Enough personal bests. Time for personal worsts.

[FaTyl]

What was your worst non-DNF result that you can remember? I'll start:

Spoiler: My worst 3x3 single

Bit of a funny story for this one. On April 1 2023, I was doing some casual solves on my old Dayan Zhanchi, when it popped in the middle of a solve. Like always, I found, picked up, and put every piece back...except one. I looked everywhere in my room for several minutes, thinking that the piece had just vanished, when I finally found it. It had fallen onto my desk's keyboard drawer, which is painted black. Black piece, black desk, it blended in. I finished the solve, and stopped the timer. The time?

6:44.966.

Keep in mind, this was in 2023 (the current year at the time of writing). I got an official sub-12 average just a week later (with a better cube of course). I wasn't a beginner, just stupid.

 

[Ayce]

I think I already love this thread, currently in my 15,000 solve cs session, started March 2020, my worst time to date is 37.57. No funny story sadly, just me being bad.

 

[OtaMota]

My worst times in recent history for 2x2 are two Super 20s I got on the same day. One of them, I did the wrong alg, so I had to do a Y perm, I messed up the Y perm, so I either had to do it again, or I had to do a hard CLL case I can't remember. I messed up again but finally got an easy case so I did the alg and it finally solved with a time of above 20.

I don't know the story about the other super-20 though.

 

[VincentCuber]

I think I already love this thread, currently in my 15,000 solve cs session, started March 2020, my worst time to date is 37.57. No funny story sadly, just me being bad.

I have a 42

 

[Cubinginatree]

Worst 3x3 solve ever is a 2:10.xx
Worst 5x5 is slower than my worse 6x6 solve.
Quick screenshot of official 2x2 times:

That was in august lol. The rest of the average was just because I was half asleep but the 14 was because I did Ortega. I use Layer, OLL, PLL. I had to redo the whole solve which ended up having a y-perm. The video of it is hilarious.

 

[An Animating Cuber]

Pyraminx:

Generated By csTimer+ on 2023-09-13
single: 58.82

Time List:
1. 58.82 B R L' U' B U B' L' b u @2023-09-13 20:36:03

I'm not sure what happened, I think I popped.

 

[NebraskanSpeedsolver]

I had a solve once, I was solving 4x4 ( I average 1:25 at the time ) and I got a massive pop
I decided to fix it and finish the solve
I think I ended with a 3 minute or something like that
I can't find it tho

 

[GloopyGum]

This happened in my second round of 4x4 (ever)

PR average and single

 

[Deleted member 74176]

I’ll tell the story of the worst official 3x3 solve I’ve ever done: a 1:03.11 (at the time I averaged 11.) So I was on pace for a great solve (PR potential!) when in the last few moves of the J-Perm, an edge piece flew out of my Gan 11 M Pro. Somehow after the pop, two of the corners had swapped places (and more pieces fell out of the cube), which I didn’t notice until after I retrieved the piece (which had bounced quite a bit away from the table) meaning I had to take the edge and corners out, and then reassemble the cube, and then, to make matters even worse, it was a +2! Also, the solve before this, I didn’t start the timer (meaning a DNF) so this was a counting solve in my first time in a 3x3 finals…
I have it all on video here:
Video

 

[Clock_Enthusiast]

My first round of 2x2 in 2015 at my very first comp. I only competed in Pyraminx, Skewb, and 2x2. I used a DaYan V2, which is extremely prone to exploding,

(DNF), 18.60, (14.38), 2:14.02, 50.09

 

[artless1der]

very first ever solve on a 7×7
(first ever on an actual cube bigger than a 5×5)
= 28m55s...
and that was with help from a JR Cuber video showing how to do a commutator to solve last two centers
ftw

 

[JDAW6]

My worst time in 2x2 is 19 seconds , I got this when I was averaging 4 seconds. I did ortega and rotated 4 times plus messing up lags lol

 

[Davian]

As a pyraminxer, I am a a bit scared to tell that my worst time is 33 second solve

 

[abunickabhi]

I love the idea of discussing personal worst.

My worst 3x3 solve is 35 seconds at my first comp in 2013.

 

[Jason Tzeng]

I do my best to search this.

2×2:
1:04.75 (20211010)

3×3:
2:37.28 (20210526, 14th solve, from screenshot)

4×4:
8:36.19 (20220129, 2nd solve)

5×5:
18:54.87 (20220428, 4th solve)

6×6:
15:02.34 (20230621, 2nd solve)

3×3OH:
2:09.90 (20221027, 4th solve)

3BLD:
37:39.86 (20230810, 6th and the only success solve)

Skewb:
4:47.90 (20220120, 4th solve)

Pyra:
1:33.47 (20211016, 12th solve)

Mega:
8:03.77 (20220430, 2nd solve)

Sq-1:
15:40.55 (20230624, 4th solve)

Clock:
1:53.01 (20220712, 1st solve)

 

[randomness...]

my worst 3x3 4x4 relay is 16 minutes.
tryed 2 different ways to solve 3x3 racking up 10 min and tryed my old "petrus style" for 4x4

 

[SpeakCuba]

I really only have in really bad solve, and that was at a comp. It was in SQ-1, and the cutoff was 45 seconds. I averaged right around 25-30 then, so I thought I could make it, but instead got a 1:36.53 on my first solve and a 1:27:07 on my second. I was quite disappointed.

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

At home, I have a 7x7 solve where I popped and lost an edge, and for a week I was sad, but then I ordered an edgepiece replacement from SCS, and got it along with the rest of my order about five days later. I finished the solve, with a time of 14 days, 3 hours, approximately.

In a competition, I had a 4x4 round that was cutoff at 2 minutes. My first solve was a 2:39, and I was so mad that my next time was one double parity away from sub-2: 2:06 was my final time. I'm so mad

 

[Arcanist]

I average around 16 for 3x3 and got a 30 second solve. I accidentally did white cross but with yellow center. I thought it was funny so I finished f2l and then moved it to the white center and then took out and reinserted all my f2l pairs.

 

[Swagrid]

my 2x2 time trend speaks volumes