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[Help Thread] FMC Discussion

https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/PSKubing2016/results/all#e333fm_f

Getting a 24 wasn't good enough to get on the podium :p
Also no DNFs.

This is totally correct, indeed it is the best results not on the podium:

Here are only results listed for competitions with best of 1 or best of 2, no results with a mean (see second spoiler for results with mean)
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1 24 Linus Fresz PSKubing2016
2 26 Fritz Löhr HessenOpen2016
2 26 Alexander Botz HessenOpen2016
4 27 Vincent Sheu WC2013
4 27 Jan Bentlage FrankfurtCubeDays2015
4 27 Alexander Botz FrankfurtCubeDays2015
7 28 Robert Yau WelcomeThayCambridge2015
7 28 Carsten Matheus N8W8Summer2016
7 28 Linus Fresz GermanOpen2016
10 29 Sam Boyles USNationals2010
10 29 Jan Bentlage GermanNationals2015
10 29 Andreas Pohl GermanNationals2015
10 29 Linus Fresz BWOpen2013
10 29 Emanuel Rheinert GermanOpen2015
10 29 Jan Bentlage ErfurtOpen2015
16 30 Manuel Guse GermanNationals2013
16 30 Moritz Karl GermanNationals2013
16 30 Chester Lian USNationals2012
16 30 Tim Reynolds WC2011
16 30 Tommaso Raposio ItalianChampionship2016
16 30 Justin Harder USNationals2012
16 30 Edoardo Disarò ItalianChampionship2016
23 31 Jan Bentlage ZonhovenOpen2014
23 31 Laura Ohrndorf GermanOpen2014
23 31 Linus Fresz GermanNationals2014
23 31 Ivan Torgashov MPEIOpen2014
23 31 Yu Nakajima (???) USNationals2011
23 31 Tomoaki Okayama (????) SaarlandOpen2012
23 31 Yuuki Kobayashi (????) Tachikawa3x3Fest2014
23 31 Moritz Karl FranconiaOpen2015
23 31 Lucas Garron Euro2010
23 31 Dennis Loose GermanOpen2013
23 31 Marcin Jakubowski PolishNationals2013
23 31 Jan Bentlage ZonhovenOpen2013
23 31 Jan Bentlage FrankfurtCubeDays2016
23 31 Clément Gallet MontpellierOpen2010
23 31 Lorenzo Vigani Poli MontpellierOpen2011
23 31 Erik Akkersdijk ZonhovenOpen2013
23 31 Matthew Sheerin MacclesfieldOpen2016
40 32 Martin Zahradník CzechOpen2013
40 32 Jan Bentlage MunichOpen2014
40 32 Taku Yanai (???) HokurikuEveOpen2013
40 32 Yu Nakajima (???) TachikawaFest2013
40 32 Grzegorz ?uczyna JuraOpen2012
40 32 Shuto Ueno (????) WasedaBrainChallenge2015
40 32 Akihiro Ishida (????) KantoOpen2014
40 32 Erik Johnson USNationals2009
40 32 Jakub Kipa WarsawCubeMasters2015
40 32 Wojciech Knott WarsawCubeMasters2015
40 32 Cornelius Dieckmann FranconiaWinter2015
40 32 Joël van Noort CzechOpen2010
40 32 Frank Severinsen CzechOpen2010
40 32 Olivier Polspoel LyonOpen2011
40 32 Jakub Cabaj LyonOpen2011
40 32 Clément Gallet LyonOpen2011
40 32 Sébastien Auroux BerlinSummerCubeDays2016
40 32 Piotr Tokarski IIMasovianOpenPlock2016
40 32 Bence Barát CzechOpen2010
40 32 Andrii Kompaniiets (?????? ??????????) CowboysSummer2015
40 32 Péter Pozsgai HungarianOpen2012
40 32 Krzysztof Kuncki IIMasovianOpenPlock2016
62 33 Mitsuki Gunji (????) JapanOpen2012
62 33 Jan Bentlage DutchOpen2011
62 33 Shotaro Makisumi (?????) BeneluxOpen2010
62 33 Jens Diewald BeneluxOpen2010
62 33 François Courtès GermanOpen2012
62 33 Manuel Guse GermanOpen2012
62 33 Erik Akkersdijk ZuneOpen2012
62 33 Jakub Cabaj PolishNationals2012
62 33 Sébastien Auroux BelgianOpen2010
62 33 Andrew Ricci HarvardFall2012
62 33 Rowe Hessler HarvardFall2012
62 33 Moritz Karl MunichOpen2012
62 33 Anton Rostovikov MPEIOpen2012
62 33 Moritz Karl FrankfurtOpen2012
62 33 Antoine Perdereau PuydeDomeOpen2012
62 33 Tim Reynolds AachenSummer2012
62 33 Ralph Eikelenberg N8W8Summer2012
62 33 Daniel Sheppard DanishOpen2011
62 33 Arnaud van Galen N8W8Summer2013
62 33 Barnabás Turi HungarianNationals2015
62 33 Piotr Kózka CzechOpen2011
62 33 Evan Brown Indiana2014
62 33 Micha? Pleskowicz PolishOpen2013
62 33 Laura Ohrndorf HessenOpen2014
62 33 Ryan DeLine Mishawaka3x3Day2016
62 33 Pablo Aguilar Dominguez MadridOpen2013
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A lot of German competitions in this ranking :p

[td]SingleMeanNameCompetiton
1 24 2767 Marcel Peters WC2015
2 26 2800 Jan Bentlage GermanNationals2016
2 23 2800 Marcel Peters SebraOpen2016
2 22 2800 Kit Clement Indiana2016
5 26 2833 Jan Bentlage FMCEurope2016
6 26 2900 Wojciech Szatanowski BONDOpen2016
6 28 2900 Walker Welch USNationals2016
6 28 2900 Tomoaki Okayama (????) CubeCampKanazawa2013
9 28 2933 Linus Fresz Cubelonia2016
10 28 2967 Mats Valk USNationals2014
10 27 2967 Yunke Zhang (???) AsianChampionship2016
10 25 2967 Micha? Pleskowicz PolishChampionship2015
10 27 2967 Mats Valk AsianChampionship2016
14 30 3000 Ziheng Ma (???) CrossstraitFMC2016
14 28 3000 Andreas Pohl SebraOpen2015
14 28 3000 Qijun Miao (???) FMCAsia2015
17 28 3033 Jeremy Fleischman PleaseBeQuiet2015
17 30 3033 Rami Sbahi Michigan2015
17 26 3033 Mat?j Grohmann CzechOpen2015
20 27 3067 Rami Sbahi FMCUSA2014
20 29 3067 Lucas Wesche SebraOpen2014
20 27 3067 Ryan DeLine KeepPortlandQuiet2016
20 28 3067 Piotr Kuchta Euro2014
20 26 3067 Tim Reynolds USNationals2015
20 28 3067 Brandon Harnish FMCUSA2016
20 27 3067 Raymond Goslow FMCUSA2015
27 28 3133 Rami Sbahi Michigan2016
28 31 3167 Zijia Feng (???) CubeofOddNumbers2016
29 29 3200 Minato Imai (???) CubeCampinKanazawa2016
29 29 3200 Xingye Zhu (???) ChinaChampionship2015
31 29 3267 Riley Woo MentalBreakdown2016
31 29 3267 Andreas Pohl BerlinOpen2013
31 29 3267 Julian David Michigan2015
31 28 3267 Ping-Yueh Huang (???) CrossstraitCubing2016
35 32 3300 Maarten Smit EatSleepCubeRepeat2014
35 32 3300 Joshua Feran BlindandWhatnot2016
35 24 3300 Andreas Pohl ZonhovenOpen2015
38 26 3333 Zijian Chen (???) CrossstraitFMC2014
38 25 3333 Cale Schoon AnotherFMC2015
38 31 3333 Balázs Bernát HungarianOpen2015
38 31 3333 Feihong Zhang (???) CrossstraitFMC2016
38 29 3333 Nikita Loyko BSTUOpen2015
43 31 3367 Piotr Kuchta PolishOpen2015
43 32 3367 Timothy Sun FantasticManhattan2016
43 30 3367 Hideki Niina (????) CubeCampinKanazawa2015
43 30 3367 Bence János Csuti BratislavaOpen2015
43 33 3367 Clément Gallet DolmenOpen2012
48 29 3400 Marcin Stachura GdanskRubiksCubeDay2015
48 33 3400 Liudi Sun (???) XianNewYear2016
50 32 3433 Andrew Nathenson MentalBreakdown2016
50 34 3433 Zhenyu Zhang (???) HefeiOpen2015
50 29 3433 Artem Melikian (????? ???????) CowboysFMCParty2016
50 34 3433 Hideki Niina (????) CubeCampinKanazawa2014
50 32 3433 Laura Ohrndorf TubingenOpen2016
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This is totally true what you are saying, Reto :) And quite tricky to realize a method to avoid this. Actually there are 2 more competitions where this happened:

Euro2016
FMCEurope2015
MoratallaOpenRubik2014

This is only for means, for singles there are ~100 competitions with > 3 people in the top3 for a round (well.. more than one person in third place). To be honest I am a bit too lazy to implement this into my script, so I hope this information is enough for you :)
 
second time I've used this kind of cancellation to go from 28 to 25

German comp spoilers
R' U' F D U' B2 D L2 U' R2 B' L D' R D2 B2 D' B' U2 F D2 U2 R' U' F

(U2 F' L') // 1x2x3
D2 F' U L' U2 // 2x2x3
D' R B' D' B F D F' // F2L
(D2 B2 U' B D' B' U B2 D' B' D2 B) // ZBLL

D2 F' U L' U2 D' R [B' D' B F D F' B' D2 B] D B2 U' B D B' U B2 D2 L F U2
replace moves in brackets with B' D B F D' F'

Solution: D2 F' U L' U2 D' R B' D B F D' F' D B2 U' B D B' U B2 D2 L F U2
 
second time I've used this kind of cancellation to go from 28 to 25

German comp spoilers
R' U' F D U' B2 D L2 U' R2 B' L D' R D2 B2 D' B' U2 F D2 U2 R' U' F

(U2 F' L') // 1x2x3
D2 F' U L' U2 // 2x2x3
D' R B' D' B F D F' // F2L
(D2 B2 U' B D' B' U B2 D' B' D2 B) // ZBLL

D2 F' U L' U2 D' R [B' D' B F D F' B' D2 B] D B2 U' B D B' U B2 D2 L F U2
replace moves in brackets with B' D B F D' F'

Solution: D2 F' U L' U2 D' R B' D B F D' F' D B2 U' B D B' U B2 D2 L F U2
How on earth do you find that kind of thing...?
 
My soloution for weekly FMC:
scramble:F R' D' F' U' B F2 L B2 D F' U R2 D L' R B R B L
On inverse scramble

R F2//Pseudo 2x2x2
B2 R' B' D' B' D2//Square
B' R' B R' D' U R' U'//Psuedo F2L-1
R' F2 U F U'//F2l-1+EO
R2 U' R U R' U' R2 U R2//Finish

Final solution: R2 U' R2 U R U' R' U R2 U F' U' F2 R U R U' D R B' R B D2 B D B R B2 F2 R'
30 HTM
 
this solution was kind of crazy, from the /r/cubers weekly competition

R' U' F U' F2 D R2 U2 B2 D2 R F' R2 B2 R D F' R2 B2 U F R' U' F
U' R' // square + 2 pairs
D' R D L2 U2 // 3c6e

lolskeleton: U' R' D' ^ R D L2 @ U2
@ = L D U' % F2 U D' L
^ = [E', R U R']
% = [D' L2 D, R2]

Solution: U' R' U' B U B' D' U R U' D L' U' L2 D R2 D' L2 D R2 F2 U D' L U2

25 moves

7 moves to just 3 comms lol

within a few minutes I found 17 to good L6C which resulted in a 28, then I tried this and wrote down the solution with less than a minute left. I used so many stickers for this...
 
My solutions from PoliMi Open 2016.

Scramble: R' U' F D' R2 B2 U B2 F2 R2 F2 D2 L' F' U' R' B' R2 D F' R B2 R' U2 R' U' F
Solution: R2 D B' D' B D R F2 R' B' R F2 R' D' B2 D2 L B2 L' F' L B2 L' U' R2 L' B D2

On inverse
D2 B' L //EO (3/3)
R2 U * F D2 //2x2x2 + 2 squares (4/7)
B2 D + B D' B' D B D' R2 //All but 5 corners (9/16)

* = L B2 L' F L B2 L' F'
+ = R F2 R' B R F2 R' B'

Great start, but poor continuation and bad insertions.
Scramble: R' U' F U2 F2 D' F2 U' R2 B2 D' B2 F' R U B' D2 L2 U B L2 F2 U R' U' F
Solution: B2 R2 L B F' D B' D' F D' L' F L F2 L' F' L F L U' F R U' B D

NISS solve
B2 R2 //Square and 2 pairs (2/2)
(D' B' U R') //Expand to 3x2x1, more pairs (4/6)
L B D B' D2 //2x2x2 (5/11)
(F' U) //Another square (2/13)
L F L F2 L' F' L F L //All but 3 corners (9/22)

Skeleton: B2 R2 L B * D B' D2 L' F L F2 L' F' L F L U' F R U' B D
* = F' D B' D' F D B D'
Scramble: R' U' F D2 B2 L2 F L2 U2 R2 F U R B2 D' R F U2 B L D' F' R' U' F
Solution: U2 L D U R L2 B L F L B' L F' L2 F D' L' D L D F' D' F' L' F2 U2

U2 L D U R //2x2x2 + pairs (5/5)
(U2 F2 L F) //XXcross + pairs ready on normal scramble (4/9)
L2 B L F L B' //F2L-1 + square (6/15)
L F' L2 //All but 3 pairs (3/18)
F D' L' D L D F' D' //Finish (8/26)

Another very good start was
L U' D R //EO + Pairs (4/4)
With possibil continuation
B2 D F R2 B2
B U B2 R2 B U2 R2 //All but 3 corners and 3 edges in 15
But I couldn't find good insertions.
 
Here is my 27 move solution from the 3rd scramble of Athens Winter 2016. It's the third 27 I've gotten officially, and 27 is still my at-home PB too!

Scramble (Generated with Cube Explorer): B D2 L' D2 F R' U2 B2 R D' L2 F B' L2 F R2 F' R2

U2//Pair
(F D U2 F)//2x2x2
(L B L')//Pseudo 2x2x3 + 3 Pairs
(D2 R')//some more blocks
B2 R2 B'//F2L-1
F D2 F' D2 R' D R D'//L3C

Skeleton: U2 B2 R2 B' F D2 F' D2 R' D [1] R D' R D2 L B' L' F' U2 D' F'

[1]: [B', R F' R']

Solution: U2 B2 R2 B' F D2 F' D2 R' D B' R F' R' B R F D' R D2 L B' L' F' U2 D' F' (27)
 
My solutions from PoliMi Open 2016.




Scramble: R' U' F D2 B2 L2 F L2 U2 R2 F U R B2 D' R F U2 B L D' F' R' U' F
Solution: U2 L D U R L2 B L F L B' L F' L2 F D' L' D L D F' D' F' L' F2 U2

U2 L D U R //2x2x2 + pairs (5/5)
(U2 F2 L F) //XXcross + pairs ready on normal scramble (4/9)
L2 B L F L B' //F2L-1 + square (6/15)
L F' L2 //All but 3 pairs (3/18)
F D' L' D L D F' D' //Finish (8/26)

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If you use D' F' L F D F' L F as block comm you can cancel 5 moves ;)

U2 L D U R L2 B L F L B' L F' L2 D' F' L' F D (F' L F F' L' F2) U2 (21)
 
If you use D' F' L F D F' L F as block comm you can cancel 5 moves ;)

U2 L D U R L2 B L F L B' L F' L2 D' F' L' F D (F' L F F' L' F2) U2 (21)

I am always afraid I miss something when doing those pair 3-cycles... I can never remember that particular case, maybe because I didn't fully understand it. Now I see that it is like [D', B' U' B] for corners, but with wide moves [D', Bw' U' Bw].

So, my next goal is to beat the 24.67 average that I missed because of this.
 
Weekly FMC, 28 :)
F' D' F U' B D2//2x2x2
U D R D' R2 F U' R2 F//F2L-1
R U' * B U B2 R' B R2//3C
*=U' B D2 B' U B D2 B'

Final: F' D' F U' B D2 U D R D' R2 F U' R2 F R U2 B D2 B' U B D2 U B2 R' B R2
 
28 For Weekly FMC
Scramble:U' F B' R' D B2 U F' R L D B R' U2 L2 B2 D' U2 F D2
On inverse
Pre-scramble: U F2
2x2x2: D B2 L2 U2
F21-1: L2 D' L D' B
AB3C: L2 B' L B L2 D L' D' L' D L D'
Skeleton on normal: F2 U' D L' D' L D L D' L2 B' L' B L2 B' D L' D L2 U2 L2 + B2 D'
+: L2 B R B' L2 B R' B'

Final: F2 U' D L' D' L D L D' L2 B' L' B L2 B' D L' D L2 U2 B R B' L2 B R' B D'
(28 HTM)
 
My solutions from FMC Asia 2016.

1st scramble: R' U' F D L2 B2 U' F2 L2 F2 R2 U F2 D2 F' L' D2 B2 D' B L U' R' F' R' U' F
1st solution: U2 R2 L' U2 F2 D' R F' U F U' F2 D' B' D B D F2 U2 F' D' F U2 F' D2 F' R' D' (28 moves)
15 min backup solution.

2x2x2 block: U2 R2 L' U2
More square: F2 D' R F' U F U'
More square: F2
Pseudo F2L minus 1 slot: D'
All but 3 corners: B' D B D F * D F' R' D'

Insert at *: F U2 F' D' F U2 F' D

After Pseudo F2L minus 1 slot,

B R' U' B U B D B D

also leaves 3 corners in 22 moves, but it doesn't give a better solution.

2nd scramble: R' U' F L2 F2 D2 U2 F2 R' D2 F2 L' F' R' D' R B' F' L' B' D U B R' U' F
2nd solution: U2 L2 B R' F' R' U F2 D2 L' U L U' L' U' L U' L2 U2 L U L' U L U2 L' B' U B L' (30 moves)
30 min backup solution.
(Moves in brackets are on inverse)

1x2x2 block: U2 L2 B
1x2x3 block: R' F' R' U F2
2x2x3 block: D2
Pseudo F2L minus 1 slot: (L B' U' B L)
F2L minus 1 slot: L'
Finish F2L: U L U L'
LL: L U2 L' U' L U' L', L' U2 L U L' U L, U2
Correction: L' B' U B L'

Not so bad scramble, so I should have found a better solution for this scramble, but unfortunately I couldn't. :(

3rd scramble: R' U' F L2 B2 U2 L R2 U2 L' D2 B2 D' B' F2 L B' D L2 D2 F' L' U' R' U' F
3rd solution: D' B' U2 L2 D' L2 B L' D2 R' B' L B' U B' U R' U2 R U' R' U' F R' F' R F2 L (28 moves)
15 min backup solution.

Pre-scramble: F2 L

1st square: D'
2nd square: B' U2
3rd square: L2 D' L2 B L'
F2L minus 1 slot: D2 R' B' L B' U B' U R'
More square: U2 R U' R'
All: U' F R' F' R
Correction: F2 L

28, 30, 28 = 28.67 (got 3rd place)

The result of the two winners is 26.67, excellent, congrats! I hope we can see their solutions. :)
 
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My solutions from FMC Asia 2016.

1st scramble: R' U' F D L2 B2 U' F2 L2 F2 R2 U F2 D2 F' L' D2 B2 D' B L U' R' F' R' U' F
1st solution: U2 R2 L' U2 F2 D' R F' U F U' F2 D' B' D B D F2 U2 F' D' F U2 F' D2 F' R' D' (28 moves)
15 min backup solution.

2x2x2 block: U2 R2 L' U2
More square: F2 D' R F' U F U'
More square: F2
Pseudo F2L minus 1 slot: D'
All but 3 corners: B' D B D F * D F' R' D'

Insert at *: F U2 F' D' F U2 F' D

After Pseudo F2L minus 1 slot,

B R' U' B U B D B D

also leaves 3 corners in 22 moves, but it doesn't give a better solution.

2nd scramble: R' U' F L2 F2 D2 U2 F2 R' D2 F2 L' F' R' D' R B' F' L' B' D U B R' U' F
2nd solution: U2 L2 B R' F' R' U F2 D2 L' U L U' L' U' L U' L2 U2 L U L' U L U2 L' B' U B L' (30 moves)
30 min backup solution.
(Moves in brackets are on inverse)

1x2x2 block: U2 L2 B
1x2x3 block: R' F' R' U F2
2x2x3 block: D2
Pseudo F2L minus 1 slot: (L B' U' B L)
F2L minus 1 slot: L'
Finish F2L: U L U L'
LL: L U2 L' U' L U' L', L' U2 L U L' U L, U2
Correction: L' B' U B L'

Not so bad scramble, so I should have found a better solution for this scramble, but unfortunately I couldn't. :(

3rd scramble: R' U' F L2 B2 U2 L R2 U2 L' D2 B2 D' B' F2 L B' D L2 D2 F' L' U' R' U' F
3rd solution: D' B' U2 L2 D' L2 B L' D2 R' B' L B' U B' U R' U2 R U' R' U' F R' F' R F2 L (28 moves)
15 min backup solution.

Pre-scramble: F2 L

1st square: D'
2nd square: B' U2
3rd square: L2 D' L2 B L'
F2L minus 1 slot: D2 R' B' L B' U B' U R'
More square: U2 R U' R'
All: U' F R' F' R
Correction: F2 L

28, 30, 28 = 28.67 (got 3rd place)

The result of the two winners is 26.67, excellent, congrats! I hope we can see their solutions. :)
I found this solutions for 1st scramble:

within 1 hr:

F2 U R2 U D’ L’ U’ F B’ D’ F B’ L B’ R2 B’ U D’ F2 U D’ 21 moves (17 STM)



F2 U R2 U D’ L’ U’ orient corners and 6 edges,

F B’ D’ F B’ L domino reduction,

B’ R2 B’ R2 U2 D2 to L3E,

D2 U2 R2 U D’ F2 U D’.

No time limit:

F2 U R2 U D’ L’ D’ L2 U D’ B’ F2 U2 F’ U2 D B F’ R’ 19 moves (16 STM)

F2 U R2 U D’ L’ U’ same as my first start,

(R F B’ D’ ) domino reduction,

switch back to normal sramble with premoves D B F’ R’,

F2 U R2 U D’ L’ D’ L2 U D’ /F2 U R2 U D’ L’ U’- U D’ L2 U D’/ inserted 3 edges-cycle,

B’ F2 U2 F’ U2 finish.
 
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