Weekly competition 2007-21 (2,3,3OH,4,5,BF,SQ1,MG)

[joey]

Originally posted by AvGalen@Jul 2 2007, 06:35 PM
Square1: Thanks everyone for all the info. I think that the next person that has anything to say about Square-1 should open a Square-1 topic.

Jack: r on bigcubes means double layer turns

Hmm, whenever I've seen/used that notation, r means a single slice. Rr is double layer.

 

[Erik]

On official scrambles r = 2 layers (this is done to make scrambling faster). On algorithms stated on forums r mostly means just the inner layer.

 

[Jack]

Oops, that means I've been scrambling wrong for the whole competition, I was using single layer turns :unsure: Well, I'll start using the double layer turns now.

 

[Rama]

Originally posted by Jack@Jul 2 2007, 10:20 PM
Oops, that means I've been scrambling wrong for the whole competition, I was using single layer turns :unsure: Well, I'll start using the double layer turns now.

Haha same here

 

[pjk]

3x3 Speedsolve:
16.73 (18.13) (14.24) 14.92 16.65
Average: 16.10 Seconds
That average of 100 really helped. I am feeling good with the cube, I am flowing very nice. I seemed to have improved my F2L by 1-2 seconds and my LL recognition

3x3 OH:
46.41 (46.03) 51.45 (57.16) 46.29
Average: 48.05
Good enough.

Magic:
2.24 (3.33) 2.65 2.11 (2.03)
Avg: 2.33
Pretty happy with it. Although I have a lot of room for improvement.

 

[AvGalen]

Jack and Rama, you are both disqualified

Erik explained it perfectly:
Websites: r=slice, Rr=double layer
Competitions: r=double layer, (r R' would be slice)

This confuses a lot of people.

 

[joey]

3x3 BLD: DNF DNF
The first DNF was a 3:31.11 I forgot to count edges, so I couldn't remeber if I had parity or not. So I had to count while solving, which was a little distracting. I think I did a d/d' instead of a d2 at one point, because some of my E edges are wrong.
The second was a 2:3x.xx, but I completly messed up corners, so I stopped early.

3x3: (27.56) (19.02) 20.69 22.75 25.34 Average: 22.92
I thought the first was quite fast, yet it was a 27.56, I don't know why!
My first sub20 in competiton, even if it is unofficial!
My best average here so far!

2x2: (5.13) 11.71 9.11 (15.72) 12.83 Average: 11.21
PLL skip, but stil fast! Pretty ok average!

2x2 BLD: 59.16 DNF
Yay sub1, it doesn't happen often! I tried to do a speed BLD on the DNF!

3x3 OH: 1:49.72 1:18.33 1:9.96 1:16.75 1:19.08 Average: 1:18.05
The first was a nasty messed up cross. Probably my best OH average!

EDIT:

5x5: 6:14.36 5:47.88 (5:24.25) 5:46.97 (6:47.25) Avegrage: 5:56.30
These are my 3rd-7th ever timed 5x5 solves! My first timed solve was 16 mins! Then I just lubed my cube today, and cut 10 mins from my time!

 

[Toojdwin]

Trevor Davila
5x5x5 BLD
1: 33:32.52
2: DNF (31:26.84)

Arg, on the 2nd one i just messed up when I was undoing the setup moves at the end while I was undoing the corner parity.

 

[Hubdra]

5x5

Avg: 4:22.50

Times: (5:00.84), 3:55.72, (3:49.97), 4:24.74, 4:47.03

3:49.97 is my PB! These are the first two sub-4s I've gotten. I've always been hovering around the 4 minute range. The 5 would have been really fast too, but I had a MASSIVE lock-up, that required some figuring out as to how to get it back together. Oh well.


3x3

Avg: 29.77

Times: 28.78, 30.44, (37.05), 30.08, (27.75)


lol. I haven't been able to practice much while I was away for 3 weeks. Pretty damaging to my times. Oh well.

 

[AlexandertheGreat]

Not that great in any category...oh well I'll get better

-3x3x3-
(20.24), 24.96, 23.30, 21.78, (27.74)
Average: 23.35
Not very good at all?should have warmed up first

-3x3x3 OH-
(60.73), (34.87), 53.44, 36.71, 50.88
Average: 47.01
Pretty bad I never get in the 60s?

-3x3x3 BLD-
first attempt competing blindfolded

DNF (would have been 7:25.73 but messed up one edge cycle)

DNF (would have been 7:11.04, I accidentally skipped CP and then went back to it and messed it up )
:unsure:

 

[masterofthebass]

Dan Cohen

2x2x2
Average: 7.83
(5.11), 8.78, 7.70, 7.00, (9.86)

First one was a LL skip. New PB for the avg and w/ no warm-up!

3x3x3
Average: 22.04
(DNF), (19.80), 20.91, 24.53, 20.60

messed up an A on the first one. Apparently some warm-up would help.


3x3x3 OH
Average: 1:02.50 / 62.5
59.47, (50.33), 1:06.03, (1:10.89), 1:02.00

I don't like this very much...

4x4x4
Average: 1:38.05 / 98.05
(1:41.23), 1:39.03 P, (1:27.22 OP), 1:39.19 OP, 1:35.92 O

On the 1:27, I got to the O parity at 1:05... but the rest were just bad.

5x5x5
Average: 2:45.54 / 165.54
(POP), (2:32.76), 2:40.03, 2:40.41, 2:56.19

...

Square-1
Average: 1:28.40 / 88.40
(1:45.64), 1:30.84, (1:06.08), 1:35.17. 1:19.20

not too bad for me... I should be better
My two cents on the parity issue:
I only know enough algorithms to solve 1 edge at a time, therefore I don't have parity. I just learned an algorithm that swaps adjacent edges in both layers, so I use that until I have only one adjacent pair left. If I have a middle parity, I just flip the cube so that my white side (correct top) is on top and fix it. Really bad method of doing it, but I can avg sub 1:20.

Magic
Average:1.88
01.90, (02.15), 01.61, (01.59), 02.13

---BLD---

2x2x2
1:12.84 Hit the ALT-key instead of space bar, so it was like really a 1:09
1:05.05

Yeah! 2 successful BLDs in comp.

3x3x3
DNF (4:12.02) somehow messed up my sequence of corners. I use Pochmann's method
DNF (4:26:91) bunch of edges flipped...

I only did my first successful BLD this morning, so I thought I would give it a try.

 

[sgowal]

Square-1
Avg: 1:34.99 minutes
Times: 1:41.78 1:28.90 (1:22.74) (2:00.46) 1:34.28

Magic
Avg: 1.52 seconds
Times: 1.51 1.50 (1.39) (2.84) 1.54

2x2
Avg: 9.67 seconds
Times: 9.31 8.45 (4.86) 11.26 (DNF)

3x3
Avg: 23.04 seconds
Times: 23.23 21.34 (21.18) 24.55 (25.71)

3x3 OH
Avg: 1:09.21 minutes
Times: (1:11.56) (54.74) 1:10.38 1:07.15 1:10.11 (Weird my F2L is always sub-40, I should practice my LL a little)

4x4
Avg: 2:42.79 minutes
Times: 1:57.34 (1:49.31) 2:24.05 (DNF) 3:46.97 (3rd was edge mess up, 4th and 5th were OLL parity mess-ups)

Applying the new strategy of no warm-ups

 

[dbeyer]

3x3 average of 5: 21.58
21.79, 21.18, (25.20), 21.77, |19.71|
5x5 average of 5: 3:13.65
3:04, 3:09.96, |2:39.22|, (4:16.77) (haha), 3:27

3x3 BLD:
S1. DNF (Pop)
S2. 2:17.83

4x4 BLD:
S1. DNF (X-center broke)
S2. DNF

5x5 BLD:
S1. DNF (Trivial Error)

 

[Karthik]

3x3:
(34.45)
(45.89)
38.11
38.31
43.64
Average: 40.02

 

[AvGalen]

Hi Daniel, great to see you do regular solves. I can see you don't do that as often as most people, because you seem to have made no progress in the last couple of months. You should really try my method for the 5x5x5 edge-pairing to shave about 30 seconds of your times.

 

[KJiptner]

4x4x4
Avg: 1:38.15
Times: 1:38.16 (1:41.30) (1:34.44) 1:36.64 1:39.86

Wheeeeeeee. Those are nice times for me. Espeacially those last 2 with both parities.

 

[dbeyer]

The 3rd Was awsome look ahead (new stickers?) 4th I popped and locked up so much! 5th should have been my solve that was thrown out

Yea ... First average of 5 for either cube in a long time
So, I can't complain ...

BLD coming today, I hope. Haven't had much time for that either ... grr

 

[Mike Hughey]

Mike Hughey
2x2 Average: 14.32
Times: (9.46), 12.59, 14.01, 16.30, (16.37)
Very lucky average for me. This was right before I learned Ortega; I had done an average of 10 right before it, and it was over 19 seconds. I just got lucky. Since then, I've learned Ortega, and now I can really get times like these. (I'm still pretty slow for Ortega, though.)

3x3 Average: 38.82
Times: 37.54, 39.85, (32.64), 39.09, (45.74)

3x3 OH Average: 1:31.50
Times: 1:38.19, (1:11.81), 1:22.39, (1:40.67), 1:33.92

4x4 Average: 2:37.72
Times: 2:37.03 OP, 2:44.11 O, (2:31.77) OP, (2:54.63) OP, 2:32.03 P

5x5 Average: 4:21.07
Times: 4:24.75, (4:09.23), 4:18.55, (4:35.38), 4:19.91
This is slowly getting better. Actually, the 4:35.38 looked like it was going to be sub-4 minutes, but then it popped. I'm pretty happy with getting 4:35 with a pop.

2x2 BLD Best: 1:14.57
2x2 BLD a: DNF (1:33.93)
2x2 BLD b: 1:14.57
The first one was all messed up; the second one seemed really easy.

3x3 BLD Best: 4:16.83
3x3 BLD a: 4:16.83
3x3 BLD b: DNF (4:38.17)
At last, a decent time in competition. The second one was all messed up - I'm not sure what I did wrong.

4x4 BLD: 63:42.73
4x4 BLD a: DNF (59:25.70)
4x4 BLD b: 63:42.73
YEAH!!!!! I GOT IT!!! Okay, so I'm twice as slow with 4x4 as Trevor is with 5x5, but at least I got it! It was my third try ever at this. (My only tries have been in these competitions.) The funny part is that I actually mismemorized the centers - I mixed up my C and D positions. But when I got to it, I thought I remembered the right color being in the C position, which I was supposed to swap. I decided to trust my visual memory instead of my mnemonic, since on the previous attempt, I had the same thing happen and trusted my mnemonic and got it wrong. And my visual memory was correct!!!

It looks like these competitions might finally turn big cube blindsolving into a mainstream event!

 

[AvGalen]

Kai: Wow, you have both improved speedwise and consistency wise!

Mike: Seems like this was your week! Congratulations on all your blindfolded solves, but on that 4x4x4 especially! It took me way more than 3 tries to get a 3x3x3 done.

 

[ExoCorsair]

Mike: Congrats on the 4x4 BLD!!

dbeyer: New stickers = better lookahead? What'd you change to/from? When I changed my green to florescent green and my times went up... :lol: