Recent content by cmhardw

Yay, Mats! Congrats on your records! I always love seeing your big blind results, especially!

I mean it was 1998 when I learned, so not a lot of other options available 😆

I’m torn between Dr. Strange and The Flash. I think obviously Flash would have the raw speed and be the top. But, Dr. Strange using Time Stone shenanigans would beat even Flash in my mind.

There was at least one spectacular pop at US Nats 2008 where an edge piece rolled under the raised stage. I thought it might have been Ryan Patricio, but maybe Stefan also got one at that comp or another comp? And yes, Stefan I think Mike and I would agree that we are speaking from fondness and...

I also remember Stefan Pochmann as coming in 3rd place, but Stefan do you remember and can confirm? I don’t remember who won first, maybe Bob Burton?

I learned from Mark Jeays’ guide

Stefan! It makes me happy that I was able to still rope you in on a surprise challenge! I’m happy to see all the OG cubers from the early days of this forum in this thread! I do have one thing I have to brag about now that Stefan Pochmann has posted, and that is that I am very proud of my 2nd...

Like qwr I also think the center of the cube group is fascinating. The following are also interesting: The number of unsolved positions on a 3x3x3 is a prime number The number of unsolved positions on an 8x8x8 is a prime number The number of unsolved positions on an 11x11x11 is a prime number...

Welcome!

My first timed solve was 5 minutes. I feel like 5:19 might have been the full time, but it was so long ago that I’m only confident that it was definitely sub-6 minutes. I had learned a solution online and was using the algorithm sheet when I got stuck. I wanted to do a solve without help so...

This has happened to me a handful of times in the last week as well.

Inspection is not illegal, my intention was a standard speed solve (including inspection). The surprise was just that you had to do that as soon as you could after reading it. If anyone interpreted it as no inspection I would consider that a harder version of the challenge and worth a call out...

Thanks for participating, everyone! I hope this was a fun distraction from your typical day-to-day. For those who I haven’t properly met yet, I don’t do these surprise challenges too often. However, any thread I post does always have a very slim chance to be another one of these surprise...

That’s a good use for them! I’m still in awe at your 10/10 Sq1 MLD. I feel like 7 is still a very respectable number. I have 3, one vintage 1980s one, one “old” one from the 2000s and one newer one from like 2022 or so.

Surely, Mike Hughey is top ten on this list!