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Congrats Mark and Andy on the 3BLD and other PBs today! And congrats Grzegorz too!

I had a mixed day - missed soft cut on 5x5 which was disappointing because I've made it the last three comps. Messed up 2x2 as usual, despite doing 200 solves to warm up, but got a silly PB single. PB 4x4 average by half a second, but should have been better. Then finally, a 1:27.65 3BLD which I was really pleased with - that's 20 seconds knocked off my comp PB! Unfortunately my camera battery died just as I was about to take off the cover, so no video :(.

Nice comp, nice venue, nice company - looking forward to tomorrow.

Now to prepare my MBLD cubes. I decided to make them a little tighter, but it takes a surprisingly long time to tension 19 cubes!
 
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mark49152 said:
Congrats Mark and Andy on the 3BLD and other PBs today! And congrats Grzegorz too!

I had a mixed day - missed soft cut on 5x5 which was disappointing because I've made it the last three comps. Messed up 2x2 as usual, despite doing 200 solves to warm up, but got a silly PB single. PB 4x4 average by half a second, but should have been better. Then finally, a 1:27.65 3BLD which I was really pleased with - that's 20 seconds knocked off my comp PB! Unfortunately my camera battery died just as I was about to take off the cover, so no video :(.

Nice comp, nice venue, nice company - looking forward to tomorrow.

Now to prepare my MBLD cubes. I decided to make them a little tighter, but it takes a surprisingly long time to tension 19 cubes!
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Well, if we are doing full run throughs...
I beat my 5x5 single twice in 2 solves but that was it as I'm nowhere near the cut. Scraped my sub 20s average target for pyraminx with a 17s single which were both PBs. I don't plan on doing pyraminx again. Got a 2x2 average of 13s which was another PB but still not what I'd hoped as I make too many mistakes. Speaking of mistakes, I thought I had a PB in 4x4 but had missed the edge swap parity so DNF and then missed my PB by 1s in the 2nd solve. I'll get the cut one day. Then came 3BLD. I was pretty nervous going in. The first scramble was a dream but I think I completely missed an edge cycle during memo so got a sub 3 DNF. Solve 2 was harder and I wasn't at all confident but there it was, solved. 3 felt good too but I think I recalled the wrong filthy word so corners were a mess but who cares. I've finally joined the blind club.
Looking forward to tomorrow,especially my first multi attempt.
 
newtonbase said:
Got a sub 30s average out of the blue! My AO12 in warm up was nearly 34s. My target was sub 35s average and sub 30s single. Also 1/3 in multi which I'm happy with. The other 2 cubes weren't disasters. This has been an excellent competition.
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Congrats. I just checked CubeComps and saw your results. Sub-30 average... very nice!

I also saw that Mark had two sub-20 averages with really consistent times, apart from the last solves of each round. GJ!
 
Logiqx said:
I also saw that Mark had two sub-20 averages with really consistent times, apart from the last solves of each round. GJ!
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Yeah that's my tactic. Go in fairly relaxed and when I see I'm on for a good average, get nervous and ruin it. Did the same in 4x4. But at least they are PBs.

MBLD was of course my main event and that wasn't too good. On the 6th or 7th cube I realized that I had not fixed parity on any of the previous solves that had it. And, I had cast aside the cubes without keeping them in formation so couldnt fix it. What a stupid, basic error. Otherwise, my result would have been 6/8. I think the reason was that I use visual rather than audio for edges in MBLD and am just not used to it. It's a good argument for doing at least a little MBLD practice, enough to get used to whatever system is being used.
 
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