Cornell Spring Competition Results

[Tim Reynolds]

If any FMCers are interested, here's the FMC scramble:
R2 U' R' F' R2 B D2 F2 R2 D F' R' F' R2 L D2 R2 U2 (well, this is an optimal version, not exactly the one we had, but the same position)
I'll post my solution later if people are interested.

 

[fanwuq]

That's amazing a 31 move solve!

 

[ExoCorsair]

Hm, 45 moves for an X-cross Fridrich solve... Would've come in second.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Here's my solution (highlight to see)

Do B' before the scramble and notice that U2 gives a nice 2x2x1 block. This can be made into a 3x2x1 block by doing D R' B, then extended to a 3x2x2 with R' F' R'. So we have 3x2x2 with U2 D R' B R' F' R'.

Now notice D' L' or D' L2 gives a F2L minus 1 pair, but off by a setup move of L' or L2. So we look at doing setup move L' B', then finishing F2L:
D' L2 L D2 L' D L' F L F' (a bit better than a normal insert)
then OLL/PLL is R' B' R L' D' L D R' B R/R F' R B2 R' F R B2 R2 D
giving a total solution U2 D R' B R' F' R' D' L' D2 L' D L' F L F' R' B' R L' D' L D R' B R2 F' R B2 R' F R B2 R2 D L' B' = 37 moves (not great finish really, but the other one works better anyway)

The setup move L2 B' now. Start with D' L', and do L' D' L to pair up the CE pair. Then do some VHF2L: B' U' F L' F' U B So now we have a sune, B' D' B D' B' D2 B, and an R perm, B' D2 B D2 B' L B D B' D' B' L' B2. The sune/R combination has some great cancellations, so our last layer is B' D' B D B' L B D B' D' B' L' B2. Then even more cancellations, so when we write out our whole solution:
U2 D R' B R' F' R' D' L2 D' L B' U' F L' F' U D' B D B' L B D B' D' B' L' B2 L2 B' [31]

Were it not for that crazy sune + R perm cancellation, it wouldn't have been that great. I'd like to see what a more experienced FMC-er can do with that F2L minus 1 pair in 9 moves (plus 2 setups)

 

[philkt731]

My solution for the FMC: 28 moves!
Scramble: R2 U' R' F' R2 B D2 F2 R2 D F' R' F' R2 L D2 R2 U2
Solution: L B R D R D' R' B' R D2 R' D2 R2 D2 R' D2 B' D B R' B' R' D F' R2 D2 U' F' (28)
Explanation:
Inverse Scramble: U2 R2 D2 L' R2 F R F D' R2 F2 D2 B' R2 F R U R2
Pseudo F2L minus 1 slot (premove R2 L') : F U D2 R2 F D' R B R (9)
last slot + OLL: B' D' B D2 R D2 (6)
PLL + undo premove: R2 D2 R D2 R' B R D R' D' R' B' L' (13)
The last slot, oll, pll, and undoing of the premoves went very smoothly together after that nice 9 move pseudo 3x cross

This took 45 minutes, I really hope I can do an FMC at a competition soon

 

[pjk]

Pat, about a month ago, my times dropped down to like a 1:05 average. I got a 1:03 avg12, and now anything above 1:10 is like a horrible time. I think it was the fact that I switched back to an old rubik's. If you didn't know, both the 1:04 and 1:05 were +2s... so if one of them didn't have the penalty, I would've had the NaR.

Dang. Your times dropped by like 10 seconds by switching to a new cube? Amazing avg by the way. You could take the NaR soon...

 

[masterofthebass]

Pat, another thing I've noticed is that my 4x4 times drop when my 5x5 times do. Also, for some reason, my times on bigcubes don't really go down gradually. They usually drop 5-10 seconds almost instantly. On 5x5, I went to a 1:55 avg to a sub 1:50 average in a day. I'm really not sure how I do it, but hopefully it'll keep happening

 

[guusrs]

Nice scramble with many possibilities. After 40 minutes or so I found:

L' D R' B U2 F' U2 F L' F U F' L2 U' L' U L2 F2 U2 F' U' F U' F' U' R2 (26)

explanation:
pseudo 2x2x2: L' D R' B (4)
pseudo F2L minus pair: U2 F' U2 F L' F (10)
last pair: U F' L2 U' L' U L2 F (18)
Last layer: F U2 F' U' F U' F' U' (26-1)
Correction: R2 (26)

greetz

Gus

 

[dbeyer]

Both Rutgers competitions actually haha