Time Limit in Competition

[nitrocan]

I am going to go to my first competition next week and I am curious about the time limits. There seems to be a 10 minute limit to the blindfold solving. What I am curious about is that if that limit is for one solve, or all of my 3 possible tries? If it's for all of them, then I have to memorize really carefully

 

[joey]

It is the time limit for each attempt.

 

[nitrocan]

Thats great! Since I get 6-8 minutes for a solve.
Do you think the audience or the cubing noise will be distracting and I should bring something to prevent that?

 

[TMOY]

Time limits are for only one solve.
If they were for all attempts, some of them would be unrealistic anyway (for 4^3 and 5^3 you would need to break WRs)...

 

[joey]

You can bring some ear plugs or something, to try decrease the noise. I might do it this competition too.

 

[Ton]

Thats great! Since I get 6-8 minutes for a solve.
Do you think the audience or the cubing noise will be distracting and I should bring something to prevent that?

Well I always practise , with noise , so I do not care about noise as long as they call out my name I will not be distraced.

 

[Cubenovice]

OK, I know I am bumping a very old thread but it has got exactly the right title and this is the most relevant search result I got.

Just as the OP I am about to enter my first competition and I have a question about the time limits.

A the 2010 Belgian open there is a time limit of 4 minutes for the 4x4x4.
Currently I am not getting this time but I would still like to get an official time on this event.

So if I am still busy at the 4 minute mark do I get a DNF per default.
OR
Could I perhaps just keep solving, get an official time and get a DNS on my second solve (so as not to slow down the scramblers and other competitors).
And perhaps join in again on the 3rd solve to get a seconfd try?

In WCA rankings I see 4x4x4 times up to 10 minutes so I would assume the second option is feasible?
Should I perhaps check with the (main) judge upfront?

Thanks for your feedback.

 

[dunpeal2064]

OK, I know I am bumping a very old thread but it has got exactly the right title and this is the most relevant search result I got.

Just as the OP I am about to enter my first competition and I have a question about the time limits.

A the 2010 Belgian open there is a time limit of 4 minutes for the 4x4x4.
Currently I am not getting this time but I would still like to get an official time on this event.

So if I am still busy at the 4 minute mark do I get a DNF per default.
OR
Could I perhaps just keep solving, get an official time and get a DNS on my second solve (so as not to slow down the scramblers and other competitors).
And perhaps join in again on the 3rd solve to get a seconfd try?

In WCA rankings I see 4x4x4 times up to 10 minutes so I would assume the second option is feasible?
Should I perhaps check with the (main) judge upfront?

Thanks for your feedback.

You get to keep solving that solve, you just don't get to do the whole avg.

4 minute 4x4 cutoff? wow

 

[RyanO]

Cut off times depend on how the organizers are running the competition. One common way of handling it is a combined final where those who don't meet the cut off times in their first 2 solves don't get to continue their average. If the competition has a hard cut off, you will be stopped and given a DNF once you pass that time.

 

[Bryan]

It varies for every competition. For OH in Iowa, we had a hard limit of 2:00. If you go over that, you're done. This was done to keep us on track. For 4x4, we had limits of combined final = 3:00 and hard limit = 5:00. If you got one solve under 3 minutes in the first two, you could continue. If you got a time over 5:00, it was marked as DNF.

And in some of my competitions, if you over the time limit at any point, you're done, because I don't want to have to keep scrambling your cube when you're obviously not going to meet the time limits.

But it's always going to vary.

 

[TMOY]

Cut off times depend on how the organizers are running the competition. One common way of handling it is a combined final where those who don't meet the cut off times in their first 2 solves don't get to continue their average. If the competition has a hard cut off, you will be stopped and given a DNF once you pass that time.

The hard limit is not always enforced. If the schedule is loose enough, you get to finish your solve even if you don't make the time limit.

If you want to be sure, your best option is to ask the organiser and/or the WCA delegate before the event (at Belgian Open it will be easy, they are the same person )

 

[Cubenovice]

Thanks for your input. I'll check with Lars what the possibilities are.

Looking at some of the slower times in the WCA rankings I see indeed that some long times (also in the Belgian open) are followed by a DNS.
But I also found people with two slow solves so perhaps I even get to set an avarage