Yay!
Did a pyraminx average today. I havn't touched the pyraminx for weeks and now I did a record :D


avg10(12)
Average: 7.60
Standard Deviation: 1.59
Best Time: 4.47
Worst Time: 14.77

(it popped on the 14.77)

Pretty good :)

average of 5:

Average: 6.24
Standard Deviation: 0.26
Best Time: 4.47
Worst Time: 9.72

Yay :D
 
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 (10)

Total = 36 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?
 
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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 :P
 
I just received my first ever cube order today! I ordered a rubik's ice cube, :(, and a cheap square-1. I gave in after an hour of trying to solve the square-1, and solved it by finding a couple of algs. It is a very fun puzzle to solve.

The ice cube is actually really cool. My only complaints are that it does not have standard color scheme, and that kills my recognition. And I sometimes accidentally turn what are the blue and the white faces when solved, because they turn very easily, and the other sides not as good.

I am going to play around with my 5x5, then the 2x2 and see how tiny is feels.
 
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 :P

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?
 
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 :P

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?
 
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Statistics for 04-16-2009 00:47:47

Average: 19.25
Standard Deviation: 1.65
Best Time: 15.31
Worst Time: 34.06
Individual Times:
1. 16.44 (-5,6) (0,2) (3,3) (6,0) (3,3) (0,2) (1,0) (-3,3) (-3,3) (4,5) (6,0) (0,3) (-3,3) (6,3) (3,3) (-3,0)
2. (15.31) (4,-1) (0,3) (3,1) (-3,0) (3,0) (6,2) (-3,2) (-5,2) (1,4) (6,0) (4,4) (-4,4) (0,3) (0,2) (6,2) (0,2)
3. (34.06) (3,-4) (-5,-3) (-3,3) (6,0) (-2,3) (0,4) (6,2) (-5,0) (0,4) (0,5) (-5,1) (3,5) (6,3) (0,3) (3,2) (0,4)
4. 19.91 (-5,-1) (0,-3) (5,0) (0,3) (0,4) (6,5) (6,0) (4,2) (-3,2) (1,4) (-4,0) (2,0) (-2,0) (4,0) (-1,0) (0,5) (0,4) (-2,0)
5. 18.59 (0,-4) (0,4) (-3,0) (-2,3) (-4,0) (6,4) (-4,0) (-2,4) (0,2) (-2,0) (2,3) (6,0) (0,4) (6,4) (-4,2) (0,4) (6,2)
6. 20.38 (0,6) (0,-3) (4,5) (4,0) (6,0) (2,3) (-5,0) (6,3) (0,5) (0,4) (2,2) (0,4) (4,1) (0,1) (0,3) (-2,0) (0,2) (-2,0)
7. 22.14 (0,6) (0,6) (-3,3) (-2,0) (6,5) (0,5) (-5,0) (6,5) (-5,3) (0,3) (0,4) (0,2) (-5,3) (-4,5) (-5,0) (0,5) (6,4)
8. 19.70 (1,-4) (0,3) (2,3) (1,4) (6,2) (0,2) (0,4) (-2,0) (4,0) (-4,0) (0,3) (2,0) (0,3) (0,4) (6,0) (-3,4) (0,4) (6,0)
9. 19.94 (-3,5) (0,4) (6,3) (0,4) (6,0) (6,2) (6,4) (6,0) (3,4) (0,2) (-4,4) (2,0) (6,4) (1,0) (6,0) (0,3) (6,0)
10. 20.28 (0,-4) (-5,0) (0,3) (0,3) (-3,0) (0,4) (5,4) (0,4) (0,4) (0,4) (0,4) (-5,0) (0,4) (6,0) (0,1) (2,0) (0,3) (2,2) (0,1)
11. 18.48 (6,3) (0,-3) (0,5) (1,4) (5,5) (6,4) (0,3) (3,4) (-2,2) (-2,2) (0,1) (-3,0) (0,5) (0,4) (2,4) (6,2)
12. 16.67 (3,3) (3,3) (-1,3) (0,1) (-5,5) (-1,0) (5,0) (0,1) (0,1) (1,5) (-5,0) (0,2) (5,2) (-3,0) (-5,0) (6,0) (3,0)

INSANE! I am so happy right now. All cases non-lucky too :D my hands were flying!
as shown by:

Adj-Adj: .98
Double-J: .97
J-N: .96

All of those are algs I have been trying to sub-1 forever and never quite managed
 
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