink
6. 3.82 Jai
7. 3.94 trying-to-speedcube...
8. 3.99 ConnorCuber
9. 4.92 MTGjumper
10. 5.04 Kian
11. 5.38 Yes, We Can!
12. 5.44 Odder
13. 5.73 rachmaninovian
14. 6.27 amostay2004
15. 6.31 cookingfat
16. 6.69 Henrik Bui
17. 7.23 AvGalen
18. 7.41 wrbcube4
19. 7.49 richardzhang
20. 8.04 fazrulz
21. 8.32 PeterV
22. 8.98 jamesdeanludlow
23. 9.54 ender9994
24. 9.74 Cride5
25. 9.79 ZB_FTW!!!
26. 9.93 Mike Hughey
27. 11.48 digaoy
28. 12.24 Cyrok215
29. 14.52 Inf3rn0
30. 15.50 salshort
31. 16.09 msemtd
32. 17.22 MatsBergsten

3x3x3 (34)

1. 11.24 Jai
2. 12.65 MTGjumper
3. 12.76 SimonWestlund
4. 13.52 amostay2004
5. 14.13 ManasijV
6. 14.34 trying-to-speedcube...
7. 14.63 oskarasbrink
8. 15.20 ConnorCuber
9. 15.71 Yalow
10. 15.80 onionhoney
11. 15.85 Yes, We Can!
12. 17.15 Edmund
13. 17.73 Kian
14. 17.83 Odder
15. 19.65 Edam
16. 20.24 rachmaninovian
17. 21.03 thinkdifferent
18. 21.47 fazrulz
19. 23.01 AvGalen
20. 23.72 Cride5
21. 23.83 mande
22. 24.70 Mike Hughey
23. 25.30 cookingfat
24. 27.19 Cyrok215
25. 27.40 Henrik Bui
26. 28.20 PeterV
27. 28.86 salshort
28. 28.90 jamesdeanludlow
29. 29.65 wrbcube4
30. 34.17 ZB_FTW!!!
31. 34.56 Inf3rn0
32. 44.55 msemtd
33. 45.20 iSpinz
34. 49.11 MatsBergsten

4x4x4(17)

1. 55.29 rachmaninovian
2. 57.62 Jai
3. 58.23 MTGjumper
4. 59.10 SimonWestlund
5. 1:06.62 trying-to-speedcube...
6. 1:07.74 amostay2004
7. 1:14.54 Kian
8. 1:19.09 AvGalen
9. 1:23.93 Yes, We Can!
10. 1:42.40 Mike Hughey
11. 1:50.41 jamesdeanludlow
12. 1:53.31 Cyrok215
13. 1:54.69 cookingfat
14. 2:06.42 wrbcube4
15. 2:40.69 PeterV
16. 2:49.49 msemtd
17. 3:24.81 MatsBergsten

5x5x5(15)

1. 1:52.16 Jai
2. 1:56.11 SimonWestlund
3. 1:57.94 rachmaninovian
4. 2:13.26 AvGalen
5. 2:14.05 Kian
6. 2:14.42 amostay2004
7. 2:41.13 Yes, We Can!
8. 2:43.19 Mike Hughey
9. 2:53.98 Edam
10. 3:05.19 jamesdeanludlow
11. 3:40.48 cookingfat
12. 4:19.55 salshort
13. 5:19.73 msemtd
14. 8:57.81 MatsBergsten
15. DNF wrbcube4

6x6x6(5)

1. 4:40.92 SimonWestlund
2. 5:20.56 AvGalen
3. 5:42.38 Mike Hughey
4. 8:26.13 msemtd
5. DNF MatsBergsten

7x7x7(5)

1. 6:52.24 AvGalen
2. 7:51.74 Mike Hughey
3. 9:42.78 jamesdeanludlow
4. 12:05.51 cookingfat
5. 13:30.15 msemtd

3x3 one handed(21)

1. 19.20 Jai
2. 27.55 SimonWestlund
3. 27.63 trying-to-speedcube...
4. 30.02 ManasijV
5. 31.74 amostay2004
6. 31.83 MTGjumper
7. 32.95 Edmund
8. 36.34 Odder
9. 37.51 AvGalen
10. 39.42 Kian
11. 41.85 Mike Hughey
12. 42.79 mande
13. 48.49 Yes, We Can!
14. 57.49 richardzhang
15. 1:06.92 cookingfat
16. 1:06.95 salshort
17. 1:12.93 Inf3rn0
18. 1:21.24 Cyrok215
19. 1:35.20 ZB_FTW!!!
20. 1:40.24 msemtd
21. 1:59.89 jamesdeanludlow

3x3 with feet(4)

1. 1:50.04 Mike Hughey
2. 3:38.24 Kian
3. 4:29.22 fazrulz
4. 6:17.77 jamesdeanludlow

2x2x2 Blindfolded(8)

1. 27.50 ManasijV
2. 42.38 Kian
3. 43.16 AvGalen
4. 44.00 Mike Hughey
5. 44.17 MatsBergsten
6. 1:22.77 jamesdeanludlow
7. 1:38.56 cookingfat
8. DNF Yes, We Can!

3x3x3 Blindfolded(9)

1. 1:44.81 Mike Hughey
2. 2:11.29 ManasijV
3. 2:12.58 amostay2004
4. 2:32.27 SimonWestlund
5. 2:55.56 MatsBergsten
6. 3:27.77 AvGalen
7. 4:34.17 Kian
8. DNF cookingfat
9. DNF msemtd

4x4x4 Blindfolded(2)

1. 7:35.33 Mike Hughey
2. 12:49.00 MatsBergsten

5x5x5 Blindfolded(2)

1. 14:55.60 Mike Hughey
2. 29:07.00 MatsBergsten

3x3 Multi blind(6)

1. 4/4 Mike Hughey
2. 5/7 MatsBergsten
3. 2/2 ManasijV
4. 3/5 Henrik
5. 0/4 Kian
6. 0/2 cookingfat

3x3 Match the scramble(5)

1. 59.08 AvGalen
2. 1:32.97 Mike Hughey
3. 1:50.44 cookingfat
4. 4:26.76 ZB_FTW!!!
5. 4:39.43 msemtd

2-3-4 Relay(13)

1. 1:11.75 Jai
2. 1:12.11 MTGjumper
3. 1:33.90 Kian
4. 1:48.22 AvGalen
5. 2:24.86 Edam
6. 2:32.65 jamesdeanludlow
7. 2:35.05 Cyrok215
8. 2:38.17 cookingfat
9. 2:53.40 Mike Hughey
10. 2:55.49 richardzhang
11. 3:48.52 PeterV
12. 4:23.93 msemtd
13. 6:03.19 MatsBergsten

2-3-4-5 Relay(9)

1. 3:22.91 MTGjumper
2. 3:41.26 Kian
3. 4:23.58 AvGalen
4. 5:23.61 Mike Hughey
5. 6:28.33 cookingfat
6. 8:52.12 Cyrok215
7. 8:58.41 PeterV
8. 10:35.40 msemtd
9. 13:03.65 MatsBergsten

Magic(12)

1. 0.96 Henrik Bui
2. 1.20 Edam
3. 1.54 oskarasbrink
4. 1.64 AvGalen
5. 1.77 PeterV
6. 1.90 cookingfat
7. 1.91 salshort
8. 1.94 jamesdeanludlow
9. 1.96 Mike Hughey
10. 2.46 Kian
11. 2.76 Yes, We Can!
12. 3.07 msemtd

Master Magic(3)

1. 4.77 jamesdeanludlow
2. 4.92 Mike Hughey
3. 5.37 AvGalen

Clock(4)

1. 15.25 AvGalen
2. 17.01 jamesdeanludlow
3. 20.04 Mike Hughey
4. 36.12 msemtd

Pyraminx(13)

1. 4.41 Odder
2. 5.52 SimonWestlund
3. 5.97 Jai
4. 10.47 Yes, We Can!
5. 10.54 ZB_FTW!!!
6. 11.66 salshort
7. 11.81 AvGalen
8. 12.86 Henrik Bui
9. 13.22 Kian
10. 13.47 fazrulz
11. 19.25 Mike Hughey
12. 21.85 msemtd
13. 25.70 cookingfat

Megaminx(7)

1. 2:17.62 Yes, We Can!
2. 2:50.50 Mike Hughey
3. 2:54.72 AvGalen
4. 3:42.03 salshort
5. 4:40.34 cookingfat
6. 5:14.34 msemtd
7. 5:51.92 jamesdeanludlow

Square-1(10)

1. 13.09 MTGjumper
2. 17.18 janilo_139
3. 18.95 SimonWestlund
4. 19.87 trying-to-speedcube...
5. 40.88 Mike Hughey
6. 44.77 fazrulz
7. 50.31 AvGalen
8. 1:02.81 oskarasbrink
9. 1:13.05 jamesdeanludlow
10. 1:29.15 cookingfat

3x3x3 fewest moves(10)

1. 27 guusrs
2. 32 TMOY
3. 33 Mike Hughey
4. 35 blah
5. 37 Cride5
6. 38 MTGjumper
7. 39 fanwuq
8. 50 Cyrok215
9. 59 ZB_FTW!!!
10. 77 richardzhang

Contest results

1. 231 Mike Hughey
2. 200 AvGalen
3. 175 SimonWestlund
4. 162 Kian
5. 159 Jai
6. 156 MTGjumper
7. 135 cookingfat
8. 121 Yes, We Can!
9. 119 amostay2004
10. 111 trying-to-speedcube...
11. 107 jamesdeanludlow
12. 90 ManasijV
13. 83 rachmaninovian
14. 82 MatsBergsten
15. 81 msemtd
16. 80 Odder
17. 79 oskarasbrink
18. 77 Edmund
19. 68 Cyrok215
20. 62 onionhoney
21. 62 Yalow
22. 60 salshort
23. 58 Edam
24. 57 ConnorCuber
25. 56 fazrulz
26. 54 ZB_FTW!!!
27. 53 Henrik Bui
28. 53 PeterV
29. 45 richardzhang
30. 45 Cride5
31. 40 wrbcube4
32. 31 mande
33. 22 Inf3rn0
34. 21 thinkdifferent
35. 20 guusrs
36. 19 TMOY
37. 17 blah
38. 14 fanwuq
39. 13 janilo_139
40. 12 ender9994
41. 8 digaoy
42. 8 Henrik
43. 5 iSpinz

10.47 Yes, We Can!
10.54 ZB_FTW!!!

Damn!

Edit: btw, this was pyra.

uh whoops

First in 2x2 BLD First time i won something. I did the corners of a 3x3. Its fine right?

ManasijV said:

First in 2x2 BLD First time i won something. I did the corners of a 3x3. Its fine right?

Click to expand...

No, actually it is not. You have to get a real 2x2.

This discussion has been up before. I ought to have removed your post if I had seen it. As we follow the WCA rules it is not allowed. A lot of people people (amongst them definitely I) find it easier to turn a 3x3. But I will not alter the list this time, you may not do it in the future.

Oh ok thanks.