Czech Open 2007

[pjk]

Congrats Arnaud, indeed nicely done Those ratios of first to second are pretty amazing. When do you guys think those WR's that Matyas set will be broken (if ever)?

The word "pop" is so vague... depends on the context it is within.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Congrats Arnaud, indeed nicely done Those ratios of first to second are pretty amazing. When do you guys think those WR's that Matyas set will be broken (if ever)?

Easy question to answer: October 5-7, at the World Championship, by Mátyás, of course.

 

[pjk]

Sorry, let me rephrase:
When do you guys think those WR's that Matyas set will be broken (if ever) by another person other than Matyas?

 

[ExoCorsair]

Maybe the 3x3 BLD by Rowe Hessler... Maybe big cube BLD by Chris Hardwick?

Regarding big cube BLD, Worlds will be a great competition to observe that event!

 

[pjk]

Jon, are you going to Worlds?

 

[ExoCorsair]

I might, I don't know yet... :S

 

[KJiptner]

The 3x3 BLD WR will be broken by me of course, didn't you see how close I was to Matyi?

 

[AvGalen]

Thanks again everyone for the kind words about my multiple blind. I actually "promised" Mátyás that I would break his 7/7 record in Lyon by doing 8/8 . I just found out that there is no multiple blind in Lyon though. Maybe we could organise one anyone during lunch? It would be so great to have the world record on multiple blind by doing 8/8 without having a single blindfolded time in competition

But lets switch to the thing that is still eating me up: Fewest Moves!

Scramble: F' R2 D U F2 R2 D2 L R D R2 F D2 U R2 F L2 R F' U2 L' R' F R D U2 F2 L' F' D2 U' R2 B2 R2 F U' F D2 U F L D2 U' L2 B' (45 moves)

I found a great beginning of building a 2x2x3 block in 8 moves:
x' y2 B' L B' U' R' B' L2 F2
And than I continued with finishing the cross and another pair in 4 more moves:
x' y2 U2 F U F

That means that in 12 moves F2L is done except for 1 pair! (pretty good for a keyhole solver right )

After this beginning I couldn't find anything interesting to finish, so I needed 47 moves in total to finish with a 3 look last layer which is just ridiculously bad

Can anyone find a very good solution that uses this first 8/12 moves?

 

[gillesvdp]

And if someone is interested in seeing the worst FM solution ever done in a competition, here it is:

Opposite crosses + middle layer orientation:
R' F' D' F L D2 L' D' F' D F

Corner orientation :
F' L' B L F L' B' L
R D2 R2 D' R2 D' R2 D2 R

2x2:
R2 F2 U2 R2 U2 F2 U F2 U' F2
R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' F' U' D

Edges:
F2 L R' D2 L' R
D2 B2 D2 B2 D2 B2
R2 B2 F2 R2 B2 F2 L2 U2 D2 L2 U2 D2

Total: 75 moves

 

[Erik]

Matyi is not going to break his own WR's in a next competition I think, and to be honest: what's the use? He will train for other events to set WR's in probably.

My fewest moves solution was very childishly easy btw:
U2LUD2L2 2x2x2 block.
F'R'F' make 2 edges + another pair.
U2R'UR2U2B'R'B solve 2 pairs.
y' U'RU2R'U RUR'U'RU'R' last pair plus easy OLL skip.
y' M2uM2D'M'S2M, shortest HTM Z perm I know. (edit: I just found out 12 HTM is the shortest Z possible )
40 moves.

Too bad Arnaud didn't find anything else after his crazy 8 move 2x3x3 block and then 12 move F2L - a pair. Joel had quite a nice solution, but....

 

[Mátyás Kuti(shaipo)]

Joel had quite a nice solution, but....

...but lucky.

 

[Erik]

'slightly'

 

[gillesvdp]

Full results (including magic) can be found here: http://czechopen.net/results/results_en.php?id_turnaje=33

 

[AvGalen]

Too bad Arnaud didn't find anything else after his crazy 8 move 2x3x3 block and then 12 move F2L - a pair.

I might be good, but a 2x3x3 block (full F2L) in 8 moves is to much for me I think you mean a 2x2x3 block

 

[joey]

'slightly'

Do you know his continuation? I would be interested to look.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Matyi is not going to break his own WR's in a next competition I think, and to be honest: what's the use? He will train for other events to set WR's in probably.

I still think he'll at least break a couple of them. His 3x3x3 BLD world record is really about his average, based on his performance in the online competition here. (Amazing to think that's his average!) And he actually got a 5:10 in one of the online competitions on the 4x4x4 BLD, so there's a lot of room for possible improvement there, even if he doesn't practice. His scramble on the 4x4x4 world record was probably an unlucky scramble. (Can you imagine?)

And there's the matter of him being on his home turf - surely home field advantage is worth something?

 

[Erik]

Hmm well, it wasn't really a hard scramble

 

[pjk]

Well, lets ask him.... hey Matyas, will you break your BLD WR's again at Worlds?

My guess is yes, he will shatter them, along with many other WR's. It is funny that he holds the WR is every BLD event.... quite amazing.

 

[gillesvdp]

and now he is turning to OH cubing ;-(

 

[Mátyás Kuti(shaipo)]

Gilles!
Of course. OH is funny, and i have no WRs in this category.