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This post is both happy and sad, but not very happy or sad.
I went to New York so that my grandparents can see some landmarks. I actually wanted to stay home so that I can finish my summer homework and work on BLD edges.
But I took the opportunity to set some records in the category of cubing at landmarks.
http://speedcubing.com/records/recs_fun_landmarks.html
The first day, we went to wall street. I didn't do a speed solve there. I did a 2x2 BLD. I was memorizing while walking. I had to delay the solve for a few minutes. The solve was on video. It was a success!
I only got one nice solve. 17.47 at the statue of liberty. (I beat Chris and Shelley!) I had 4 attempts. First 3 sucked. I got the first solve on video, but not this nice solve. It was timed with my cell phone. The button was small. Could be sub-17 with a nice timer.
Then, at night I went to the top of the Empire state building. The solve was on video. I didn't estimate the time yet. It was alright, but amazing or bad.
The next night, I had 2 horrible solves at central park. I couldn't see a thing. My dad told me it was something like 31 for one and 26 for the other. They are on video.
The day after that, I when to the Rockefeller plaza. There was a sign that says it is a landmark, so I got a video of me solving there. I couldn't focus at all that day, so that solve sucked a lot. Didn't estimate the time, but it could be as bad as 33.
I also cubed a lot on the subway. I had a couple of 2x2 BLDs that I was sure that they broke my PB, but I couldn't time them. One felt like a 5 second memo and a 15 second execution. It was amazing. But I don't know the times for certain. From a few timed solves, I see that I now do average sub-20 memo. I still need to work on my execution. 3-5 seconds per corner is kind of bad.
Here is a sad part. This morning, we returned. My SAT subject test scores arrived. I got 770 on both math and physics. My father was so mad that he smashed my pyraminx, and my friend's crappy 4x4.(there goes my chance of doing a simulated 2x2 multibld 4/4 or some other sort of relays). (Won't break that pyraminx NR; that's for sure.) 770 on physics is a little disappointing. I did a few practice tests before the real one, and I did get some problems wrong, but it was enough to get 800. 770, I suppose, is in the range for a bad day.
For math, it's a joke. The problems were so easy. I could have gotten 800 when I was in 6th grade BLD. I have no clue how it could be. I checked my answers plenty of times too. (I've tried the practice tests years before and recently and I got every question right most of the time. Even when I do my a silly mistake, it's less than 2 mistakes. 770 is probably like the score for getting 5 wrong, which is extremely unlikely. I asked my friend too, and he also only got a 740. ( It was really easy for him too, and he is a bit more careless than me, but it shouldn't be that low.)
This probably means no cubing for a while. Maybe just a few FMC on gabbasoft.
This post is both happy and sad, but not very happy or sad.
I went to New York so that my grandparents can see some landmarks. I actually wanted to stay home so that I can finish my summer homework and work on BLD edges.
But I took the opportunity to set some records in the category of cubing at landmarks.
http://speedcubing.com/records/recs_fun_landmarks.html
The first day, we went to wall street. I didn't do a speed solve there. I did a 2x2 BLD. I was memorizing while walking. I had to delay the solve for a few minutes. The solve was on video. It was a success!
I only got one nice solve. 17.47 at the statue of liberty. (I beat Chris and Shelley!) I had 4 attempts. First 3 sucked. I got the first solve on video, but not this nice solve. It was timed with my cell phone. The button was small. Could be sub-17 with a nice timer.
Then, at night I went to the top of the Empire state building. The solve was on video. I didn't estimate the time yet. It was alright, but amazing or bad.
The next night, I had 2 horrible solves at central park. I couldn't see a thing. My dad told me it was something like 31 for one and 26 for the other. They are on video.
The day after that, I when to the Rockefeller plaza. There was a sign that says it is a landmark, so I got a video of me solving there. I couldn't focus at all that day, so that solve sucked a lot. Didn't estimate the time, but it could be as bad as 33.
I also cubed a lot on the subway. I had a couple of 2x2 BLDs that I was sure that they broke my PB, but I couldn't time them. One felt like a 5 second memo and a 15 second execution. It was amazing. But I don't know the times for certain. From a few timed solves, I see that I now do average sub-20 memo. I still need to work on my execution. 3-5 seconds per corner is kind of bad.
Here is a sad part. This morning, we returned. My SAT subject test scores arrived. I got 770 on both math and physics. My father was so mad that he smashed my pyraminx, and my friend's crappy 4x4.(there goes my chance of doing a simulated 2x2 multibld 4/4 or some other sort of relays). (Won't break that pyraminx NR; that's for sure.) 770 on physics is a little disappointing. I did a few practice tests before the real one, and I did get some problems wrong, but it was enough to get 800. 770, I suppose, is in the range for a bad day.
For math, it's a joke. The problems were so easy. I could have gotten 800 when I was in 6th grade BLD. I have no clue how it could be. I checked my answers plenty of times too. (I've tried the practice tests years before and recently and I got every question right most of the time. Even when I do my a silly mistake, it's less than 2 mistakes. 770 is probably like the score for getting 5 wrong, which is extremely unlikely. I asked my friend too, and he also only got a 740. ( It was really easy for him too, and he is a bit more careless than me, but it shouldn't be that low.)
This probably means no cubing for a while. Maybe just a few FMC on gabbasoft.
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