2x2x2 Race Thread

Round 83 Results

Race to Sub-2.5
  1. NSKuber 2.65

Race to Sub-3
  1. ottozing 3.57

Race to Sub-5
  1. DrKorbin 4.15
  2. Thunderbolt 4.79
  3. Skullush 5.38
  4. cubersmith 6.21

Congratulations to DrKorbin, who graduated this round!
 
Round 84 Scrambles
28 April 2012, 7 pm MST (GMT -7)

Average 1
1. R U2 F2 R' F2 U' R2 U' R' F2 U' F
2. R' F' R U' F R U R' U2 R' F U
3. U' F2 R2 U R' U' F2 R F' U' F U2
4. R' U' R2 F' R' U R U2 F' U2 F2 U2
5. F U2 F' U R F2 R U2 F' R2 F R2
6. F' R2 U' R2 U2 R U R2 U R2 F2 U
7. F2 U' F R2 U2 F2 R2 F2 R2 U2 F R
8. F2 R' U2 F2 R2 F2 R2 F R U' R2 F
9. R' U2 F R2 U2 R F R' F' R2 U F'
10. R2 U2 F U' F2 R' F U' F' R2 F R2
11. U' R F2 U2 R U R2 U F' R' F U2
12. U' R' U F U2 F' R2 F' R' U2 R2 F

Average 2
1. F2 R U' R F U' R2 U R' U F R'
2. R2 F' U' F2 R2 F2 R U R' U2 R' U
3. U2 R2 F2 U2 R2 U2 F' U R' U' R' F2
4. R2 F2 R2 F R' F U' R' F2 R U' F
5. F' R' F2 U' R F' U' F U2 R2 U R
6. R' F U' F2 U' R' U F R2 U2 R U2
7. F R' F' R U F R F' U F2 R F
8. R' U2 R F R' F2 U' R' U' F' R2 U
9. R2 F' U' R2 F' U' R' F R2 F' R' U2
10. F2 U F' R2 F2 R2 U2 F2 U' F2 R2 F
11. U2 R U' F2 R F R' U2 F' R F' U
12. U R2 U F R' U' R' F R2 U F R'

Average 3
1. U2 F2 U2 R' U R' F U' F R' U F'
2. U' F U2 R2 F2 R' U' F' R' F2 R2 U2
3. F2 R2 F U2 F' U' F2 R F' U' F' R
4. F2 U2 R' F R F' U F' R' U F2 U2
5. R' F' R F U' R F2 U2 R F' R' U'
6. R2 F U' R' U R2 U' R U F R' U2
7. R2 U2 F2 R' U2 F2 R U2 R' U R U'
8. F' R U R2 F2 R' F' R2 F' R F2 R'
9. U' F U F2 R' U2 F' R' U R' F' R'
10. F' U F R F R F2 R2 F2 U2 F R'
11. R U2 R U R' F2 U' F2 U2 R2 U' F2
12. U' F2 R F' U R2 U' F' R' U' R2 F2

Sorry for starting this round a bit late. It'll still end Saturday night, unless no one competes...

Also, please remember to calculate the mean of your three averages of 12.
 
Round 84
Goal: Sub-5
Mean: 6.51
Average 1: 6.31
10.00, 8.82, 6.84, (0.34), 3.52, (10.49), 6.01, 8.10, 4.04, 6.10, 5.45, 4.19

Average 2: 6.15
(9.05), (2.85), 7.96, 6.25, 3.49, 6.60, 6.79, 7.20, 7.62, 4.87, 6.91, 3.76

Average 3: 7.07
8.12, 6.10, 8.05, 8.15, 6.06, 6.46, 7.71, 5.94, (8.49), (5.74), 6.28, 7.87

I really have to learn CLL.
 
Average 1: 2.69
Best Time: 0.47
Worst Time: DNF
Individual Times:
4.25, (DNF), 2.06, (0.47), 2.19, 2.53, 2.06, 3.80, 1.83, 2.22, 2.78, 3.16

Average 2: 2.52
Best Time: 1.44
Worst Time: 4.09
Individual Times:
2.56, 1.88, (1.44), 2.50, 2.66, 2.33, (4.09), 3.30, 2.93, 2.71, 2.03, 2.28

Average 3: 2.53
Best Time: 1.80
Worst Time: 3.59
Individual Times:
2.50, 2.38, 2.06, 2.69, 2.86, 2.11, 3.19, (1.80), 2.19, (3.59), 2.78, 2.50

Mean of 3 averages: 2.58
 
Round 84
Avg 1 = 21.05
34.21, 25.05, 20.10, (3.65), 24.40, 22.13, 18.55, 23.14, 13.25, (DNF), 11.74, 17.96
Avg 2 = 20.85
(DNF), (14.65), 25.04, 49.33, 15.83, 14.86, 17.17, 16.94, 18.92, 17.04, 14.74, 18.66
Avg 3 = 22.09
21.04, 19.66, 37.46, (16.55), 18.44, 21.28, 17.00, 18.44, 17.25, (DNF), 21.20, 29.12

Mean = 21.33

My first attempt. Still looking for my first sub-20 ao12. I know Ortega, but I am not good at recognizing my cases.
 
12.91, 9.15, 12.53, (0.36), 9.49,11.70, 9.67, (14.57), 6.83, 8.92,7.38, 12.85 = 10.14

9.31, 7.47, 8.35,(17.33), 10.12, 5.88, 11.05, 10.02,7.19, 9.51, 13.42, (3.64) = 9.23

8.79, 8.33,11.96, (5.14), 9.33, 7.87, 9.31, 9.57,DNF(6.88), 20.35, 8.66, 9.68 = 10.39

Average of 3 = 9.92
 
Iggy said:
Ortega. I'm not so good at it though.
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People have got sub-6 averages with Ortega; I think some have even got sub-5. If you're not colour neutural, then I recommend switching to colour neutrality. It's much easier switching to colour neutrality with Ortega than with other methods (like CLL).
 
Round 84

Race to sub-4

Average-1: 4.35
6.17, 4.56, 4.32, 0.49, 2.92, 6.88, 4.16, 5.03, 2.48, 4.48, 3.46, 5.87

Average-2: 4.17
3.54, 2.00, 2.54, 5.78, 3.42, 3.28, 6.00, 6.32, 2.67, 3.92, 6.43+, 4.18

Average-3: 4.70
4.21, 4.90, 5.64, 3.74, 5.93, 4.00, 4.26, 3.94, 6.35, 5.35, 4.36, 4.38

Mean: 4.41
 
Round 84
Goal: Sub-5
Mean of Averages: 4.88
Average of 12: 4.97
1. 5.08
2. 4.82
3. 4.20
4. (0.40[WTF WAS THAT HAHAHA])
5. 5.54
6. 4.19
7. 5.27
8. (5.99)
9. 5.36
10. 4.92
11. 4.85

Average of 12: 4.62
1. 4.70
2. (2.96)
3. 4.81
4. 4.49
5. 5.45
6. 4.68
7. 3.90
8. 5.09
9. 4.70
10. 4.60
11. (6.99)
12. 3.73

Average of 12: 5.05
1. 4.58
2. 4.74
3. 5.69
4. 4.36
5. 4.75
6. 5.90
7. 5.17
8. 5.40
9. (6.26)
10. (3.80)
11. 4.66
 
havent practiced in a week :(

racing to sub 3

6.47 2.52 3.25 3.02 4.10 4.17 12.10 3.66 0.47 5.56 4.90 4.57 = 4.22 (lamesauce)

4.40 4.22 2.25 2.36 3.10 3.50 3.17 3.32 3.99 4.47 1.57 3.69 = 3.40 (my mojo has returned)

4.49 4.83 4.97 3.42 4.30 3.86 3.57 3.84 4.06 3.343.37 7.47 = 4.07 (-__________________________________________________________________________-)

average of averages = 3.90
 
I've been working fairly hard at 2x2x2 lately, so I guess I'll give this a try. I'm so slow and easily confused with my fingers, I think I'm really going to have trouble making fast progress, so to give myself a fighting chance, I guess I'll go for:

Racing to sub-6

7.73, 7.52, 5.89, (1.51), 6.04, 6.17, 5.21, (8.64), 7.76, 4.27, 6.77, 6.88 = 6.42
7.90, (3.06), 7.11, 6.84, 6.68, 9.07, 6.03, 6.52, (17.26), 7.33, 7.93, 6.39 = 7.18
6.69, 8.03, 6.63, (8.12), 7.87, 7.59, 6.09, 6.57, 6.41, 6.40, (5.39), 6.41 = 6.87

Mean: 6.82

That first average may be my best average 10/12 ever. As you can see by my fourth solve, I'm really pathetically slow. I did see the entire solve perfectly during inspection, yet it took me 1.51 seconds to solve it. Sad.

Considering my best average ever in competition is 6.68, and that was extremely lucky, I'm really pretty happy with this overall average! I must be improving.

By the way, I use mostly Guimond, relying on Ortega when I don't see any good Guimond options. I'd say I go Ortega less than one out of every five solves. I know almost no CLL.
 
@ Mike

Do you have any video's of you doing 2x2? How far do you look ahead?

When I do an Ortega solve I look ahead so I know what OLL I will be getting. Usually I am done with the first side and OLL in .75-1.5 depending on how long the solution is. You might want to try training your PBL to be sub 1.
 
emolover said:
Do you have any video's of you doing 2x2?
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I was thinking I should probably make a video; I was also thinking how embarrassing it will look seeing how much I fumble with it - it's often not pretty.

emolover said:
How far do you look ahead?
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If I can skip step 0 of Guimond, I almost always solve 2-look, but it has to be a pretty easy case for me to be able to solve one-look (which is why I still never try to do 2x2x2 BLD that way). If I decide to resort to Ortega, I usually do so in the last 5 seconds or so of inspection, so I often don't know what OLL I'm going to get. (If I went with Ortega from the start, I'd probably know the OLL over half the time, but usually when I switch to Ortega I'm already pretty rushed on inspection.)

My PBLs are atrocious. I used T perms until recently for that case, but now I'm trying to switch back to A perms. I think David Woner swears by J perms, but I'm terrible at them. For upper layer diagonal, I'm probably close to 4 seconds - it's a disaster whenever I get one. As I was typing this, I just decided to go learn a better PBL for that; I think I'll probably cut that case in half now. :) In general, PBLs are probably where I need the most work.

Edit: I just tried PBL averages 10/12 for all 5 PBLs (I don't know bars in back at all - I always rotate to front), and I got: 2.55, 2.86 (the new one I just now learned), 2.70, 1.12, 1.77. Yes, it takes me 1.12 seconds on average to do the 3-move PBL. :(
 
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Mike Hughey said:
Edit: I just tried PBL averages 10/12 for all 5 PBLs (I don't know bars in back at all - I always rotate to front), and I got: 2.55, 2.86 (the new one I just now learned), 2.70, 1.12, 1.77. Yes, it takes me 1.12 seconds on average to do the 3-move PBL. :(
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I use these PBL's if you want to know.

() Represents moves executed at the same time.
[] A rapid series of moves.

BackFace: [R2 U' R2' (U' y)] [U' R2 U' R2'] Average: .8-.95
Bar on Top(Facing towards you): [R U' R] F2 [R' U R'] Average: .7-.9
Bar on Bottom(Left side): [R2 U' R2' U' R2 U R2' U' R2 U' R2'] Average: .9 *Note**All Us and U's are done with my left index*
Double Diagonals: [R2' F2 R2] Average: >.4
Adjacent Top Corners: [R U2 R' U' R U2 L'] [U R' U' L] Average: .65-.75
Adjacent Bottom Corners: None, I make sure this doesn't happen by taking notice of my bottom side and do an OLL the produces a different permutation.
Diagonal Top Corners: [R U' R' U'] F2 [U' R U R' D R2] Average: 1-1.2
Diagonal Bottom Corners: Same as Adjacent Bottom Corners. When I use to not do this I would just add a F2 R2 at the end.

My favorite are BackFace and J because I love wristing my algorithms.

I hope this helps you Mike to get at least a little bit faster. If you would like me to make a video of me doing the alg's I wouldn't mind.
 
Round 84 Results

Race to Sub-2.5
  1. NSKuber 2.58

Race to Sub-3
  1. ottozing 3.90

Race to Sub-4
  1. DrKorbin 4.41

Race to Sub-5
  1. Skullush 4.88
  2. Iggy 6.51

Race to Sub-6
  1. Mike Hughey 6.82

Race to Sub-20
  1. Reprobate 21.33
 
Round 85 Scrambles
Tentative Closing Date: 05 May 2012, 7 pm MST

Average 1
1. U2 R' U R U R' U R' F' U F R
2. F U' F2 U' F2 R' U' R U2 R F R2
3. R' U F' R U' R2 U R' U2 F' U' F
4. R2 U2 R2 F R' U R U R U' F' R'
5. U R' F2 U2 R2 F2 U' F2 U' F2 R U'
6. U R F U2 F' U F' R F R F R
7. F R F R F U F U2 R2 F' R' U2
8. F' U' R U2 R U F' R' U2 F' R' U'
9. R2 F R U R F2 R F2 U F' R' U'
10. R2 U F' R U' R U R2 F2 U2 F' U2
11. R U2 R F U2 R' U2 R2 U2 R U R2
12. U' R F R' F2 R' U2 F2 U2 F2 U F

Average 2
1. F' R F2 U' F U2 F2 R F R F' R'
2. U2 F2 R U' F2 R F2 U2 F' U2 F R2
3. F2 R F2 U' R2 U R2 F' U' F' R2 F'
4. R U F' U F' R2 U' F2 U R2 U' R2
5. F' R' F U' R2 F2 R F2 R2 F' R2 U'
6. U' F' R' F2 U' R U2 R' U R F R2
7. R2 F R' F2 R2 F' R U2 R2 U2 F2 U
8. U2 F' U R2 U F R F' U' R2 F U'
9. F2 R2 U F R' U2 R' F2 R2 U' F R2
10. F R' U2 R2 U2 R U' R' U R' U' R
11. R2 F2 U' R2 U2 R2 U2 F R2 U F R2
12. U' R' U' R' F2 U R' U2 R2 F' R2 F2

Average 3
1. R' F' R U2 R' U R2 U' F U2 F' R'
2. R U F' U R' F2 R2 U2 R2 F' U' R
3. F' U2 R' U2 R' F2 R2 U F R2 U F
4. F2 U F R F' U2 F' U R2 F2 R F
5. U R2 U R U R' U' R F' R U' F
6. R' U' R U2 R' F2 R U' R2 F2 R' U'
7. R F2 U' R2 F' R2 F2 R U' R' U2 R2
8. R U' R2 F2 R F2 R' F2 U' R2 U2 F2
9. U R2 U2 R U2 R2 F R2 U F' R2 U
10. U2 R' F' R2 U2 F2 U' R' F U' R2 U2
11. R' F R' F U2 R U R2 F U' F2 U'
12. R F' U2 R F' R2 U' F2 U2 R' U F'
 
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