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MarcelP said:
Awesome! My comp is a one day competition.. tomorrow ;)
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Yeah I checked cubecomps looking for you and saw that! Lots of events missing for a Nationals, why is it only one day?

Good luck tomorrow!

mafergut said:
Sorry to hear that but those 4x4 times are great......By the way, which 2x2 do you use? Not normal that a 2x2 disintegrates unless it's a Dayan Zanchi.
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Thanks... And good guess :D

Logiqx said:
Congrats on the 4x4 times Mark.
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Cheers, now you have a target for UKC ;)

Good luck Raul in blind tomorrow!
 
mafergut said:
Sorry to hear that but those 4x4 times are great. I wish I was near those. I think that it was the thrill of getting to 2nd round that got you nervous or else you could have done much better. By the way, which 2x2 do you use? Not normal that a 2x2 disintegrates unless it's a Dayan Zanchi. I have one and I'm trying to break it in but it keeps popping all the time. At the same time I got a Cyclone Boys (stickerless) and it was great out of the box, so the CB is my main.

Talking about getting nervous, I can't go to a comp, I'm sure I'd DNF every time. I was trying to record my Ao12 video today 1 o 2 weeks late for Marcel's challenge and I have been completely unable to finish an Ao12 without messing up badly, forgetting to start the clock, dropping the cube, forgetting to start the camera (just when I had done a 15.xx), ... I will try again tomorrow.
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Mafergut,
I have the same problem with cam and public solve !!
Today I tested my cam (it is just a 30fps cam and I turn sooo fast ... :-) ) because I'd like to post my avg12 for MarcelP's avg12 virtual event 2015 (MAVE15)

From one or two months I can say to be sub40; my avg5/12 are usually sub40 and PB single is 26.2... In these tests I had times between 42 and 1:10 !!! :mad:

I don't know if I'll DNF all rounds, but I'll go in October to my first comp !!
And I'll do the video avg12. Maybe it will be about 37 minutes ...
 
Day 1 report. DNFed all 3 blind solves. First couple were ~2:30 so I was rushing. Second solve was almost there and spoiled by an annoying Y-perm fumble right at the end. Last solve I took my time but DNFed too at about 4:30. Bit disappointing as my comp PB remains at 4:21 and I know I can do much better.

Made up for it with 4x4 PBs - 1:17 average, 1:10 single - and also 2x2 average PB 7.86.

Edit: and made it to 2nd round 2x2. My first time in 2nd round of anything!
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Congratulations of your times in 4x4 - I wish I could do avg. You will be better in 3bld on next comp. Blind events are the hardest in competiotion.

Day 1 & 2 Report

Skewb: 16.21 Average 12.40 single Not enough to make it to the final but at least puts to rest my 40something average and 20something single

OH:Nervous, starting with a bad solve (53) then a good one (39) then a missed oportunity of an xcross because I messed up OLL, then PB and lastly average. Both PBs
2x2: didn't practice but almost got PB (missed it because I somehow forgot 1 PBL in the middle of a solve) 7.84 & 6.50 single
5x5: didn't make cutoff (3:00) 3:10 single at least
4x4: popped while OLL parity and had to start all over again, then 1:41 and 1:27 single, PB but not very happy with the solves
Pyra: move along, move along
3x3: More work for Marcel, I just bested your single by 0.01 and improved my average to 20.16. Too bad I had a counting 23, but very happy with low 19, 18 and 17, all of them full step.

Tomorrow Blind and some second rounds, Multi and bigBLD will have to wait for another comp, because Organizing gets me really tired.
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Nice avgs. Congrats and good luck today.
 
MarcelP said:
Jay! I did well in second round with only one 2+
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Some nice PBs there Marcel!

My day #2 report: First round 3x3 was a bit of a mess, with a +2 and a DNF (corner twist in PLL) but 21.98 was enough to get to second round.

Then 5x5 was not good. Second solve was my worst yet, as I didn't notice some unsolved edges and had to go back and fix them later.

Failed 4BLD in 29 mins after missing one piece in memo! Gutted! I thought I had hit my buffer but it was actually K (Speffz). And my buffer was in K. School boy error.

3x3 second round offered nice consolation with a sub-20 average, 19.89, despite a sup-30 solve due to corner twist during F2L.

Really enjoyed this comp!
 
Schmidt said:
and good luck Marcel. Please beat my avg. It is almost embarrassing to be officially faster than you :D
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The balance in the Universe is restored.. :)

mark49152 said:
Some nice PBs there Marcel!
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Yes, I did great. Well, not so bad as I usually do. First solve 4X4 I was starting OLL at 1:20. That freaked me out, becasue I had never been that fast and cut off was 1:30. It was the OLL 55. I usually do it on 4x4 in two steps. Now I wanted to do it in one step and messed up badly so that I even had redo some F2L's... Oh man.. resulting in a 2.03. Second solve had double parity and was 1.48. Not bad..

2X2 I did good. PB single and PB average. Doesn't get any better than that. Pyraminx I did keyhole. Unfortunatly out of 5 scrambles I had only 2 a connected edge (so that you only had to find one extra edge). When I have no edge connected I am very slow. Still my average was 0.06 away from my PB.

With Rubiks cube in first round I had my nerves not under controle. Starting off with a 26.. Then I had two 21's that became 23's due to misalignement of U face. So you would think I would watch out in next round for that... LOL in second round I had another 2+. I rushed LL and dropped the cube with a full U misaligment. The times where pretty good because I was less nervous. So I am very pleased with 20.54 average. Oh.. yeah OH 1.03 PB was pretty sweet :) I learned the LL algs half an hour before the event..


And just when I thought I beaten our Spannish amigo Raoul. His 22,01 average, he beat my AVG PB by 0.3x and single PB by 0.01.. :)


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moralsh said:
3x3: More work for Marcel, I just bested your single by 0.01 and improved my average to 20.16.
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LOL, I did not read your report untill now.. :)
 
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Congratulations all of you for your PBs!

So first Marcel broke this thread 3x3 average record with 20.54 and now the fastest official times in 3x3 are Raúl's 20.16 average and 17.24 single?
 
Congrats Marcel :tu ​but all my numbers are orange

EDIT: And congrats to all the other oldies. Go show dem kiddies how it's done :rolleyes:

 
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