[Official] 15.03 3x3 average + out of nowhere 11.90 single from Lawrence Spring 2015

[JustinTimeCuber]

Just for the record I'm faster than that on average now (I average sub 14 under good conditions) but I still don't get a whole bunch of sub-12 singles all of the time. That solve was REALLY fast for me at the time, and would have beaten my unofficial PB if I had done it 2 days ago, because I beat my PB twice on the way there. (11.99 -> 11.71 -> 11.57). My PB is now 10.12.

That reaction at the end there though...

BTW I know that I posted this like 2 months after the comp. I was thinking about it for a while, but I haven't gotten around to it until tonight.

 

[guysensei1]

Nice!

 

[pdilla]

Palms on timer at start?

Also, good solves!

 

[Berd]

That reaction haha! GJ!

 

[JustinTimeCuber]

Palms on timer at start?

Also, good solves!

Yeah, some of those solves do look questionable, but I think so many people do that, that enforcing it super strictly would just get everyone +2s for most of their solves. Obviously you would give the penalty if they were practically using their wrists, but that is the kind of regulation that enforcing strictly would really bug everyone. Recently though I've been doing that less.

Those were pretty good for me at the time, because I averaged around 17.2. I do tend to do well at competitions in general though. I'm looking forward to August 8th, there is a competition (in planning) that will be sort of near me and, with almost 2 months to practice and given that I do end up doing well in competitions, I might get a sub-12 average which would be really awesome. Thinking back to 3 years ago, with my first timed solve around 7 minutes, I didn't know how fast I was ever going to get. Even at my first comp 9 months later, I averaged sub-30 and thought that was really good for me, and now I am half of that time. I knew full PLL and partial OLL back then, and I can easily get sub-18 with that now, if not sub-17.
The funny part, of course, was the reaction.

The judge in the fourth solve was my friend btw. He "made" me get my worst solve.