Negative Time Solving Contest 2013

[Mikel]

Mike, I'm thinking 4x4x4 multiBLD again. I don't know if you have something else crazy planned, but if not you should consider 4x4x4multi

I would do it, but I only have 2 4x4's and that seems a little small. Maybe 5x5 Multi? I have three of those

 

[TMOY]

Just finished my 2-9 relay in the slooooow time of -6:27.75. (I didn't want to attempt anything BLD because I felt I would probably DNF). Now I'm going to sleep.

 

[ben1996123]

well i really ****ed that up

9 cycle omfg

final time -17:23.912, 19962 moves, -19.122 tps

whatpulse got ****ed up because timetravel and kept making an alert every minute which made the sim window lose focus too so yeah

 

[Mike Hughey]

I would do it, but I only have 2 4x4's and that seems a little small. Maybe 5x5 Multi? I have three of those

3 5x5x5s sounds rather challenging. Not that hard, but still a little scary - I could see going positive if memo is bad. But I admit 5x5x5 multi sounds more fun than 4x4x4 multi. Besides, my 4x4x4 multi record is perfect - I'd hate to ruin it. I've only done one 4x4x4 multi ever, it was done in negative time, and it was 4/4. I don't want to mess up my record.

I haven't done a really big cube in ages. I was contemplating a 7x7x7. But again, a bad solve could go positive, especially with me out of practice.

 

[Coolster01]

I'm so excited! Gonna do 3x3, Feet, Pyraminx, and Megaminx.

 

[BoBoGuy]

Im gonna do 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5 relay. and OH

 

[soup]

Going with 143puzzle, also will make recording of it.

 

[Mike Hughey]

7x7x7 BLD: -17:02!

Memorization time: 22:18
Execution time: -39:20

I started early because I wanted my execution time to be negative. FTL execution time!

 

[Sa967St]

I almost missed it, but I got in a -59:49.49 3x3x3 solve just in time. I didn't have time to set up my video camera, unfortunately. I remember how the solve went, so I'll post the reconstruction tomorrow morning.

Spoiler: reconstruction

Scramble: B U2 F U2 R2 B L2 B' D2 R2 F2 R' F L' D U' B D F' D2

z2 \\ Inspection
R' u U2 L F' y2 r U' r' D2 \\ Cross
y2 U' R U R' U y' R' U' R \ First slot
y2 R U R' U' y R' U' R \\ Second slot
U2 y' R U' R' U y R U' R' \\ Third slot
y' R U' R' U2 R U' R'\\ Last slot (CLS)
U2 y F2 L' U' r U2 l' U R' U' l2\\ PLL

 

[That70sShowDude]

Literally jumped out of bed realizing there were less than 2 minutes left. -59:46.96 3x3 solve.

 

[qqwref]

24x24x24 solved in -7:43.562, 8077 moves

 

[Noahaha]

 

[kcl]

I finished watching a movie and did the same thing as Sarah when I remembered. I did a -59:50.35 3x3 solve, unfortunately not filmed. It was 9, so I don't even care that I couldn't do something cooler because it was a really nice solve.

Edit: Scramble before I forget

D' U' B2 R2 U B2 D F2 U B2 L2 B D2 B D L F' D' R F' R2

 

[qqwref]

You got a 5.65?!?

 

[kcl]

You got a 5.65?!?

Wat.. My bad. lol typo. I'm honestly not even sure how I did that.. Clearly I need to get some sleep.

Ok fixed now 9.65

 

[cmhardw]

I had a blast this negative time contest! I did a 3x3x3 BLD at a Waffle House in -56:28.39 minutes! The adjacent booth was a group of drunk people, and their commentary both during and after my solve was hilarious! The Waffle House negative time run was me, my fiancee Katie, and my friend Paul from high school. We had a successful negative time Waffle House run, arriving back at our place 9 minutes before we left

This was definitely one of my most fun and memorable negative time contests!

 

[AJ Blair]

-59 minutes, 47.17 seconds. Only .17 faster than last year, but whatever. Still had fun

I finished watching a movie and did the same thing as Sarah when I remembered. I did a -59:50.35 3x3 solve, unfortunately not filmed. It was 9, so I don't even care that I couldn't do something cooler because it was a really nice solve.

Edit: Scramble before I forget

D' U' B2 R2 U B2 D F2 U B2 L2 B D2 B D L F' D' R F' R2

So you didn't use the scramble provided?

 

[Mikel]

So I went to bed before the change time and had my phone wake me up at 1:56am so I could do my solve. I think it somehow woke me up at the 2nd 1:56am and not the first one

If anyone cares, I did a 3x3 BLD solve in 1:52.00 Maybe I can achieve negative time next year.

 

[shelley]

At 1:50am I made a last minute decision to do a team BLD attempt with Kenneth (ToastyKen). This gave us just enough time to give him a crash course in the Berkeley calling method and one practice solve before starting the real attempt. We ran into a snafu near the end and our PLL involved three corners on the top and bottom layers, but we managed to finish in -56:41.14.

Why the sudden inclination toward teamwork? As of last night, Kenneth is now my fiance

 

[stoic]

Why the sudden inclination toward teamwork? As of last night, Kenneth is now my fiance

Woah, is nobody commenting on this? Is is legit?
Congrats!!!