(machines here are configured to reboot automatically after updates, but they were smart enough to send save/post commands to all programs!)
continued:
Sunday:
* Continued with the attempt at 10:15
* After a couple of hundred solves I switched back to "not use the new PLL's" because I kept messing them up
* Around 18:00 we decided to go for an "epic number" and decided to make it 2295
* Finished around 20:00 after dropping some people of at the train station.
* The last solve was a blindfold solve to test if my brain/memo could still handle that after not sleeping for 36 hours straight (and after 2.5 hours in 60 hours). It was succesful
General: This wasn't nearly as much fun as I thought. I didn't get faster at all because of the practise and this was even more boring for the scramblers (thanks guys). My body (fingers) didn't get tired at all. Staying focused is the main issue. When Joel was scrambling we raced every couple of solves and I kept getting low twenties while all non-racing solves were high twenties.
Final observations:
* PLL skips are very random. In the first 900 cubes I only had 4. Shortly after that I had 4 PLL skips in 8 solves.
* Knowing algs helps for FMC, but not for speed. Being able to perform F2L-cases and LL-algs without thinking is what is the most important for speed!
* Outside cubing gives better results than inside cubing. Sun-warmth, Sun-light and fresh air are all good!
The only way I think I could do 5050 cubes in a row is by having a box with 5050 scrambled cubes (or a team of robot-scramblers) and solving them 24-hour-marathon style (no inspection, no timekeeping, no stackmat). I would only do that to prove that it can be done, but a regular cube meeting or even a simple weekly competition is just a lot more fun
