Cubing FML

[Rocky0701]

Just about everyone has had a Last Layer skip at least once.

Not me

They're know to happen at the worst possible moment.

That's why I time 95% of the time, because I really don't want to have one when I'm not timing. It's kind've like when people wear their seatbelt almost all the time, but they wreck without one.

 

[DeeDubb]

The fact that it was untimed. I could have gotten a great new PB. And now that chance is gone.

You would have gotten a new PB that would have been maybe around high 20's low 30s at best. Then, if you kept practicing, you would crush that PB within a month or two... I got a very lucky 17 second PB when I was averaging about 30 seconds. It took a while to break, but eventually I did, and that lucky solve is now pretty meaningless.

 

[NoobCubeTube]

You would have gotten a new PB that would have been maybe around high 20's low 30s at best. Then, if you kept practicing, you would crush that PB within a month or two... I got a very lucky 17 second PB when I was averaging about 30 seconds. It took a while to break, but eventually I did, and that lucky solve is now pretty meaningless.

True. Thank you for lifting my spirits back up again.

 

[Rocky0701]

You would have gotten a new PB that would have been maybe around high 20's low 30s at best. Then, if you kept practicing, you would crush that PB within a month or two... I got a very lucky 17 second PB when I was averaging about 30 seconds. It took a while to break, but eventually I did, and that lucky solve is now pretty meaningless.

Yeah. Back when I was averaging like 35 seconds, I didn't really care about my PBs because I'd just break them again the next day.

 

[maps600]

I was about to get my first sub 2 on Megaminx but I did the J perm instead of the other 3 cycle. I didn't notice, so when I went to permute the rest of the corners I ended up messing up the cube. The time was a 2:15 after I fixed the cube by reversing what I had done

 

[TDM]

What I am asking is if anyone else got the last layer skip when they weren't timing or doing a slow solve, etc.

I got a few when I was timing myself, but they were all terrible times considering I'd skipped a third of the solve. Two were +2s, and the other was done with almost no warm up. They've all been in this thread, not the accomplishments thread.

 

[Lazy Einstein]

Sub-20 is harrrrrrrrddddddddd. 8 months of cubing and I am not even close to global sub 20 average. I should probably focus on one puzzle until I get good before practicing all the others.

 

[TDM]

27. 12.99 B2 R2 U' R2 D R2 F2 R2 F2 L2 U B U' L F' D2 R2 D U L' U'

x2 y'
L' F' U' R' B2
L' U L
U2 y R U R'
U y R U2 R' U' R U R' // F2L (20/20)
l U2 L' U' L U' l'
R2 F' R U R U' R' F' R U2 R' U2 R' F2 R2 // LL (22/42)

3.23 TPS, about 2 lower than normal. :fp

 

[TDM]

... should've been sub-7.

173. 10.05+ D F2 U' R2 L2 B2 U' L2 B2 D R2 B' L B D L2 F2 D' F' U2

z2 // Inspection
D L2 D R D // Cross (5/5)
y L' U L // F2L-1 (3/8)
U' L U' L' // F2L-2 (4/12)
U2 R' U R2 U R' // F2L-3+4 (6/18)
U2 R U R' U' R' F R F' // OLLCP (9/27)
U M2 U M' U2 M U M2 // EPLL with ~3 lockups (8/35)
U' // **** (1/36)

 

[TDM]

66. 10.69 L2 D' F2 D B2 D' R2 U F2 D L2 F R D' U' B' L U' R' U2 R

4 second Z perm...

 

[TheNextFeliks]

66. 10.69 L2 D' F2 D B2 D' R2 U F2 D L2 F R D' U' B' L U' R' U2 R

4 second Z perm...

Whoa. I got the same solution. Or at least a z-perm also. Did you have a dot-OLL?

 

[TDM]

Whoa. I got the same solution. Or at least a z-perm also. Did you have a dot-OLL?

I don't think so, and I also remember having no AUF before and U2 after, so I think this must have been what I did:

x2
R D R' D2 R U2 R
y' L' U L
R U' R' U' y R' U R
d R' U2 R U R' U' R
U F' U' F U' R U R'
U2 F' L' U' L U L' U' L U F
M2 U' M2 U' M' U2 M2 U2 M' U2

E: 23. 13.68 L2 U B2 U2 R2 L2 B2 D' F2 U' B2 L F D L U2 B2 L2 D2 B R' U'

I spent about 2 seconds after cross looking for a pair and not finding one, then another noticing I'd accidentally done an X-cross, then another two seconds looking for a pair again. I literally did nothing for at least five seconds.

 

[ZamHalen]

Today, I was on fire, faster than I've ever been on 3x3 and was well on my way to my first sub 14 average of 12 ever. I was on my 8th solve, thinking to myself that I wouldn't need to replace my broken aurora and that this old ZhanChi might be perfect, with oll done at 9 seconds I start executing an r-perm, one of my fastest plls, when all of the sudden the cube just explodes in my hands. Needless to say my sub 14 attempt was still in full swing but then every little problem that could happen with a cube happened. Over shooting, lock ups, near popping through each of the last 4 solves. Simply put I can't haz sub 14 FMCL

In unrelated news burning plastic smells funny.

 

[goodatthis]

I don't know if this is a cubing FML or not, but I got at least 7-8 PLL skips casually solving at Nats. One was during 5x5, when I was competing, another was during teamBLD, and then a bunch more just messing around untimed. And I barely did any solves that day either! (I will admit that 2 were EPLL skips, but still)

Oh, also, yesterday, I was doing F2L-only solves, and for some reason went ahead and did OLL on a particular solve (Fururf) for some reason, then stopped the timer. Realized it was a PLL skip, with AUF. The time? 10.6x. Crap. I think it's still my PB though, even with the plus two. I'm not going to count it because I wasn't expecting the skip and I basically stopped the timer immediately.

 

[TDM]

http://i.imgur.com/8cf3cnR.png

8 places off making the second round.... and I should've sub-2ed the first scramble; sub-2.5 at the very least. I tried to do this, locked up, did a wrong turn (and probably a rotation by accident too) and ended up with no two adjacent colours on the entire cube.

E: seriously why am I so bad in comp

rotationless F2L, WV from the front, should've been sub-10.
failed Ga perm (my least favourite PLL; I got three in the average) and got 11.36.

 

[Please Dont Ask]

Great ...
There is an upcomming competetion
but i have examination going on

 

[guysensei1]

Great ...
There is an upcomming competetion
but i have examination going on

If you manage your time well, you could still go. (whether or not your parents allow it is another story)

 

[Please Dont Ask]

If you manage your time well, you could still go. (whether or not your parents allow it is another story)

The thing is that i have to write 3 exams on that day
2 olympiads and 1 school exam

 

[goodatthis]

I wanted to go to MIT FMC this past May, but a I had the SATs the same day. Yeah, I chose the SATs, since I'm not driving 2 hours to Cambridge to spend another couple hours writing stuff. Plus I felt like I was going to pass out on the car ride home, SATs are really tiring man.

Besides, your exams are more important and you'll likely be a little nervous from both the upcoming comp and the exam, so I would just recommend just focusing on the exam.

 

[TDM]

13.36 Ao100.