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[acrystal]

Day 1 OF Twist 'n Turn Hyd Open 2026
This is a pretty interesting day for me, so here's how it went:

5x5: I have a single now (2:22.30), which is good now. But I reckon it will be a long time will we have a comp with big cubes (hopefully I'm proven wrong, but not yet, I'm too slow).

Megaminx: Broke my PR single by 52 seconds (2:28.89). I don't know about megaminx for now, it just feels like a dull event to me.

4x4: I broke single PR by 43 seconds (1:13.09). And I have a PR average now, which is nice (1:23.49). I thought the cutoff is 1:15 and not 1:30 lol.
[ 1:30.46, 1:26.72, (1:13.09), (1:33.95), 1:13.40 ]

OH: Grr OH sucks. I got a 46.68 single, and the cutoff was 45, I had a lot of potential. Well, better luck next time.

Clock: I didn't have high expectations for clock, but it was good. 21.92 single, 23.08 average.
[ 24.15, 23.07, (21.92), (DNF), 22.01 ]

For now, I will practice with the next events. See you tomorrow, guys!

 

[K3n]

You almost passed Megaminx cutoff! One day you'll get the average.
Meanwhile my country has 1:30 for megaminx cutoff which is almost impossible to pass...

 

[acrystal]

You almost passed Megaminx cutoff! One day you'll get the average.

I wouldn't say "almost". 28 seconds is a lot of work
And I forgot to mention, this is my PB

Meanwhile my country has 1:30 for megaminx cutoff which is almost impossible to pass...

Oof, that's rough. What's your global in mega?

 

[K3n]

Oof, that's rough. What's your global in mega?

At my prime it's 1:35 but I think I dropped to 1:40 now

 

[acrystal]

Day 2 of Twist 'n Turn Hyd Open 2026
Today was actually awesome! Here is how it went:

3x3: I got double PRs. 17.50 single and 19.73 average, which is interest cuz my global is 21!
[ (17.50), 18.93, 21.58, 18.68, (24.16) ]

2x2: Once again, amazing double PRs. 4.19 single and 4.98 average, which are pretty impressive to me!
[ (4.88+2=6.88), (4.19), 5.03, 5.56, 4.34 ]

Pyra: This went well! I got PRs of 5.89 single and 6.42 average, which brought me to the finals!!
[ 6.57, 6.26, (9.29), 6.42, (5.89) ]
But I fumbled the finals with a 7.74 average (PR3), but fluked with a 3.86 PR single (I will send recon probably).
[ 7.96, (3.86), 7.74, (8.60), 7.53 ]

Skewb: First round went a little bad, I got PRs of 6.65 single and 9.31 average, which somehow got me to the finals being 16th (only 16 in the finals).
[ (6.65), 9.53, 9.78, 8.63, (11.21) ]
But I fluked in finals with 7.59 average!!
[ 7.17, 8.02, (8.54), (7.09), 7.58 ]

So far, I got 18 PRs! Overall, very good performance for me : ). But maybe I'll rest out of cubing for now.

 

[acrystal]

RESULTS ARE OUT!!!
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After:



So yeah, I'm still a pyra-main. But looking at the skewb rankings, there is potential. So, I will be a sprint-minx main!