Accomplishment Thread

[Escher]

Umm... what?

F2L average of 12

Average: 8.31
Standard Deviation: 0.95
Best Time: 6.13
Worst Time: 10.37
Individual Times:
1. 7.72 U' L2 R B' R U' B' L R F2 R D B' F' L R D U R' B F' D U' R F2
2. (6.13) L' F2 L' R2 B2 F L' D' U' B2 R D U2 L R F L R F' R' B' D' B' F' L2
3. (10.37) L2 R' B L2 B F L R U B2 D2 F2 D' U2 L' B' R' U' R' D F' L' B L' B2
4. 9.98 D2 B2 F R2 F' L R' B' F2 D2 U B' F' L2 B' F2 D' L R2 B F2 U' L2 B2 F2
5. 7.92 B U B2 L D2 B F' R D' U2 L R F D' R2 B' F2 L D' B' L2 U' B2 L R
6. 6.85 D2 B2 D' U2 R2 B' D B L R B2 F2 D B' D L B2 U B2 D L2 R2 B2 D R2
7. 8.18 F' D2 U' R2 U R2 F L' D U' B L2 B D2 U B D2 R D B2 L D2 B' L' B
8. 7.83 L' B R2 B2 F2 D2 U R2 D B' F' U' L R F2 L' B' U' L2 D2 U R2 F2 L2 F
9. 7.74 D' U2 L2 R D2 U2 L2 D F' L' R F' U' B' F' R2 F R' D2 U' L R U' B L'
10. 10.00 B F' R2 B2 F' R' D U' L' R U2 R D L R2 B2 F' L' R U R D2 U B2 L
11. 8.20 B2 L' R2 U2 L' R' B' F' D' R U L U2 L B2 F2 L' R2 D2 U' L' B F' U2 L'
12. 8.64 B2 F' D U L' D L B' R' D2 U F' L2 B F L2 D2 U' F' R D2 R' U L' U'

Why is my f2l 8.3 seconds long when I average 14.5 seconds? something must be up - I was sure my LL was faster than that! I'm going to take an avg of 12, and report back!

And for my LL...

Average: 5.62
Standard Deviation: 0.51
Best Time: 4.15
Worst Time: 6.60
Individual Times:
1. 5.35 F2 D U2 F' D U2 B' F' D' F' U L' R' B F2 L' D' U2 L U2 F' U' B R F'
2. 5.82 B F2 L' R' B F D L D2 F' L R' B2 F2 U2 B' R2 D' F D2 F2 R2 U2 B2 L
3. 5.26 B F' L2 D L' B' F' D F R' F' D U2 B F U' L' R U' R' F2 D2 U F2 L2
4. 5.68 D2 F U B' F2 L R F' L2 R B2 F R B' D U L U2 L D L D' U2 L2 R2
5. 5.29 D' U' B' L' D B2 D U2 B R F R' U2 B' D' L2 R F R2 U2 B2 L' F2 U' L
6. (6.60)F2 U' B2 F' L' U' L' B2 D' B' D2 B F2 D' U B2 F R' D2 L F' U L R U2
7. 5.37 F D' U F D2 F' D' L' D' U2 L2 D2 R B2 F' U2 L2 F2 D2 F D U' F' U2 F2
8. 6.38 R' B2 D2 U L R B U2 R' D U' B' F' D2 B' L2 R B D2 U2 L D2 U' L' D2
9. (4.15)B' F2 R2 B2 F D B D B2 F' D2 U B' F' U2 B2 D' U2 R' D' U R F2 L2 R
10. 6.49 D' B2 L' R' B2 L F L R2 B R F' D U' F2 D' L2 R2 B2 D U F' L' U2 L
11. 4.74 L' R B' U B2 U2 B' F R2 B F D' B2 F' L' R' F' D2 L2 R' B' D2 L' F2 U
12. 5.82 R D' L2 R2 D B' F2 L U B2 D U B2 F L R2 F R B D2 L B' F D' F2

For some reason I had always assumed my f2l was much weaker than my LL, and clearly I was wrong! I know what I'm going to be practicing for the next few months!

 

[MTGjumper]

B2 D R2 B2 F' R2 F' U F L2 R2 U F' U2 F' D' U' B' U2 L2 F2 D U' L2 R'

Huh huh. 8.84, PLL skip

 

[leeho]

Average: 15.00
Best Time: 13.38
Worst Time: 17.58
Individual Times:
1. 13.38
2. 15.28
3. 17.58
4. 13.92
5. 15.81

OMGSH! So close to sub 15 TT__TT!!!

 

[dChan]

I attained my second 14 second average of 5 yesterday. This one was not as exciting as my first one, but I am still very happy to have gotten it. I still need to do a 14 second average of 12, though. I've been so lazy to do averages of 12 after warming up.

The times were:

14.14 s, 14.31 s, (17.42 s), (13.86 s), 15.14 s = 14.53 s average

I have noticed that in lots of averages of 5 my fastest single is right next to my slowest single. I guess it must just be a coincidence.

 

[MTGjumper]

4th UK post in a row:

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Average: 12.98
Standard Deviation: 0.58
Individual Times:
1. 13.17 D U' R U B' D2 U R B' R F R2 B F L' R' B2 F U R F U' L2 R B
2. 12.60 B2 F' D B L2 F D U R F' U L' D' U2 R' U B2 F D2 B2 D U2 L2 F2 R2
3. 13.73 L D R' U' B' L' R U2 B U2 L' D' F' R U2 L' R B2 F2 L R B' D2 L R'
4. 12.15 D' U2 L R' D2 L2 R' D R D2 U2 B2 D' U' R B' F' L R2 D U' B2 R2 D' U'
5. (14.16) R2 D' F U' F' D U' F' R' U R2 B2 F' R2 D' B' F R' B F D2 B' R F R2
6. 13.70 L B' F' L R' D2 U R B F2 R2 D U2 R D2 U2 F' L2 B R' D' U2 R B2 F2
7. 13.60 B D' U L' R' U' L2 U2 R2 F2 L' R2 U' L' D2 U' B' D U L U' L R' D2 R'
8. 13.26 D' L' R B' F2 R2 D' L R' D L' R B2 L R' D' U' B' F L' D2 U2 R B2 F2
9. 12.09 U R' B' L2 R2 F2 R U' L2 B F L2 R F' L' R2 D2 B R' D' B F' L2 R B'
10. 12.63 R' B' R U2 B2 D' U' L R U' R2 U2 F' D R' D L2 R2 D2 L2 D B F R B2
11. 12.88 D B' R2 U2 B L R D2 B' R' D U2 B2 F2 L2 B2 F' L' D' U' B' L2 R D2 B'
12. (12.01) D U2 B' F L' R' U' F2 L' U2 R' B2 F2 D' F2 R2 B' F U2 B F D' U' F2 R'

First sub-13 average!

 

[PatrickJameson]

Average: 12.24
Standard Deviation: 0.69
Best Time: 9.71
Worst Time: 14.77
Individual Times:
12.56, 12.13, (14.77), 10.86, 12.00, 11.84, 12.88, 13.28, 12.15, 13.05, (9.71), 11.65

I've been practicing

 

[dChan]

@MTGJumper: Haha, sorry but I accidentally broke the U.K. post record. Nice average, though! You are really good!

 

[MTGjumper]

Didn't notice you broke that chain

Thanks

 

[Siraj A.]

Square-1 average of 5: 37.98
Times: (26.57), 34.75, (49.22), 45.89, 33.31

Woot! I am really inconsistent though.

 

[MTGjumper]

Sq-1:

Cubes Solved: 25/25
Average: 30.80
Standard Deviation: 5.76
32.22, 33.68, 33.30, 24.10, 37.43, 31.34, 34.44, 31.60, 22.02, 27.66, 32.28, 20.61, 28.38, 30.13, 36.50, 37.84, 35.65, (38.40), 27.22, (15.40), 35.14, 26.31, 29.54, 30.39, 38.38

So close to sub-30!

Best average of 12:

Average: 29.53
Standard Deviation: 3.80
33.30, 24.10, (37.43), 31.34, 34.44, 31.60, 22.02, 27.66, 32.28, (20.61), 28.38, 30.13

... and of 5:

Average: 26.02
Standard Deviation: 2.84
22.02, 27.66, (32.28), (20.61), 28.38

Also, got my PB, kinda non-lucky: (3,3) / (0,6) / (6,0) / (-4,4) / (-3,3) / (0,3) / (-4,0) / (-5,4) / (2,0) / (-3,3) / (5,3) / (0,3) / (-2,4) / (-3,2) / (0,3) / (0,3) /

Go on Woney, try it.

 

[PeterV]

FMC Scramble: D2 B2 D' B2 U' F2 R2 U R2 D R F L R2 F' D' L2 B2 U' B

Solution:

2x2x2: L D2 B' D R2 D2 (6)
2X2X1: U B' U2 B' U B (6)
F2L(3): (Z) U' B' U' B (4)
F2L(4): F' U F (3)
OLL: R U2 R' U' R U' R' (7)
PLL: U2 F2 U M U2 M' U F2 (8)

Total = 34 Moves

Done for 2009-15 forum competition, after time expired. Being my first time doing FMC, this is my PB. Can anyone give me tips on what I could do better, or if I'm even going about this the right way? Also, I'm allowed to use M, S & E turns in FMC, correct?

M, S and E turns are 2 moves. Also you mixed up M and M' in the solve, the PLL should be U2 F2 U M' U2 M U F2

Good though! I wish I was this good at FMC

I think I just got lucky on this one. Good catch on the M moves, I'll have to correct that. So is an M2 = 4 moves in FMC?

No, M2 is just 2 moves still. Basically an M move equates to R L' x'(2 moves), so M2 would just be R2 L2 x2 which is still 2 moves.

Also, if you had inserted your last pair as U' F' U2 F it would force an OLL skip and give you Z perm, which is 12 moves. With AUF that would give you a 20 move f2l with a 13 move LL, as opposed to a 19 move F2l with a 17 move LL.

It's still a very nice first solution. I hope you keep at it, the feeling you get with a sub-25 solve is just indescribable.

Edit: Just saw this:

19.50 avg of 12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's awesome Hadley! What were the times, and what makes you think it was a fluke?

Thanks for the good advise. Hopefully my solution wasn't a total fluke. I'll have to read up on insertions/cancellations/pre-moves and hopefully I can start getting better at this.

P.S. Congrats to Hadley. Sub-20, awesome!

 

[mcciff2112]

14.85 single (pll skip)

22.75 average.

 

[DavidWoner]

cubeshape, I did this the day before my 19.25 and forgot to post it.

All cases were at least 3 twists.

Statistics for 04-16-2009 19:47:22

Average: 3.40
Standard Deviation: 1.23
Best Time: 1.58
Worst Time: 6.84
Individual Times:
1. 1.62 (4,-4) (0,-3) (-3,4) (-4,3) (3,3) (6,3) (3,0) (0,3) (0,3) (5,0) (-5,0) (0,3) (6,3) (6,0) (0,3) (-3,3) (4,0)
2. 5.09 (0,0) (-3,3) (0,3) (3,3) (6,0) (-3,3) (0,3) (3,4) (6,5) (5,0) (-4,1) (5,0) (6,5) (2,0) (-2,2) (0,1) (4,0)
3. 4.79 (0,-4) (0,4) (3,0) (0,2) (0,1) (-1,2) (6,1) (0,2) (6,3) (-4,2) (-2,4) (0,2) (0,2) (-2,2) (6,0) (6,2) (0,4)
4. (6.84) (0,6) (3,3) (0,4) (-1,0) (1,0) (1,2) (2,2) (-2,4) (0,2) (2,2) (-4,2) (0,5) (-3,2) (2,0) (1,0) (0,3) (3,0)
5. 4.33 (0,-1) (3,-5) (3,0) (6,0) (-2,5) (6,4) (3,2) (4,4) (-4,2) (0,3) (6,1) (0,5) (-3,5) (0,1) (6,2) (6,0)
6. 2.66 (3,6) (3,3) (3,3) (6,3) (6,0) (4,3) (-4,0) (-3,0) (3,3) (3,3) (0,3) (6,0) (0,5) (-2,4) (-4,0) (-3,0)
7. (1.58) (0,3) (0,-3) (6,0) (0,1) (-4,2) (-3,4) (6,4) (0,3) (-1,4) (6,2) (2,5) (-3,0) (0,4) (-3,2) (6,3) (0,5)
8. 4.48 (0,6) (0,3) (6,3) (5,1) (3,2) (6,4) (-4,0) (3,4) (0,2) (-5,0) (2,0) (2,2) (6,4) (4,0) (2,2) (4,4)
9. 3.83 (3,2) (0,-2) (6,0) (6,3) (0,3) (-3,1) (-2,0) (-1,4) (0,1) (-5,0) (6,5) (-4,5) (6,0) (-4,0) (2,0) (-4,0) (4,5)
10. 1.91 (0,2) (-5,-5) (3,5) (-3,0) (0,3) (0,3) (3,0) (3,0) (0,3) (6,3) (-3,0) (0,3) (0,3) (0,3) (0,3) (6,1) (5,5) (0,1)
11. 1.89 (0,2) (-5,0) (6,3) (-3,3) (-3,0) (3,3) (0,4) (0,2) (-3,2) (0,1) (3,3) (-3,2) (-2,3) (0,3) (0,3) (0,3) (5,0)
12. 3.41 (6,-3) (-3,-3) (4,5) (0,2) (-1,2) (6,5) (6,5) (6,4) (2,0) (3,2) (0,2) (4,3) (3,5) (0,3) (-2,0)

 

[byu]

Can you tell me your method for cubeshape? I'm really bad at it. I make it into a shape that has all edges paired up on the U layer and then do an alg. How do you do it?

 

[qqwref]

There way all the fast people do cubeshape is to just know how to solve each one in as few moves as possible (or relatively few moves). Rather than memorization I think most people do this by just playing around with the shapes and watching what happens (and thus how to solve them).

The method I use, which is quite a bit slower but a lot easier to learn, is to just put 6 of the corners on D, and then apply one of 5 algs (which are all 3-5 moves). This is more efficient than pairing up the edges, but it's also slightly more to learn.

 

[byu]

Where did you learn it? I might try to do that.

 

[byu]

B2 D R2 B2 F' R2 F' U F L2 R2 U F' U2 F' D' U' B' U2 L2 F2 D U' L2 R'

Huh huh. 8.84, PLL skip

10.97 with Sune OLL and V-Perm. Much too easy of a scramble.

EDIT: Sorry for the double post, just realized that.

 

[Faz]

Average: 3.63
Standard Deviation: 0.71
Best Time: 1.62
Worst Time: 4.62
Individual Times:
3.41, (1.62), 4.05, 2.89, 1.98, 3.88, 4.42, 3.53, 4.16, (4.62), 4.39, 3.55

 

[Zarxrax]

I just got a new PB of 29.45 seconds which completely blew me away! I am currently averaging around 55 seconds, and my previous PB was 43 seconds. I got a full LL skip!

This tells me that maybe my last layer is kinda slow though. I guess its time to learn full PLL.

 

[qqwref]

Where did you learn it? I might try to do that.

It's on Jaap's page, under "Method 1: Gathering Corners".