a few accomplishments from San Diego Open:
-BLD success
-sub-27 OH avg. [I've never done it during practice]
-sub-17 avg.
-1:04.78 4x4x4 solve [PLL skip], but still would have been sub-1:10 [or at least my record]
-PLACING in an event [actually two, but the 5x5x5 was ridiculous, I didn't deserve 2nd]
-and sub-5 nonlucky 2x2x2 solve

things I wasn't able to pull off:
-sub-3 5x5x5 [idk why?! haha I averaged 2:33 at Discovery]
-sub-4 BLD [ehh... w/e]
-sub-7 2x2x2 average
-and sub-15 3x3x3 solve
 
first sub-15 ave ever. can someone please say 'welcome to the club'? :D

Average: 14.63 seconds
Individual Times: 14.02, 13.95, 12.89, 14.24, (18.91), (12.08), 15.33, 18.64, 13.83, 15.91, 14.89, 12.59

part of an average of 100, which turned out to be 16.22, that isn't too shabby i guess considering the horrible start i had.
 
Nice average FU, if the second 18 would have been a 16 the average would get down to like 14.4

My acclomplishments, school successfully done (just need one oral exam where 1 of 15 points is enough)
learnt some OLLs the last week, got from 15 to 34, I don't know if I will learn the dot cases or improve edgecontrol on the last pair. we will see
 
Just broke my pb twice within 3 attempts. First it was a 21.56 then it was a 19.44 (PLL skip)

I've been doing slow solves working on my look ahead for the past day or two and it dropped my average by about 2.5s so far.

Average: 27.79 seconds
Individual Times: 21.56, 30.64, (19.44), 33.19, (36.95, ugh), 21.55, 30.44, 24.58, 27.89, 27.47, 31.64, 28.91
 
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I finally got sub-60 seconds, my average is still around 1:10, but I'll soon be under a minute every time, and btw, I love this place.
 
I should have posted this before, but I wasn't thinking at the time.

I got a single solve of 15.53 that was part of my 19.77 average. Not a PB solve or average, but the solve was non lucky, and there was nothing really nice about it either. I just got an amazingly smooth solve, lol.
 
B' U2 L2 F2 B2 R' L' F' L R F D L2 D R' D2 B U' B2 R L' U D R' U'

FMCing it up, prescramble with a "D":

D R' D' L' R D R' D2 R D <--- ;)
y2z d R U2 R' U R U R' U' R' U' R2' <--- :(

22 move psuedo F2L... time to get the edges and insert the corners... I'll take care of that later. I should look for a better F2L finish as well.

Hrm this is nicer: y' R2 U R' U2 R U' R U2 R' U' R2, but the LL now sucks.

40 moves no insertions... yet.
 
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I got my first sub-20 averrage on the Sunday Contest!:

Times: 17.88, 20.77, 21.05, 21.91, 20.34, 17.47, 19.26, (17.43), 20.14, (22.21), 19.57, 21.38

Avg: 19.98
 
I finally did some solving after a week of very little solving and almost a week of no solving.
I did loads of very very slow 2H solving in order to work on lookahead practicing seeing the first pair in inspection. And did 12 OH solves- 23.01 average or 20.4x average of 5. Not bad for no warm-up OH's. I think I'll do 12 solves a day for awhile to see how my hand holds up.
 
9.13 non lucky
On KConny's scramble R B2 L' D' R2 F D2 L D' B' D2 B R2 F' U2 B2 U2 F L' D2 F R F2 D' R'
I knew it was going to be easy.

8.86 second try.
 
16.21 seconds average of 10/12. It's not my best, but it was really nice :] I had a nice 12.2 nonlucky.

I felt like I hit a wall, then I starting trying some new things, mainly nakaji-style turns. act NOW, think later, haha

9.13 non lucky
On KConny's scramble R B2 L' D' R2 F D2 L D' B' D2 B R2 F' U2 B2 U2 F L' D2 F R F2 D' R'
I knew it was going to be easy.

8.86 second try.

wow that scramble is ridiculous, I got 8.81 :]
 
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WTF

avg= 14.04

Statistics for 05-31-2008 13:31:59

Cubes Solved: 12
Number of Pops: 0
Average: 14.04
Standard Deviation: 1.77
Best Time: 9.42
Worst Time: 16.94
Individual Times:
1. 14.02 L2 D2 L R U L2 D' U F D2 L' R2 B' F L' F' D U' B F D' U2 F R F2
2. 14.07 U L2 D2 R' B' D B D2 B2 F D2 L2 B' F R F D2 U L R' F' R' D2 U' F'
3. 14.99 L' R2 B2 R' B F' D U F' L D2 U F2 L' B' L' D2 L' R' B' U F D' U2 L2
4. 14.72 L2 U2 R2 D2 L' R F' D L' U' L' R F L2 R' D' L' B2 F L' R F2 U2 B R
5. 13.65 U' R2 F' R2 D2 L' U' B' F2 D U2 B R' D F2 U' R D2 U B' F D L2 D' U'
6. 14.74 D F2 U2 L R2 D B' F2 L2 D U' F' L B2 F D2 U2 F2 L2 B' F2 D U' B L'
7. 14.81 B D2 U2 R' F2 R2 B' L' D U2 B2 F2 U' R B2 F2 U' B2 F2 D F2 U2 L D2 B
8. 14.22 B2 D L' U2 F L2 R' B R' B2 D U2 B F2 D U2 B F2 L2 R' B' U2 B' F2 L
9. 14.35 R' U B F D' F2 R' D' L' R2 D U R' B F' D U' B' U L2 U' L R2 D' F2
10. 16.94 L' R' B D2 U F' L' R U2 B' F2 D B2 F' R' D U B R' B D U B' R2 D
11. 9.42 R2 F2 R2 B' F' L' R' B2 D U2 B F2 U' B2 F' R2 F2 D2 U B L R B2 D F2
12. 12.59 L D F U B D U' L' B' U2 R2 D B F2 U' L' F2 U' B' F' L' R B' D2 B
 
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