Only happy with the 2BLD, everything else didn't go to plan. 2x2x2 BLD: 53.95, 35.24, 24.37 = 24.37 3x3x3 BLD: DNF, DNF, 1:47.22 = 1:47.22 (I've switch my memo and solving order around so I'll be temporarily worse) 4x4x4 BLD: DNF, DNF, DNF = DNF 5x5x5 BLD: DNF, DNF, DNS = DNF 3x3 Multi BLD: 4/5 (19:19.51) = 3 points
Wow, this was a bad week. Perhaps the worst week I’ve ever had, relative to my ability. Part of it is probably lack of time to practice due to vacation; part of it is probably distraction due to my learning BH wings. I’m getting close to knowing them all, but recall is still slow on a lot of them.
Mike Hughey:
My non-BLD event of the week: 3x3x3 Fewest Moves:30 moves
1x2x3: R2 F’ B2 U L’
2x cross: F’ B2 L’ B’ U2 B2
3rd pair: D F2 D’
4th pair: R F’ R’ F’ R F R’
OLL: D F D R’ D’ R F’ D’
AUF: F
Comment: Normally, I would be very very happy with a 30 move solution, but I see from the other results this week that this is actually a terrible result – it looks like I’ll be in the bottom few. The level of fewest moves has just gotten incredibly good lately!
The BLD events: 2x2x2 BLD: DNF, 21.00, 28.99 = 21.00
Comment: Pretty good for me. 3x3x3 BLD: DNF [2:01.31], 1:47.59, DNF [1:32.14] = 1:47.59
Comment: First one off by 3 corners – it was a hard one. Third one was easy, but I mismemorized the corners and was off by 4 corners. Very bad. 4x4x4 BLD: DNF [9:13.21, 4:36], DNF [9:24.50, 4:25], DNF [8:29.81, 3:45] = DNF
Comment: Ugh. I almost never DNF all three – this is just horrible! I was doing BH wings for all of these. First one off by 2 centers – I executed UC instead of XC (I thought I was doing XC, but I wasn’t). Second one was scrambled badly, but only 2 centers were wrong – I’m not sure what went wrong here, since it was so badly scrambled. Third one was off by 2 centers, because even though I memorized that they needed swapping, I forgot to do them. 5x5x5 BLD: 17:58.20 [8:01], 18:35.76 [9:37], 17:07.90 [7:49] = 17:58.20
Comment: I did all BH wings on these, which was very slow sometimes since I had trouble finding/remembering some of the cases. But I’m very happy for the successes – it helps make up for the 4x4x4 BLD disaster. 3x3x3 multiBLD:2/3 = 1 point, 8:56.88 [4:51]
Comment: Third one was off by 3 corners – I executed EJ instead of JE. At least the time was reasonably fast.
And non-BLD events done BLD: 2x2x2: 35.19, DNF, 40.73, 24.92, 23.30 = 33.61
Comment: Okay. 3x3x3: 1:42.09, 2:24.21, DNF [1:43.97], DNF [1:54.55], 1:38.52 = DNF
Comment: I hate it – another DNF! Third one off by 3 edges and 2 corners; fourth one off by a bunch of edges because I missed a U turn somewhere. Second one had a terrible memory recall pause. Magic: 12.02, 14.50, 10.53, 12.53, 10.43 = 11.69
Comment: OHITABLD, of course. Not very good because I didn’t warm up first. Master Magic: 4.78, 6.06, 4.52, 4.00, 4.03 = 4.44 Clock:2:27.68 [0:36], 2:08.63 [0:27], 1:55.56 [0:28], 2:01.75 [0:30], 2:23.96 [0:23] = 2:11.45
Comment: Well, I guess now I qualify as being terribly slow at this – my best time was way more than double the UWR. It was fun being not bad at it for a while, anyway. Pyraminx:DNF [1:31.96], 1:17.11, 1:19.38, 1:43.02, 1:49.53 = 1:37.31
Comment: First one off by 2 edges flipped. At least I got an average. Square-1: DNF [8:24.84, 5:36], 4:52.96 [2:45], 4:28.06 [2:25], 4:33.46 [2:32], DNF [5:26.27, 2:58] = DNF
Comment: I really hate having a square-1 DNF average. First one was off by 6 edges – I recalled the edge matrix images in the wrong order. I also discovered I had memorized the corners in that matrix incorrectly – I need to get the correction on the website – but since it was only one corner that was wrong, it was easy to figure out what the correct matrix was. The last one was off by 4 edges because I turned U instead of D to undo a setup move, resulting in an M2 off – stupid mistake. Cases: PU, NQ, NQ, HB, RW. (It’s nice when you get the same case twice in a row – very easy to recall the matrix the second time!)
222: (1.67), (5.69), 5.03, 2.48, 4.64 = 4.05
Comments: That might be the funniest average I have ever done. The first one was lucky. The next two were fail EG and CLL. 2.48 was EG-2 and the last one was CLL fail. Wow.
333: 19.42, (20.15), (16.81), 18.37, 16.86 = 18.22
Comments: The last was a total fail T-perm.
444: 1:48.28, (1:27.31), 1:33.36, 2:12.93, (DNF) = 1:51.52
Comments: Note to self, GET A BETTER 4X4!
fmc: D2 F2 U2 L F2 U' D B D' R2 U R D' R' U' R D2 B' D' R' U' B U D2 B' (25)
pseudo 2x2x3: D2 F2 U2 L F2 U' (6+2)
pseudo F2L: D B D' R2 (10+2)
LL-edges: * R D B' D' R' U' B U (17+2)
undo pseudoness: D2 B' (19)
at * insert U R D' R' U' R D R' to solve corners, 2 moves cancel
to understand 10 move F2L turn pre-scramble moves D2 B' (btw I didn't need them)
2x2x2: (1.34), 4.85, 4.37, 1.86, (4.96) = 3.69
2 pretty silly scrambles there 3x3x3: (15.04), (13.59), 14.85, 14.87, 14.20 = 14.64 4x4x4: 1:01.20, 1:00.30, (57.49), (1:07.39), 1:00.32 = 1:00.61 5x5x5: 2:04.31, (2:06.95), (1:56.00), 2:02.26, 2:01.25 = 2:02.61 6x6x6: 4:46.40, 4:42.53, (4:57.47), 4:26.55, (2:35.41) = 4:38.49 7x7x7: (7:35.48), 7:26.10, 7:05.79, (7:03.93), 7:15.50 = 7:15.80 2x2x2BLD: 24.82, 22.10, DNF = 22.10 3x3x3BLD: 1:38.40, 1:23.52, 1:19.22 = 1:19.22 4x4x4BLD: DNF, DNF, 5:20.83 = 5:20.83 5x5x5BLD: DNF, 14:03.02, DNF = 14:03.02
My accuracy on bigbld wasn't great MultiBLD: 8/8 30:06 OH: 28.64, 25.80, (29.63), (25.47), 27.69 = 27.38 Feet: 1:20.46, 1:16.52, (1:15.02), 1:25.93, (1:36.21) = 1:20.97 MTS: 42.81, (38.70), 41.74, 43.32, (46.48) = 42.62 2x2x2+3x3x3+4x4x4: 1:27.01 2x2x2+3x3x3+4x4x4+5x5x5: 3:26.03 Magic 1.54, 1.48, (1.46), (1.96), 1.54 = 1.52 Master Magic: 4.95, 4.83, (4.38), (6.05), 4.98 = 4.92 Clock: 7.49, 8.04, (8.21), (7.19), 7.42 = 7.65 Megaminx: 1:48.22, (1:42.52), 1:48.07, (1:58.55), 1:56.43 = 1:50.91 Pyraminx: 4.26, (7.60), 7.58, (4.01), 6.11 = 5.98
1st solve is just a joke. 4th solve I had L4E and AUF skip Square-1: 31.05, (36.29), 27.62, (26.45), 27.05 = 28.57 FMC: 33 moves R2 L' F2 L D' R B U B U B' L' B' L U' F' L F' L2 F L' F' D' B D' B' D2 L' D' L D L F2
Scramble: B L2 U' R D B R U B U' F L2 F R2 B U F2 R
2x2x2: R2 L' F2 L D' (5)
Blocks: R B U B U B' L' B' L U' (15)
F2l: F' L F' L' (19)
PLL: L' F L' F' D' B D' B' D2 L' D' L D L F2 (33)
Sucks that I had to do PLL
4x4x4 Blindfolded: DNF (36:20.64 [25:xx]), DNF (35:59.66 [25.xx]), 32:03.62 [21.xx] = 32:03.62 PB The first and last time I tried this was a couple of months ago. My previous best attempt was 55 minutes. On the first one I missed parity on the edges so had 2 edges wrong, plus 2 centers wrong. On the second there were two centers swapped. Of my 6 ever attempts, I’ve got 2 3x3x3 Multiple Blindfolded: 3/3 (25:27.47) PB My first attempt at 3 cubes. Obviously it went very well. Square-1: (2:18.23), 2:14.39, 2:03.17, (1:56.75), 2:07.01 = 2:08.19 3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 36 PB This took about 15 min, and beat my old record by 1 move
2x2x2: R B2 U’ B’ U R2 U’ 7
2x2x3: R’ D’ F R (F’) * 4/11
F2L#3: D R’ D’ R D’ 5/16
F2L#4: R F’ R’ F 4/20
LL edges: D R D’ R’ D’ F D F’ R 9/29
LL corners at *: (F) L F’ R F L’ F’ R’ 7/36
Solution: R B2 U’ B’ U R2 U’ R’ D’ F R L F’ R F L’ F’ R’ D R’ D’ R D’ R F’ R’ F D R D’ R’ D’ F D F’ R
Scramble: B L2 U' R D B R U B U' F L2 F R2 B U F2 R
3x X-Cross: F2 R U2 D L F2 B' D2 F U' B' (I was trying out things with a Premove B' 2x2x3 block, but this way the premove wasn't even needed)
F2L+OLL: F L F' L' U' F2 U * F' (easy, but lucky)
Edges at *: U' D F2 B2 U' D B' U2 D2 F R2 L2 (the only way I could cancel a move out of a Z-Perm, not happy with this)
Solution: F2 R U2 D L F2 B' D2 F U' B' F L F' L' U' F2 D F2 B2 U' D B' U2 D2 F R2 L2 F'
but...but...but... You are already getting incredible times at 4x4x4 BLD, and I assume you would for 5x5x5 BLD as well. Why not spend even a little bit of time on at least 4BLD seeing as you're already one of the best in the world at it?
but...but...but... You are already getting incredible times at 4x4x4 BLD, and I assume you would for 5x5x5 BLD as well. Why not spend even a little bit of time on at least 4BLD seeing as you're already one of the best in the world at it?
PB
