Accomplishment Thread

[MiloD]

2:38.19 5x5 avg of 10.

I'll get it below 2:30 before Armonk.

 

[Leviticus]

how the heck do you do it? i suck at 5x5 i average about 3.20 and im even suckier at edges

 

[Johannes91]

15.41 OH WHI vBulletin is stupid

 

[dChan]

Yesterday I had way more low to mid 30 second one-handed solves than anything in the 40 second range. I did an average of 10/12 and 7/12 of the solves were in the 30s(with the RA formula that is 6/10 of the solves in the 30s). I still only got a 40.53 second average but near the end of the day I got a new fastest time of 29.51 seconds. Going into the last c/e pair I built the LL orientation as I paired and inserted the c/e pair which made me so happy that I know LL control. Everyone should definitely learn a little bit of it. I will do another average today to see if I can duplicate my solves yesterday but this time get 7/12 solves under 40 without getting a 40 second average, lol. I am super happy because Discovery Science Center 2008 is only four days away. I'm definitely getting sub-40 this year.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I got more than usual sub-20s with two-handed solving yesterday. Maybe I will get a sub-20 average soon? I even broke my PB by .10 milliseconds, lol.

 

[Johannes91]

I even broke my PB by .10 milliseconds, lol.

You know that .10 milliseconds equals 0.0001 seconds, right?

 

[dChan]

Agh, so does that still mean my 16.25 new PB is .10 milliseconds faster than 16.32(I didn't realize my previous PB was not 16.35 so I assummed it is .10)? I should have said .10 seconds right?

 

[Johannes91]

One millisecond = 1/1000 seconds, so .10 milliseconds = 1/10000 seconds.

Agh, so does that still mean my 16.25 new PB is .10 milliseconds faster than 16.32

I guess you can say that, but it's also 70 milliseconds faster.

I should have said .10 seconds right?

That would've been correct: 16.35 - 0.10 = 16.25.

 

[dChan]

Thanks Johannes. I completely did not realize what I was saying. I forgot that my timer measures in seconds and not milliseconds.

 

[Mike Hughey]

5x5x5 Average of 10: 3:11.73

3:11.22, (2:58.70), 3:12.25, 3:00.81, 3:02.47, 3:14.36, 3:07.37, 3:26.45, (3:28.22), 3:09.87, 3:22.06, 3:10.42

Still nowhere near my outrageous competition average of 3:03, but this is the first time it ever felt close to that at home. 9 seconds better than my previous personal best.

 

[MiloD]

how the heck do you do it? i suck at 5x5 i average about 3.20 and im even suckier at edges

I think flowing edges is the most important thing in the world when it comes to 5x5.

I do like 10 slow to medium solves in a row before I ever start timing and focus on few moves, smooth twisting and preserving connected pieces....warm up is really important on 5x5, at least for me....when I first start, if I try to go fast I lock up and get like 100 X-center twists while completely spacing out and taking like 20 seconds to find the blue/white edge which is right in front of my face....

its also easy to optimize all your edge insertions going slow...good time to practice that..

 

[Dene]

Yes, I hate that. It happens to me normally every solve, an edge right there on the top face, and I look for ages to find it...

 

[Kenneth]

Improved a little to 1:33.78 .... It is probably the UWR.

And now it is 1:33.53 ... I.Q.Ball it is, single time

 

[masterofthebass]

Average: 14.29
Individual Solving Times: 14.27, 14.88, (12.97), 14.22, (15.66), 14.25, 14.52, 14.84, 15.59, 13.27, 13.30, 13.71


Yeah! Done on my new Edison Cube. I think I'm using this cube now. This was intense...

 

[ExoCorsair]

Statistics for 04-16-2008 15:39:06

Average: 18.07
Standard Deviation: 1.00
Best Time: 16.78
Worst Time: 24.77
Individual Times:
1. (16.78) F2 L' D' R2 B2 F D2 F R2 B2 D2 U B U2 R2 F' U' R U' L2 R D R' U2 F'
2. 18.81 F2 U B' F2 D2 U L' B' F2 L R' D' U B2 F' R' B F' U' F2 D U2 L2 D' B2
3. 17.81 D' U L' R B' F' U R B2 L R' D U F D B' F D L R' F2 L2 F2 U B'
4. 17.56 F' L' U2 R B' F' L2 D' L' D2 U' L2 D' L2 D' U F2 U' F L' R F2 D' U R'
5. 18.19 B2 D U' L' R' B' R D' U2 L R D' U' B F' U' L' F L2 R' D' U B F2 R2
6. 17.09 L F L2 R' D R2 B F' L R' B D2 L' B2 F D U B' L D U B2 F L' U
7. (24.77) R2 B2 D' U' L R' D' U' F' R2 F' D U F' D' U' B' D' U B R D2 B' R' D'
8. 18.31 B L R F D2 U B' L R2 B F D U' B2 L' R' D2 U2 B' U' L' R2 U F' U'
9. 19.70 L B' L2 U R' B' F L' B' F' U' B' F2 L2 R D2 B2 F2 L R F2 R' U' B U'
10. 16.88 R2 U L' R' D' F' U2 L B F2 D' F' D2 L B F2 R' B L2 F U' R B' F' L2
11. 19.41 B' L R B2 L R U' B' F2 D F2 L' R2 B F' L2 D2 U B' L U2 B' R D2 F2
12. 16.97 U F2 L' D U' B F L' D B2 F' D' U2 B F2 D2 U L' B' L' D U2 B' U' B

So close, yet so far away... Will try a rolling after eating.

 

[Siraj A.]

I solved the 6x6 on Gabbasoft in 11:43.54!!

 

[fanwuq]

Finally sub-25 after 5 months since sub-30!
But this is only on ryanheise sim. Real cube is about 3-7 seconds slower like always. I could have been sub-24, possibly sub-23, but ryanheise does not get rid of the best and worst. I will try to calculate that manually. Almost all were sub-23. The 25 and 24 were because I only had 3 minutes before the school computer lab closes, so I got nervous. The 39 was a disaster. I did the easy cross so slowly. I messed up badly on one F2L pair. And I did the Z perm twice and very slowly executed it. If I wasn't so excited by the good solves before it, it should have been about a 26. I suck at Z, N, and E on the simulator. I usually spend about 6-10+ seconds on them. But they are quite fast on a real cube. Especially Z. Now I will try to sub 25 on the real cube.
22.74 seconds 18.66 seconds 39.64 seconds 21.08 seconds 22.66 seconds 25.63 seconds 21.05 seconds 24.53 seconds 24.05 seconds 22.34 seconds average of 10 of 10 is 24.24, average of 8 of 10 is 23.01.
http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/record.cgi?db=average&name=Wuqiong+Fan

 

[ExoCorsair]

Sub-NaR 5x5x5 solve, albeit only by .01 seconds - 1:35.80.

 

[dChan]

Wow, new OH best for me in only a few days since my last PB was broken. I was just practicing as normal this week which consists of doing 10 regular solves then 10 OH solves and then alternating throughout the day. So I was sitting down in the middle of one of my OH solves and my mom came into the living room and started talking to me. She was talking to me so I paid a little more attention to her than my OH solve that I was doing. Once I saw that the OH solve was complete I clicked my stopwatch and I took a casual look at the time and I was so surprised to see 25.72! I was barely even paying attention to the solve. My mom was surprised as well and she wouldn't believe me until I showed her the stopwatch, lol. Afterthat I got a 38.xx followed by a 26.xx! So after that I knew that I really did have the ability to go that fast(I never thought I would be able to be THAT fast). Unfortunately, in the same set of 12 I got a 56, 53, and 48. If you take off the 25 and the 56 and calculate my average it is still only 40.18 seconds which sucks because if I didn't have those two bad times it would easily have been sub-40. I had a 25 and a 26! How did I not get sub-40? Oh well, maybe it means I'll get my best average this Saturday at the competition?

I can dream!

 

[Dene]

This is what happens to me as well, many sub 34 solves, then a couple of bad ones really screws up an average. The important thing is the potential, the times will get more consistent!

 

[dChan]

Yeah, I guess but it really sucks. Right now my times are between 30 and 44 seconds which is like a big range. Sometimes I'll hit 33 only to get above 40 seconds the next solve but then I keep getting times in the 30 second range and suddenly my average rises because of a few bad apples(this happened to me again yesterday). It is really frustrating. But I guess that is why we practice!