Mike Hughey:
My non-BLD event of the week:
3x3x3: 22.90, 22.36,
21.96,
24.63, 23.36 =
22.87
Comment: Pretty good for me.
The BLD events:
2x2x2 BLD: 31.46, 23.36, 36.09 =
23.36
3x3x3 BLD: 1:41.53, 1:33.91, DNF [1:43.84] =
1:33.91
Comment: Third one off by an R turn and 5 edges – must have missed an R turn somewhere.
4x4x4 BLD: 7:50.47 [4:18], 6:43.31 [3:37], 7:35.13 [4:37] =
6:43.31
Comment: Nice!
5x5x5 BLD: DNF [15:46.49, 8:00], DNF [16:47.70, 8:59], 13:38.07 [6:57] =
13:38.07
Comment: First one had 2 centrals flipped, second one had 3 corners wrong. Third one was just amazing.
3x3x3 multiBLD: 1/3 = DNF, 8:11.18 [4:42]
Comment: I should be disappointed, but I’m not, because of the time! First cube was off by 3 edges – I forgot to do an image. Third cube was off by 2 edges flipped – I did a 3 cycle incorrectly.
And non-BLD events done BLD:
2x2x2: 21.93,
20.06,
DNF [29.46], 29.53, 42.36 =
31.27
Comment: Third one off by 3 pieces.
6x6x6: DNF [31:56.20, 18:01], DNS, DNS, DNS, DNS =
DNF
Comment: Completely scrambled. Corners were off by a single turn and double parity (I applied parity in the wrong place), so it appears certain I misoriented the cube sometime early but after I did the corners. I knew it was off the whole time I was solving because the cube was having alignment problems the wrong direction the whole time. But I didn’t expect it to be this scrambled!
7x7x7: DNF [55:49.52, 27:47], DNS, DNS, DNS, DNS =
DNF
Comment: This was not a good week for really big cubes BLD for me. Apparently it was a bunch of little mistakes. I was off by 8 obliques, 3 inner + centers, 3 inner X centers, and 6 inner wings. The wings appeared to be a mismemorization. A few of the obliques were due to a mismemorization that I realized when I was solving; I tried to reason out what the correct memorization was, but there wasn't enough information to fully figure it out so I guessed. I'd guess this took at least 5 minutes, so really the solve wasn't that slow except for that.
3x3x3 OH: DNF [3:40.40], DNF [4:10.81], 4:16.78, 2:36.03, 3:16.52 =
DNF
Comment: First one off by 3 corners; second one off by 2 edges flipped; second and third ones both had bad memorization recall pauses.
Magic: 13.00, 11.83, 11.59,
8.96, 12.11 =
11.84
Comment: OHITABLD.
Master Magic: 4.09, 4.00,
3.69,
5.25, 3.80 =
3.96
Clock: DNF [2:34.33, 0:38], DNF [2:38.50, 0:25], DNF [1:59.75, 0:30], 1:56.88 [0:34], DNF [2:02.33, 0:26] =
DNF
Comment: Wow, that was bad. Little mistakes from trying to go too fast. Two of them would have been +2 with suggested adjusted rules: the first and third ones required just one turn one notch to solve. The second one had 2 centers and 2 edges off by 2 each, and the fifth one required 2 turns one notch each to fix it.
Pyraminx: 1:54.05, 1:13.16, 1:30.31,
1:00.47, 1:04.15 =
1:15.87
Comment: If I just go a little bit slower, I can get reasonable accuracy. I’m going to try harder for this in the future.
Square-1: DNF [10+, 3:45], DNF [5:20.30, 2:35], DNF [5:33.06, 3:41], 6:00.51 [3:43], 6:00.14 [3:01] =
DNF
Comment: Very disappointing; all stupid mistakes. First one I memorized the whole thing upside down and didn’t realize it until I started solving, then I forgot how I was supposed to hold it. Really stupid. Second one had the shapes upside down from my memorized position; I’m supposed to line the pieces up on the left instead of the right, do a slice move, then do (6,6) before continuing; I forgot to do the (6,6). Hopefully I’ll remember this and never make that mistake again. Third one I had edge parity and realized it, but I forgot to do it at the end. Cases US, DC, NW, DA, QV.