Weekly competition 2008-14

4x4x4: 2:53.96, 3:01.84, (2:44.14), (POP), (POP) = Is this DNF?
Comment: Toke a big break from 4x4...

2x2x2
(11.02), 13.63, (POP), 18.16, 18.50 = 16.73
In case your wondering how my cube poped, a corner cap fell off.

3x3x3
(42.57), 29.24, (28.26), 29.12, 30.90 = 30.02
Hmm... The first solve was horrible. Then the rest was good. This is my best average of 5

Magic
(1.69), 1.45, (1.40), 1.63, 1.57 = 1.55
Fairly average

3x3 (30.38), 26.81, 22.22, (21.56), 24.80 = 24.61
Sub 25 =)
5x5: 3:31.15, (3:27.91), (3:42.96), 3:42.56, 3:30.83 = 3:34.84
Average

Jason Baum

3x3x3: 10.96 (9.65) 10.36 (11.50) 10.91 = 10.74
I just had the most ridiculous average of my life so I figured it would be a good time to try this.

tim said:

5x5x5 bld
DNF (24:19, off by 3-cycle T-centers)

wow, warming up your memo is so important. i had to think about every fourth location...

multi bld
19/22, 1:28h (54 min memo), (16 points)

I spent a few minutes on fixing a memo mistake, that's the reason for my bad execution time.
mistakes:
picked up one cube with the wrong orientation (scrambled centers)
2 cubes were off by a 3-cycle each (execution mistakes...)

btw. i need a larger desk!

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Tim........ your friggin AMAZING!!!

Chris Hardwick:
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3x3x3: 15.22 16.05 (13.60) 15.17 (18.02) = 15.48
2x2x2_bld: 30.05 DNF 21.15
3x3x3_bld: DNF 1:35.11 1:37.36
4x4x4_bld: DNF 7:00.16 DNF
5x5x5_bld: DNF DNF DNF

I did some of these solves while racing/training with Daniel Beyer over yahoo messenger. The last 2 5x5's were both only off by 2 mis-oriented centrals. In one case I memo'd incorrectly, and in the other I simply forgot to flip them. This wasn't my week for big cubes. Training now for D.C. next month.

Chris

3x3x3
38.61, 39.30, (41.76), 38.93, (37.84)
Average: 38.95s (nice... better than my 12 run average pb)

forgot to post my relay times.

2,3,4: 1:33.00
2,3,4,5: 3:25.56

for the 2345, 5x5 was 1:50ish, and 4x4 was 1:10. Stupid 2x2 takes almost as long as the 3x3.

--EDIT--
Decided to do BLD since I want a better official.

3x3 BLD: DNF, 1:44.93, 1:53.00 = 1:44.93

First the girls’ times so far:
Marie Hughey:
Magic: 3.55, 4.71, 3.18, 3.84, 3.40 = 3.60
Master Magic: 8.02, 7.09, 8.36, 7.19, 8.28 = 7.83

Rebecca Hughey:
Magic: 2.90, 2.52, 2.84, 2.46, DNF = 2.75
Comment: Just like at Chattahoochee, Rebecca smokes me at Magic. She’s amazing.
Master Magic: 5.11, 7.36, 5.91, DNF, 5.80 = 6.36

I still haven’t done multiBLD yet, but I thought I’d go ahead and post now in case I can’t get new cubes tonight or otherwise don’t find time (I gave away a few on our trip, so I need some more). So here goes everything else:

Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 13.47 (+2), 10.75, 11.94, 15.55, 9.40 = 12.05
3x3x3: 30.81, 33.91, 29.38, 28.88, 34.40 = 31.37
4x4x4: 1:50.00 (O), 1:48.28 (P), 1:41.44, 1:47.43 (O), 1:54.66 (O) = 1:48.57
Comment: I practice 5x5x5 but never 4x4x4, but my 4x4x4 seems to improve faster than my 5x5x5. But maybe that’s because I had so much more room for improvement.
5x5x5: 3:30.28, 3:25.02, 3:34.31, 3:08.97, 3:09.19 = 3:21.50
Comment: Back down to earth after my miraculous Chattahoochee result. But I must admit that I feel like these were bad solves, so I think I’ve generally improved.
2x2x2 BLD: 1:11.19, 1:05.61, 52.33 = 52.33
3x3x3 BLD: 2:45.96, 3:31.11, 3:00.31 = 2:45.96
4x4x4 BLD: 13:07.96 (7:11 mem), 14:00.43 (5:24 mem), 14:23.33 (8:15 mem) = 13:07.96
Comment: Wouldn’t you know it? I get them all now. Times were still pretty bad, though. Every one had some problem – the first one had too many edge cycles (the worst I’ve ever seen), the second one I messed up the centers, but I backtracked and fixed them; the third one just took me too long to memorize.
5x5x5 BLD: DNF (23:14.26, 10:30 mem), DNF (26:54.34, 13:56 mem), DNF (29:59.40, 16:15 mem) = DNF
Comment: Bleah. If it weren’t for the relay, I wouldn’t have gotten a single 5x5x5 BLD this week.
3x3x3 MultiBLD: 7/8, 1:17:58.57 (48:32 mem)
Comment: Ugh. The second cube just had 2 corners misoriented. Apparently I memorized the wrong corner to twist for one corner. I MUST figure out a way to speed up; this was perilously close to going over the maximum time under the new rules.
3x3x3 OH: 51.48, 1:08.69, 53.44, 1:01.86, 1:08.75 = 1:01.33
3x3x3 WF: 2:43.77 (+2), 3:18.68, 2:52.44, 2:37.13, 1:40.06 = 2:44.45
Comment: Like Dene, I only practice by doing these solves each week, and like Dene, I’m amazed how much I’m improving. However, unlike Dene, I’m not improving nearly as fast. The scrambles this week seemed a little easy, though, so I’m not sure I believe these are representative times for me. The last one was just plain lucky – the F2L practically fell together.
2-4 Relay: DNF (23:04.97, 12:22 mem)
Comment: Ugh. The 3x3x3 and 4x4x4 were right; the 2x2x2 only had 2 corners misoriented.
2-5 Relay: DNF (1:05:01.26, 34:10 mem)
Comment: Will I ever get this? This was so frustrating - the 2x2x2, 3x3x3, and 5x5x5 were all correct (my only successful 5x5x5 BLD solve this week), but the 4x4x4 was wrong only in that I had corner parity, and when I went to fix it, I did the T perm but then forgot to do the PLL parity algorithm afterwards to fix the edges. So careless.
Magic: 2.80, 2.69, 6.13, 2.94, 3.05 = 2.93
Master Magic: 4.36, 5.47, 4.94, 5.53, 5.86 = 5.31
Clock: Still don’t have one (I’m working on it, though. Joey, I do want yours!)
MegaMinx: 3:30.50, 3:26.11, 3:11.46, 3:07.65, 3:26.21 = 3:21.26
Pyraminx: 16.78, 23.91, 30.61, 14.43, 26.31 = 22.33
Square-1: 1:20.36 (P), 1:55.09 (P), 2:05.66 (P), 57.75, 1:19.28 = 1:31.58
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 33 moves
I think there’s a problem with this week’s scramble; I tried both the original and the optimal scrambles a bunch of times and they seem to come out different. I hope we can use the optimal scramble – it was way nicer for me. Here’s my optimal scramble solution:
R F2 R’ B2 R F2 R’ B2 R F’ D’ L’ D2 L’ D’ F L’ F’ U’ F B U B’ L’ U L U R’ U2 R2 B’ R’ B
x-cross: R . F’ D’ L’ D2 L’ D’ F L’
2nd pair: F’ U’ F
3rd pair: B U B’ L’ U L
4th pair (fortunately solves all but 3 corners): U R’ U2 R2 B’ R’ B
insert at . for corners: F2 R’ B2 R F2 R’ B2 R
Lucky ending, but no luck with cancellations – if I had found something good, this could have been a really nice solve. Anyway, it’s my best ever. It took me about 55 minutes to finish this and check it; I ran out of time before I found a better insertion. I had a 42 move solution after less than 10 minutes, and then I thought to just try an extended cross, which worked well.

Just in case we had to use the original scramble, here’s my solution for that (I figured I needed the practice!) – 40 moves:
2x2x2: B’ R2 U2 R B’ R2
2x2x3: U’ L B’ U
cross + 3rd pair: B’ L’ U’ L2 U L’
4th pair: B D’ B’
OLL: R D B D’ B’ R’ B D
PLL: B D B’ U B2 D’ B U’ R’ L’ B2 R L

Mike Hughey said:

3x3x3 WF: 2:43.77 (+2), 3:18.68, 2:52.44, 2:37.13, 1:40.06 = 2:44.45
Comment: Like Dene, I only practice by doing these solves each week, and like Dene, I’m amazed how much I’m improving. However, unlike Dene, I’m not improving nearly as fast. The scrambles this week seemed a little easy, though, so I’m not sure I believe these are representative times for me. The last one was just plain lucky – the F2L practically fell together.

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Yay! Good to see some more competition! Me and you can be first and second in the world . However, who will be first? . I think you'll find that the F2L will always start to come together well for you. I don't know why, but mine seem to come out sub50 every time now, its crazy!

3x3: 17.74 (13.60) (17.77) 15.05 14.82 ==> Avg: 15.87
Not bad. That 17 killed the avg.
4x4: (1:18.22) 1:21.22 (1:24.10) 1:19.72 1:20.16 ==> Avg: 1:20.37
Man, not practicing for a couple weeks just ruins your times. I dropped almost 10 seconds.

Dene said:

Mike Hughey said:

3x3x3 WF: 2:43.77 (+2), 3:18.68, 2:52.44, 2:37.13, 1:40.06 = 2:44.45
Comment: Like Dene, I only practice by doing these solves each week, and like Dene, I’m amazed how much I’m improving. However, unlike Dene, I’m not improving nearly as fast. The scrambles this week seemed a little easy, though, so I’m not sure I believe these are representative times for me. The last one was just plain lucky – the F2L practically fell together.

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Yay! Good to see some more competition! Me and you can be first and second in the world . However, who will be first? . I think you'll find that the F2L will always start to come together well for you. I don't know why, but mine seem to come out sub50 every time now, its crazy!

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I think it's going to be quite a challenge to beat Anssi! But maybe second and third aren't so impossible. I can't believe that my best time this week would have been 9th in the world, and my average based on the last 3 solves (with feet always uses mean of 3, right?) would have been 2:23.21, which would be 4th in the world! But I just had one good solve, Dene - you had lots.

I still think this was a lucky week. But occasional sub-2 solves no longer look impossible, anyway.

Oh definitely. It just seems to have come to me, I'm sure it'll do the same for you. As for Mr. Vanhala, I hope he's been practising, because sub40 is my aim . I'll be doing my solves in a few hours (I really need to make a start on this essay first) and we'll see how I go!

Rafal Guzewicz

3x3x3 BLD: 57.69 1:06.75 59.06 = 57.69
Nice.
5x5x5 BLD: DNF DNF DNF = DNF
What's wrong with these scrambles? Second one was 13:13 off by two centers.

Wow, nice times Rafal! I hope to meet you and the rest of the polish folks again soon

Thanks Kai! As for meeting, I was considering going to German Open, so I could do some bigcubes bld solves, but now I know that it will have to wait…

5x5x5 bld
#2 20:26.48 (7:30 memo)

YES! i made so many mistakes during execution (jumped over a few locations, messed up the parity algorithm), but i was able to fix all of them.
Finally!

rafal said:

Thanks Kai! As for meeting, I was considering going to German Open, so I could do some bigcubes bld solves, but now I know that it will have to wait…

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Oh, that would have made the competition so awesome. Dennis, Tim, You... !?Me?!

tim said:

5x5x5 bld
#2 20:26.48 (7:30 memo)

YES! i made so many mistakes during execution (jumped over a few locations, messed up the parity algorithm), but i was able to fix all of them.
Finally!

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Great, Tim! Your memo was blindingly fast! Very nice. I'm jealous.

tim said:

5x5x5 bld
#2 20:26.48 (7:30 memo)

YES! i made so many mistakes during execution (jumped over a few locations, messed up the parity algorithm), but i was able to fix all of them.
Finally!

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NO!
NO!
NO!

That's it, I'm doing a 5BLD every day. Be warned, I'm trying syllables for 3x3x3 BLD right now, and I'm not stopping at that.

And your success sounds ike my first 4x4x4 BLD...
Just wondering, how is your exec so slow?
(If I'd want you to be faster, I'd encourage you to improve it, because it's easier to do than memo.)