[WR] Evan Liu - 6.68 Clock Average

[Evan Liu]

7.11, (5.78), 6.73, (DNF), 6.20 = 6.68
Done on Saturday, February 22, the first day of Nottingham Open 2014.
The DNF was a 7.4x so it would have been the worst solve anyway.
In the first round, I did safety solves on the last two after DNFing the third solve.

This is not marked as a WR on the WCA site yet due to the technicality of regulation 9i2. Its status will be updated once all other results from this weekend are in. You can view the discussion of a similar situation from two weeks ago in the Odd Stats thread.
EDIT: Its record status has been updated, yay.

Also, I've posted this in the General Puzzle Discussion subforum instead of the Video Gallery since there is no video (that I know of). I don't think it's necessary to indicate that in the title as well.

Next goal: get this below the 3x3 WR average again.

 

[EMI]

Wow, congrats!

 

[ryanj92]

I'm sad I didn't get to watch/film this...
Let us hope the scrambles are good at WGC so we can hit our targets! (although by your 'trend' you have another 3 comps to do before you get a 6.57 average... )

 

[AmazingCuber]

wow, gj! I wish there was a video . . .

 

[DanpHan]

And I thought I was catching up...

 

[Evan Liu]

Thanks everyone. It's now marked as a WR on the WCA site.
A few more things about this average - it's exactly 1 second faster than my first NAR average (7.68) from December 2012, and its digits are also exactly flipped from those of my first round average (8.66). And yay, it's part of WR podium:

Spoiler: Top 10 Clock Podiums

[table="class:grid"]
[tr][td]Podium[/td][td]Competition[/td][td]#1[/td][td][/td][td]#2[/td][td][/td][td]#3[/td][td][/td][/tr]
[tr][td]22,86[/td][td]Nottingham 2014[/td][td]Evan Liu[/td][td]6,68[/td][td]Ryan Jones[/td][td]7,80[/td][td]Daniel Sheppard[/td][td]8,38[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]23,20[/td][td]World Championship 2011[/td][td]Daniel Sheppard[/td][td]7,51[/td][td]Javier Tirado Ortiz[/td][td]7,71[/td][td]Yu Sajima (佐島優)[/td][td]7,98[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]24,24[/td][td]World Championship 2013[/td][td]Deven Nadudvari[/td][td]7,92[/td][td]Evan Liu[/td][td]7,93[/td][td]Daniel Sheppard[/td][td]8,39[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]24,37[/td][td]Euro 2012[/td][td]Maarten Smit[/td][td]7,24[/td][td]Daniel Sheppard[/td][td]8,40[/td][td]Marcin Jakubowski[/td][td]8,73[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]24,61[/td][td]Berlin Cube Day 2013[/td][td]Laura Ohrndorf[/td][td]7,88[/td][td]Pierre Bouvier[/td][td]8,19[/td][td]Sébastien Auroux[/td][td]8,54[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]25,12[/td][td]Japan Open 2012[/td][td]Yu Sajima (佐島優)[/td][td]8,21[/td][td]Yu Nakajima (中島悠)[/td][td]8,31[/td][td]Taki Sugimoto (杉本太暉)[/td][td]8,60[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]25,18[/td][td]Duisburg Winter 2014[/td][td]Laura Ohrndorf[/td][td]7,71[/td][td]Emil Mickein[/td][td]8,35[/td][td]Sébastien Auroux[/td][td]9,12[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]25,26[/td][td]Valencia Open 2013[/td][td]Laura Ohrndorf[/td][td]8,03[/td][td]Javier Tirado Ortiz[/td][td]8,50[/td][td]Sébastien Auroux[/td][td]8,73[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]25,28[/td][td]N8W8 Summer 2013[/td][td]Laura Ohrndorf[/td][td]7,68[/td][td]Sébastien Auroux[/td][td]8,77[/td][td]James Molloy[/td][td]8,83[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]25,68[/td][td]Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2011[/td][td]Yu Sajima (佐島優)[/td][td]8,18[/td][td]Taki Sugimoto (杉本太暉)[/td][td]8,19[/td][td]Arifumi Fushimi (伏見有史)[/td][td]9,31[/td][/tr]
[/table]

As of: WCA_export283_20140224

I'll see what I can do about videos in the future - or perhaps someone can secretly film me?

 

[Mollerz]

And to think, I could have easily got a sub8 average as well. Also the hi-five after we both got the 5s was pretty sweet.

 

[Iggy]

Congrats

 

[Evan Liu]

And to think, I could have easily got a sub8 average as well. Also the hi-five after we both got the 5s was pretty sweet.

Agreed, especially since they were only 0.02 off each other.
Hope you can get sub8 soon!

Congrats

Thanks!

 

[TeddyKGB]

Congratulations, we should all celebrate by not going to work today.

 

[aashritspidey]

was hoping for a brest reconstruction

 

[teller]

Ha! Good on you, Evan!

 

[DanpHan]

Wait, what were you doing in the UK?
anyway, good job.

 

[BillyRain]

The scrambles for WGC will all end in a corner skip. I promise x

 

[Evan Liu]

Wait, what were you doing in the UK?
anyway, good job.

I'm studying abroad at Oxford for the spring.

The scrambles for WGC will all end in a corner skip. I promise x

Yes please!

 

[kinch2002]

And to think, I could have easily got a sub8 average as well. Also the hi-five after we both got the 5s was pretty sweet.

And to think, I could have not gotten 0.8 seconds solver in 2.5 years

 

[DuffyEdge]

Also the hi-five after we both got the 5s was pretty sweet.

That was an awesome moment!

 

[zhangcy]

Congratulations，so fast