Accomplishment Thread

[Speedy McFastfast]

My eyes are tripping out from staring at all the little moving squares of color...

Haha, that also happened to me after my first average of 12 .

Yep, that happened to me during my first (and only) 4x4 average

 

[Kenneth]

I just solved my "I.Q.Ball/Equator" in 3 minutes 9,14 seconds

Image from TwistyPuzzle.com

Mine is a bit diffrent, the blue side also has got numbers, just like the red.

Previous best was at 4:40 and all the rest I have done 5+ minutes.

I'm using a poor mans solution = pure intuition, pice by pice, for the first two faces I place all tiles directly into position, then I sort out the last face (you only need to solve three faces because opposite pices moves the same) and orients it using a commutator (S2' M2' E3 M2' E3' M4 S2 cycles Uf Ul Ub and orients Uf- and Ul+). Then permutation follows (M E M' E' makes a 3-cycle in the F face) and if it is a parity I have to swap all the pices of two faces to solve it.

In my record solve there was no parity, the rest seemd pretty normal (I'm new to speedsolving this, maybe it was easy, hard to say really =)

I don't know about any UWR's for this puzzle but it is hard to beleve many besides me even tried speeding this one

It is a wery nice puzzle, well built and easy to twist after some lube but I guess hard to find (mine is store bought more than 10 years ago, then it has mostly collected dust until now).

 

[bvleb96]

First sub 50sec

 

[Lofty]

18.84 My first sub 20 OH with Petrus I still average around 30-35 tho... I skipped step 3 only then did 5+6 at once finished with an easy 7.
Edit:
Nvm about not being sub 30.
Statistics for 03-30-2008 02:03:32

Average: 29.62
Standard Deviation: 3.86
Best Time: 22.40
Worst Time: 40.90
Individual Times:
1. (22.40) D' U' L2 B D2 U2 L R' B U F2 U' L' R2 B' F2 L R' B' D2 U' F2 D' F D2
2. 37.23 D2 R2 D U' F D F L R B F D2 U' B L D' L' R B F2 R' D2 U2 F2 D'
3. 34.67 R2 B U2 B2 F D R' D U2 B' D2 B' L2 R2 F' R B2 F' L2 B2 F R U' B F
4. 26.66 L2 R' B2 F L R2 D' U' L2 R2 D U B F' L2 U2 B' F2 L U' R2 B2 U2 L2 D'
5. (40.90) R U2 F2 R B2 F2 D' L R U' F U2 B F2 U' F' U2 F' D' U R' F' U B2 F'
6. 26.82 B2 D2 F2 U2 R' B2 L2 R' B R' B2 D2 L D2 L' R2 B' L' R' B' F D' L R' D
7. 26.00 D' U' F2 D2 U B' D U B2 D2 U' B' F U2 L B U2 R U' B' F' L' F' L' D'
8. 28.37 D' F D2 B2 F' D2 B2 F' R' D' L R2 B2 U' R' B L' F2 D L2 U' B2 F D2 U'
9. 25.92 L' R B F2 U L R D L' R2 U' B L2 R2 U B' F' L D U2 B U2 L2 B2 F2
10. 28.43 F' D' U2 F D' R' U2 L' B' F' D' U' R2 F2 L2 R' D B' F' D U' L F R B
11. 30.81 R D' F L R D' F R' D B2 R B' F R D2 L' B D U2 R2 U L2 U' F R
12. 31.25 F L2 R2 F2 U2 L' D2 L' D U F D2 U F R B2 F R2 D2 U2 B2 D U' F' D2

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Ugh I suck at PLL attacks. My best is like 54.

Then again I suck at everything. Oh yeah, BLD success rate is going up while times are consistently at 1:35avg.

 

[Dene]

26.30 non-lucky OH

 

[MiloD]

I skipped step 3 only then did 5+6 at once finished with an easy 7.

Step 7 is always easy if you do COLL

Nice average, I think petrus method has a lot of potential on OH and big cubes.

I just got:
42.38 OH

and:
5:31.27 2-5 relay. I don't see me getting sub-5 anytime soon.

 

[adzicents]

55.06 OLL Lucky. First sub-60 sec solve!

 

[dChan]

Well, I forced myself, last week, from Saturday to Tuesday to remember that last 38 OLL algorithms I didn't know and am now back to my regular average of 24 seconds which will hopefully drop below 20 seconds soon as I get more used to using those new algorithms. I had four sub-20 solves yesterday and in the past week I broke my personal best record by milliseconds(it was 16.xx). Yay for full Fridrich!

I now average 44.04 seconds one-handed after about a week of being stuck averaging 45 seconds, lol. I have been getting tons of sub-40 OH times (e.g. for every 2-3 average times I get 1 sub-40) with a fastest time of 35.xx seconds.

I promised myself that I'd be averaging in the 40s OH soon and now I finally did it so I'm happy but I still want to go lower.

 

[Lofty]

I finally stopped being lazy and drove to Walmart for CRC
thats an accomplishment in itself but the real ones will follow.

 

[Siraj A.]

New 3x3x3 OH average of 12:

59.94!!

First sub-minute OH average!

 

[stlcards08]

OMG! I just cleaned all the dust out of my cube for the first time, and the first solve was my FIRST SUB MINUTE SOLVE! I was so excited. I'm still doing lbl method. When I was orienting the last few corners I was watching the timer and saw I was under a minute still so I hurried the last one up and barely got it with 00:59.53! WOOT (haha, I hate that word)

 

[ExoCorsair]

Sub-1:40 5x5x5 solve. Easy, bordering lucky.

 

[n00bcubix]

{14.41, 14.10, 16.71, 14.09, 15.79, 17.52, 13.19, (19.14), 14.56, 17.01, (13.13), 13.35}
> 15.07 average
(And yes, this is with MGLS. Of course. )

This is a good weekend.

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w00t garron!

anyway i got a 16.88 avg like 2 weeks ago and also 2 sub 10 solves

 

[Kenneth]

Just got 3.73 single on Snake. I can feel there is more to come becase this was far from perfect.

 

[alexc]

1:33.93 4x4 single. What makes a 4x4 solve lucky? Luck completed around 3 dedges for me, but no skips on centers or 3x3.

 

[MiloD]

22.58 3x3 avg of 10

It was unbelievably consistent...all times between 21.59 and 23.61.

 

[TobiasDaneels]

Woohoo, I just broke my personal record for 3x3 average.
Individual Times: 15.19, 14.80, 14.55, (12.59), 15.98, 14.56, (17.00), 13.64, 13.14, 16.45, 12.95, 14.80: 14.61 seconds.

There was one lucky solve, a pll-skip. It was the 13.14 solve.

 

[ExoCorsair]

Got a bunch of sub-16 (and sub-15, and sub-14) solves in school today.

 

[Dene]

Woo!

Average: 19.09 seconds
Individual Times: 20.52, 21.08, 17.78, 18.15, 17.19, 21.06, (16.75), 19.28, 16.75, (24.88), 18.75, 20.38