Weekly competition 2009-13

[Novriil]

Cause I made a huge PB yesterday I decided to take part of this competition.
3x3x3
(45.80), 47.58, 50.38, 48.38, (50.48) - 48.52
Very good times and average today. Happy

 

[MistArts]

Damn, Baian, How did you find an insertion that flips 2 edges and 3 corners? :O

And I'm happy with 126 moves...

Do this on your cube: R U R2 F R F2 U F U2

I found this a while ago when experimenting with the Heise method.

 

[JustinJ]

2x2: 7.27, (7.44), 6.50, (4.56), 5.84 = 6.53

Terrible I knew I wouldn’t get as good as last week… The fourth one was nice, though, I could see the whole solve in inspection .

3x3 OH: 52.77, 52.22, (1:00.31), (40.27), 40.40 = 48.46

OMG. Almost TWO sub 40’s locked up on PLL… Crazyamazing average for me. First sub 50, and second sub 60, first sub 60 was 59 XD.

I don’t really practice OH.

3x3: 25.90, 23.90, (23.52), 26.65, (28.31) = 25.48


Magic: 1.80, (1.44), (DNF), 1.97, 1.56 = 1.78

Kinda bad.

Pyraminx: 12.08, 12.18, (8.86), 9.36, (DNF) = 11.21

Something weird happened on the last one.

I haven’t practiced this in so long… Bad average.


AWFUL week for me, except for OH.
I don't feel like doing any more right now.

 

[hippofluff]

2x2: 9.20 7.84 7.00 4.41(non lucky!!!) 7.53 = 7.43 (great)
3x3: 19.41 24.78 25.28 22.89 22.11 = 23.26 (average)
4x4: 1:35.36 1:26.83 1:42.30 1:23.45 1:26.47 = 1:31.55 (great)
5x5: 3:08.91 3:07.91 3:06.17 3:19.41 3:43.00 = 3:12.07 (pretty good)
3x3OH: 56.63 45.80 46.92 57.13 56.59 = 53.39 (good)
pyraminx: 16.81 11.23 12.02 15.38 11.78 = 13.06 (good)

more to come ... eventually

 

[fanwuq]

Damn, Baian, How did you find an insertion that flips 2 edges and 3 corners? :O

And I'm happy with 126 moves...

Do this on your cube: R U R2 F R F2 U F U2

I found this a while ago when experimenting with the Heise method.

Nice alg! Got anything pure orientation algs?
I had a better reduction by 1 move: 20 moves centers, 27 moves edges, but a horrible 39 moves 3x3 stage. I managed to get a decent 21 move regular Petrus F2L, but the LL was very bad. I ended up doing Antisune+V perm. Niklas+ double sune yielded the same move count. Congrats on your 27 move 3x3 stage.

 

[MistArts]

Damn, Baian, How did you find an insertion that flips 2 edges and 3 corners? :O

And I'm happy with 126 moves...

Do this on your cube: R U R2 F R F2 U F U2

I found this a while ago when experimenting with the Heise method.

Nice alg! Got anything pure orientation algs?
I had a better reduction by 1 move: 20 moves centers, 27 moves edges, but a horrible 39 moves 3x3 stage. I managed to get a decent 21 move regular Petrus F2L, but the LL was very bad. I ended up doing Antisune+V perm. Niklas+ double sune yielded the same move count. Congrats on your 27 move 3x3 stage.

That is the only algorithm I use to orient (and it's reverse and mirror and different angles.) I usually just leave 3, 4, or 5 corners to insert. I just happened to hit this case while doing a sledghammer and forming a 1x2x2 (or 1x3x3 on a 4x4) block.

 

[DavidWoner]

3FMC: 31 moves F2 U F2 U2 F' D2 F U' F' D2 L U' L' U R' B' R B D' B' D B' D B2 D' B' D' B' D B D

scramble: D R2 D2 B2 U B2 L2 U' F2 U2 L2 R' B2 F2 U' F' L B' L2 U2 R'

explanation:

2x2x2: F2 U F2 U, F'

2x2x3: L U' L' U

EO: R' B' R

leave 3 corners: B D' B' D B' D B2 D' B' D' B' D B D

insert U F' D2 F U' F' D2 F at the , to cancel 3 moves.

Kind of disappointing given the start, but it'll have to do. Also, check out this cool forced LL skip I found:

F2 U F2 U F'

L U' L' U

B' D B D' B2 D B2 D2 B' D2

B D' B' L' D L D2 B D B' D L' D' L D (34)

 

[Kian]

Kian Barry

2x2x2- (8.69), 6.69, 8.28, (5.35), 7.14 Average- 7.37
3x3x3- (20.77), (17.23), 20.70, 20.13, 17.96 Average- 19.60
4x4x4- (1:33.65), 1:22.22, 1:29.07, (1:15.15), 1:19.03 Average- 1:23.44
5x5x5- 2:26.84, (2:14.55), (2:27.50), 2:17.45, 2:25.26 Average- 2:23.18
2-4 Relay- 1:43.78
2-5 Relay- 4:04.61
3x3x3 OH- 50.91, 44.16, (51.90), (40.10), 45.68 Average- 46.92
3x3x3 BLD- 4:57.00, DNF, DNF
MultiBLD- 2/2 18:03.79 Comment: First success ever!
3x3x3 FMC- 48 Moves x2 L B’ u U F R’ u' F’ U’ F2 U’ F’ U’ L’ U L y2 U2 R U R’ U2 R U’ R’ y2 U R2 U2 R U R' U R2 y F U R U’ R’ F’ U B2 U L' R B2 L R' U B2

 

[cuBerBruce]

Name: Bruce Norskog

4x4x4 Fewest Moves: 96 moves
Solution:
U' Bw Lw' U2 Lw L Fw2 L' Fw' L2 Fw' R' B Dw2 B' Dw' B2 Dw' F' Uw2 B2 Uw F Uw2 L2 Uw'
B' L' U2 L' Dw U' L U L' B U' B' F D F' Dw' L' F' Rw D' L D Rw' D B' L Fw' L' U B' L U' Fw
F L' B2 L F' L' B' R B U2 L R' F2 L' R B' R' D' B U' B2 D' R2 D2 U2 B U B' U B R' B' R2 B' D B R'

Explanation:
Centers (26):
1st face: U' Bw Lw' U2 Lw
2nd face: L Fw2 L' Fw' L2 Fw'
3rd face: R' B Dw2 B' Dw' B2 Dw'
Remaining faces: F' Uw2 B2 Uw F Uw2 L2 Uw'

Edge Pairing (33):
1st 7 pairs: B' L' U2 L' Dw U' L U L' B U' B' F D F' Dw'
3 more pairs: L' F' Rw D' L D Rw'
2 remaining pairs: D B' L Fw' L' U B' L U' Fw

3x3x3 phase - described as a 3x3x3 solve (37):
2x2x2: . L' B .. D' B U' B2
2x2x3 (and more): D' R2 D2 U2 B U B' U
9-edge, 5-corner skeleton: B R' B' R2 B' D B R'
Insert corner 3-cycle at ".": F L' B2 L F' L' B2 L
Insert edge 3-cycle at "..": R B (U2 L R' F2 L' R) B' R'

3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 36 moves
Comment: 36 is also the order of the scramble.
Solution: F2 U F2 U F' B' L' B L D' B2 D B2 D' B2 D2 B2 L B L' D' B' R' B R D U2 F' U B2 U' F U B2 U B2
Explanation:
2x2x2: F2 U F2 U F'
2x2x3: B' L' B L
F2L minus 1 slot: D' B2 D B2 D' B2 D2
F2L: B2 L B L'
Orient edges: D' B' R' B R D
Orient corners: U2 F' U B2 U' F U B2 U
PLL: B2

 

[Escher]

2x2
4.28, 3.86, 3.27, (1.86), (5.31) = 3.80
decent average, nasty sup 5 though.

3x3
15.48, 15.16, 15.06, (15.41), (13.54) = 15.21
Hmm... only one sub 15. SD of 0.15.

4x4
(1:25.92), 1:20.40, (1:06.17), 1:21.20, 1:21.25 = 1:20.95
Disgusting... I really have been neglecting 4x4. Reasonably good single though, and i have no idea where it came from.

2x2 BLD
17.05+, 12.43+, DNF = 12.43
the second one pleasantly surprised me

3x3 OH

28.19, (36.15), 34.35, 35.85, (26.26) = 32.80
alright for something i don't do that much, a good single.

2x2 - 4x4 Relay

1:37.86
good 4x4 part

cba with Pyra this week, its a boring puzzle that i'm rubbish at...

Overall a decent entry, shame about the 4x4 though.
EDIT - oh yeah, david, you can blame fazrulz this week

 

[hippofluff]

rest of my results...
square-1: 1:38.05 1:33.49 1:27.19 1:37.55 1:15.20 = 1:32.74 (lol)
snake: 10.64 11.32 33.73(don't ask) 11.43 10.64 = 11.13
magic: 1.64 1.80 DNF 1.48 1.90 = 1.78 (I hate magic)
megaminx: 4:17.11 3:34.11 4:05.00 3:57.86 4:45.86 = 4:10.06
2x2-4x4: 2:22.29 (ehhh)
2x2-5x5: 5:37.34 (good)

 

[Sa967St]

3x3x3: 13.95
13.90, (13.17), (16.23), 13.76, 14.19

3x3x3 OH: 32.09
(33.27), 30.31, 32.94, 33.03, (29.01)

3x3x3 BLD: DNF
DNF(1:59.19), DNF (2:49.23), DNF (2:16.28)

4x4x4: 1:16.85
(1:15.36), 1:16.72 [O], 1:16.18, (1:23.76)[OP], 1:17.65 [P]

5x5x5: 2:17.42
2:12.74, 2:18.83, (2:25.18), (2:07.05), 2:20.68,

square-1: 1:16.41
(1:24.52)[P], (1:08.54), 1:12.94, 1:15.22,1: 1:21.06 [P]

 

[cookingfat]

2x2x2 : (12.36), 9.11, 9.90, (5.47), 8.16 = 9.06
good.

3x3x3 : 27.08, 30.55, (26.02), (32.47), 27.03 = 28.22
also good

4x4x4 : 2:38.55, 2:40.71, (2:25.50), (3:54.41), 2:56.41 = 2:45.22
I gave up halfway through the fourth.

5x5x5 : 5:37.96, 5:50.97, (7:38.86), 5:50.00, (4:54.21) = 5:46.31
urgh on the third one.

2x2x2 BLD :DNF, 2:17.81, DNF = 2:17.81
poor

3x3x3 BLD :DNF, DNF, 4:37.94 = 4:37.94
too many DNFs lately, but the successes are normally good times for me.

3x3x3 Match : 2:07.58, 2:06.66, 2:02.34, (1:53.36), (3:06.41) = 2:05.53

2-3-4 relay : 3:17.44

2-3-4-5 relay : 8:35.88

Pyraminx : (27.09), 34.83 , 33.78, 31.86, (39.78) = 33.49

Snake : 4.16, 5.27, 4.53, 4.96, 5.71 = 4.92
good

 

[Mike Hughey]

No 6x6x6 BLD or 7x7x7 BLD this week; I was concentrating on practicing lots of 5x5x5 BLD for the Ohio Open. That didn't work out too well for me, I guess.

Mike Hughey:

2x2x2: 11.72, 8.96, 12.34, 7.34, 8.88 = 9.85
3x3x3: 27.59, 27.78, 28.13, 30.90, 22.25 = 27.83
4x4x4: 1:41.68, 1:59.33 (O), 1:51.83 (P), 2:00.02 (OP), 1:37.02 (O) = 1:50.95
5x5x5: 2:41.68, 2:39.47, 2:26.75, 2:15.27, 2:21.58 = 2:29.27
Comment: Wow – 2:15!
6x6x6: 5:50.55 (P), 5:07.58, 4:50.11, 5:12.93 (O), 5:33.56 (O) = 5:18.02
7x7x7: 7:25.88, 8:20.56, 8:00.91, 7:25.84, 7:52.91 = 7:46.57
2x2x2 BLD: 48.15, 57.96, 41.81 = 41.81
3x3x3 BLD: 2:13.25, 2:13.72, 2:06.09 = 2:06.09
4x4x4 BLD: 9:13.97 (4:36), DNF (8:14.31, 3:56), DNF (9:29.81, 4:13) = 9:13.97
Comment: Second one off by 3 corners mispermuted; third one off by 2 wings.
5x5x5 BLD: 16:16.93 (8:32), DNF (14:39.19, 7:33), DNF (15:55.87, 8:40) = 16:16.93
Comment: Second one off by 2 X centers; third one off by 4 + centers.
3x3x3 multiBLD: 5/5 = 5 points, 25:57.40 (16:22)
Comment: Wow, 5 is just so easy - it feels like cheating to do just 5.
3x3x3 OH: 47.16, 55.80, 49.09, 1:07.53, 55.25 = 53.38
3x3x3 WF: 2:26.66, 2:08.06, 2:08.78, 2:04.11, 2:06.34 = 2:07.73
3x3x3 Match the scramble: 2:04.79, 1:22.87, 1:55.09, 2:16.50, 1:52.83 = 1:57.57
2-4 relay: 2:33.25 (none)
2-5 relay: 5:25.78 (O)
2-6 relay: 11:26.42 (none, none)
2-7 relay: 19:20.64 (none, OP)
Magic: 3.18, 2.91, 2.50, 2.30, 2.59 = 2.67
Master Magic: 5.40, 4.88, 5.15, 4.27, 4.21 = 4.77
Clock: 18.08, 31.72, 24.41, 24.53, 30.30 = 26.41
MegaMinx: 3:35.48, 3:38.84, 2:48.97, 2:47.82, 2:42.48 = 3:04.09
Pyraminx: 22.97, 40.91, 17.03, 23.41, 21.84 = 22.74
Square-1: 2:14.47 (P), 56.21 (P), 1:12.16 (P), 1:07.09 (P), 1:14.81 (P) = 1:11.35
Comment: Awful. Forgot the E perm on the first one. I warmed up with 10 consecutive sub-minute solves, and then did this.
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 39 moves
F2 U F2 U F’ L U’ L’ U B’ L2 D R2 D’ L2 D R2 B D2 B2 D2 B D’ B D2 B2 L B L’ F L’ F’ D’ F D L D’ F’ D2
2x2x2: F2 U F2 U F’
2x2x3: L U’ L’ U
3x cross: B’ . D B D2 B2 D2 B
4th pair: D’ B D2 B2 L B L’
OLL: F L’ F’ D’ F D L D’ F’
AUF: D2
insert at .: L2 D R2 D’ L2 D R2 D’
D D’ cancel after insertion.
Comment: I found this (including the insertion) after just 18 minutes. Then I couldn’t find anything better even though I had lots of promising starts.
4x4x4 Fewest Moves: DNS

 

[MatsBergsten]

3x3x3 multiBLD: DNS

If I had known that I wouldn't have gone for five!

It was very sad to see that you didn't succeed at bigBLD. More persons than I
thought so, it was clear from the chat-room comments on both 4BLD & 5BLD.
But it was very nice to be able to follow you and your daughters live at the Ohio web site.

Forum Comp: I also did BLD MTS in this contest.
Match the scramble: dnf, dnf, dnf, dnf, dnf :confused:
Twice I scrambled the already scrambled cube. Three times I got parity which I have not yet thought out how to handle backwards. I know, it is just to do all moves exactly in reverse order, but my hands and brain does not cooperate at that yet. My brain is busy reversing the cubies.

 

[Mike Hughey]

3x3x3 multiBLD: DNS

If I had known that I wouldn't have gone for five!

I put "DNS" instead of "DNS yet" because I'm not sure if I'll get to it. But I still might - depends on how busy things are tonight and whether or not Arnaud beats me with the next one. It's been hard getting to everything because of practice plus the trip.

It was very sad to see that you didn't succeed at bigBLD. More persons than I thought so, it was clear from the chat-room comments on both 4BLD & 5BLD. But it was very nice to be able to follow you and your daughters live at the Ohio web site.

Thanks, Mats. I saw some of the comments as they went up on the screen - thanks to everyone who was watching. It was very disappointing - I just couldn't seem to hit a big cube BLD solve to save my life last weekend. But it was a lot of fun participating with my daughters all weekend - we had lots of fun, even if the BLD was a total disaster for me. Oh well, maybe next time.

 

[MichaelErskine]

Is there still time to add results? Right, I'm doing a few more then!

 

[guusrs]

fmc: R F2 U2 R2 F' B R B2 R2 U R' U R U R' U R U R U' R' D' F' U' F2 R' F' R2 U' R' U2 (31)

explanation:
2x2x3: R F2 U2 R2 F' B R B2 (8)
F2L: R2 U R' U R U R' U R U R U' R' D' (22)
LL: F' U' F2 R' F' R2 U' R' U2 (31)
good start, poor ending
Gus

 

[AvGalen]

Damn, Baian, How did you find an insertion that flips 2 edges and 3 corners? :O

And I'm happy with 126 moves...

Uhm, that insertion looks like a "normal" (mirrored) OLL to me: L' U' L2 F' L' F2 U' F' U2

I am guessing he knows this OLL (or its inverse): R U R2 F R F2 U F

Coincedence? Guus just used that exact OLL in his "poor ending"

 

[Mike Hughey]

I went ahead and added everything above except 4x4x4 fewest moves. Mats made me feel guilty about multi, so I decided to do a quick one. 5 cubes seems so easy when you're used to doing 10. Maybe I should have just done 5 at Ohio, huh?