Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 11.61, 9.88, 9.97,
11.75,
9.38 =
10.49
3x3x3: 26.03, 22.06, 23.21, 23.58,
21.97 =
22.95
Comment: Wow! Just wow!
4x4x4: 1:25.44 [P], 1:27.50 [P], 1:34.52 [P],
1:42.55 [O], 1:35.86 [O] =
1:32.63
5x5x5: 2:57.55, 2:37.59, 2:41.21, 2:50.36,
2:24.16 =
2:43.05
6x6x6: 5:24.65, 4:55.74,
4:51.63 [O], 5:20.42 [P],
DNF [38:43.06, 14:47] =
5:13.60
Comment: The BLD solve was one of my most frustrating solves ever! First I memorized it ultra-fast - I had told myself I was going to sub-30 this solve, so that meant sub-15 memo, and I did it! So I was pretty excited about the solve. I solved all the X centers really fast, and the first set of obliques too, but then disaster - I couldn't remember the third location on the second set of obliques. So I went ahead and did all the wings first. Unfortunately, that meant I had to leave one wing piece unsolved because of parity, since I need centers solved to fix wing parity. So I put my feet together to remind myself to fix it, and went back to the obliques. At this point I was probably still on pace for sub-30, but I just couldn't recall the obliques. So I figured out what all the possible letters were that were left, and went through every combination I could think of until I finally came up with it - Britney Spears and Wee Man were raking ostriches up in a pile in front of Fiona of Shrek. (How could I forget that?
) By now it was hopelessly slow, so I just wanted to get the solve. I tore into the parity fix, and then realized I wasn't sure if I was doing the outer or inner wing parity algorithm. I realized I had just done the inner slice move on the fourth move, but I couldn't remember what I had done for the first move. So I guessed I had done them both wrong, and went back and fixed it. Result: 3 turns from solved - U2 (inner r2) U2.
So close.
7x7x7: 7:33.18, 8:14.44, 7:38.15, 7:53.87,
48:26.20 [24:46] =
7:55.49
Comment: The BLD solve was the one I reported earlier in the blindfold accomplishments thread – new personal best! And first successful one in 2 months. It’s a relief to finally get one again.
2x2x2 BLD: 34.36, 30.30, DNF [39.43] =
30.30
3x3x3 BLD: 1:51.68, 1:45.90, DNF =
1:45.90
Comment: On the third one, I was going too fast and messed up the first algorithm so badly that I just gave up. I had no idea how to fix it.
4x4x4 BLD: 8:09.94 [4:14], 8:15.43 [4:18], DNF [8:00.44, 4:14] =
8:09.94
Comment: Missed the third one by 3 corners and 2 centers. On the centers, I cycled them the wrong direction.
5x5x5 BLD: 13:43.52 [7:00], DNF [15:40.58, 7:00], DNF [15:23.36, 7:47] =
13:43.52
Comment: The first one was the one with the nice reorient that I reported in the blindfold accomplishments thread. The second one had 2 central edges flipped – I memorized the wrong piece flipped (probably because of reorientation). The reorient on the second one was really nice, though – went from 4 center pieces solved to 13! The third one had 2 X centers and 4 + centers wrong. In both cases, I set up for the commutators incorrectly. I can’t believe I made that same mistake twice!
3x3x3 multiBLD: 3/4 = 2 points, 14:53.74 [9:10]
Comment: Hey, at least I finally cracked the 15 minute barrier! And more importantly, sub-10 memorization. I gotta keep trying this until I get sub-10 for the whole thing. I think this one was a little easy, though - it's going to be hard for me to be consistently this fast. The fourth cube had 2 edges flipped; I didn't see one of the flipped edges when memorizing.
3x3x3 OH: 1:05.25, 47.88, 43.21,
40.75, 45.75 =
45.61
3x3x3 WF: 3:19.13, 1:54.25, 1:37.88,
1:29.46, 1:37.96 =
1:43.36
Comment: On the first one, I messed up the V perm.
3x3x3 Match the scramble: 1:12.94, 1:21.97, 1:15.52,
1:31.34,
1:06.77 =
1:16.81
2-4 relay: 2:19.27 [O]
2-5 relay: 5:13.86 [O]
Magic: 2.03, 1.71,
1.68, 3.06,
4.28 =
2.27
Comment: I need to practice Magic more. At least do some warmup solves or something.
Master Magic: 3.90,
5.56, 4.08, 3.91, 4.52 =
4.17
Clock: 18.52, 19.02, 18.38,
18.28,
21.00 =
18.64
MegaMinx: 3:08.13, 3:05.40, 3:02.60, 2:32.31,
2:21.76 =
2:53.44
Pyraminx: 18.63,
23.86, 15.43,
13.31, 14.81 =
16.29
Square-1: 3:00.83 [P], 56.80 [P],
49.63, 1:00.43 [P], 1:02.46 [P] =
59.90
Comment: Next year I’m going to get back in shape with square-1, and also learn (from David’s video) to get to square optimally.
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 37 moves
D’ R2 D R U F’ U2 R’ U2 R2 U’ R’ B2 D’ R’ B’ R D’ B U B’ D B D R’ U’ R2 B2 R’ B2 U B U’ B’ L U L’
Done with one level of NISS.
2x2x2: D’ R2 D R U F’
2x2x3: U2 R’ U2 R2 U’ R’
switch to inverse scramble:
3x cross: L U’ L’ B U B’ U’
4th pair: B2 R B2 R2 U R U’
OLL: D’ B’ . R’ B R D B2
insert at .: B U B’ D’ B U’ B’ D
B’ B cancel before insertion; U’ from 4th pair and U from insertion cancel.
