Interesting official scrambles

[Hssandwich]

Carnegie Mellon Fall 2014 Pyraminx Scramble 5 in group B
I got a 5.49 +2
R U L' U B' R U R U L B' l b'

Lol, 6 move body.

 

[Robert-Y]

Jan Bentlage's Skewb single WR scramble from WC2015:

L R U L U' L' R U' B' R' L'

 

[Robert-Y]

Two easy pyraminx scrambles from ABHC 2015. Not as crazy as other scrambles in this thread:

Round 1, Group C, 3rd scramble: L' U' L' B' U' B' L' R U' B' R' u' r

Round 2, Group B, 2nd scramble: R B U' R' B R U B R L U (No tips!)

I "failed" the first one but still managed a sub 3. It's the only time when I wished that I knew full L4E
9 move solution with the scramble which resulted in an NR (2.11) for me. I couldn't really find a decent way to execute my solution without that many regrips. If you're stuck, hint: one flip.

 

[Torch]

2x2 Atlanta Open Round 1 Group E 1st scramble: U' R F R2 U' R2 U2 F' R2 U' R'

Since 2x2 was the first event, a bunch of first-time competitors got this for their first ever official solve.

 

[YTCuber]

Onehanded Scramble (Velbert 2015):
L' D' R' F2 U2 L U B' R L F2 D2 L2 F' R2 U2 B' R2 U2 F'
easy xcross (R F2 ...)

 

[TDM]

Onehanded Scramble (Velbert 2015):
L' D' R' F2 U2 L U B' R L F2 D2 L2 F' R2 U2 B' R2 U2 F'
easy xcross (R F2 ...)

R F2 z // X-Cross (2/2)
U' R' U2 R y' R U' R' // F2L-2 (7/9)
U2 L U2 L' U y R' U' R // F2L-3 (8/17)
y R' U' R U R' U R U2 y R U R' // F2L-4 (11/28) (OLL skip)
Obviously I'd do an A perm in a speedsolve, but IF gives a 33 move solution.

 

[lejitcuber]

Two easy pyraminx scrambles from ABHC 2015. Not as crazy as other scrambles in this thread:

Round 1, Group C, 3rd scramble: L' U' L' B' U' B' L' R U' B' R' u' r

Round 2, Group B, 2nd scramble: R B U' R' B R U B R L U (No tips!)

I "failed" the first one but still managed a sub 3. It's the only time when I wished that I knew full L4E
9 move solution with the scramble which resulted in an NR (2.11) for me. I couldn't really find a decent way to execute my solution without that many regrips. If you're stuck, hint: one flip.

For the second one I got a DNF and 2 looked it. It was a 2.91 with a cycle the wrong way

 

[fabdabs1234]

Two easy pyraminx scrambles from ABHC 2015. Not as crazy as other scrambles in this thread:

Round 1, Group C, 3rd scramble: L' U' L' B' U' B' L' R U' B' R' u' r

Round 2, Group B, 2nd scramble: R B U' R' B R U B R L U (No tips!)

I "failed" the first one but still managed a sub 3. It's the only time when I wished that I knew full L4E
9 move solution with the scramble which resulted in an NR (2.11) for me. I couldn't really find a decent way to execute my solution without that many regrips. If you're stuck, hint: one flip.

there was another easy scramble but i dont think anyone actually got it as it was the second extra scramble on round 2 group 3
L R B' R' L B' U B' L' B' R u l r' b

B R L' R U' + tips

 

[Robert-Y]

I would almost certainly fail/DNF that solve because of the tips

 

[Damien Porter]

The final solve in 3bld the Sydney Autumn 2012 had 6 correctly positioned (though all miss oriented) Corners and multiple correct edges. As the event was not official due to technical difficulties I don't have the actual scramble sorry.

 

[cuberkid10]

2x2 Atlanta Open Round 1 Group E 1st scramble: U' R F R2 U' R2 U2 F' R2 U' R'

Since 2x2 was the first event, a bunch of first-time competitors got this for their first ever official solve.

I got 1.28. When I was judging this round, I saw the solve and was like "What the heck. I wish I was in this round".

 

[biscuit]

I got 1.28. When I was judging this round, I saw the solve and was like "What the heck. I wish I was in this round".

Trying to solve a 3x3 as a 2x2... Just no. My 2x2's just over there... but...

 

[Cale S]

I just found this:

Melrose Spring 2015, pyraminx, first round, group A, 4th scramble
L B' R B L R' L' U' B L' B' l' b

 

[AlexMaass]

I just found this:

Melrose Spring 2015, pyraminx, first round, group A, 4th scramble
L B' R B L R' L' U' B L' B' l' b

yeah I heard about this, Arlo got a 1.96 on it

 

[ottozing]

3rd scramble of German Nationals 2015 3x3 final. Bennet, Jong-Ho, and Sebastien all got sub 7's on this scramble. Henri got like a 7.1x and some other people got sub 8's on this too. I heard somewhere that a lot of them had fat sune PLL skip but didn't see any reconstructions available. I'm assuming they all did either one of these 2 solutions which are almost identical.

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

Spoiler: Solution #1

x2
F' D R' F L2 (Cross)
U' R U' R' U' F U' F'
y U2 R U R' U R U' R'
U L' U' L U' L' U L
y R U R' U' R U R'
U Fatsune U

Notice how on the first pair you can actually preserve the pair you're going to do next. Watch what happens when you do that.

Spoiler: Solution #2

x2
F' D R' F L2 (Cross)
U' R U' R' F U2 F'
y U2 R U R'
U L' U' L U' L' U L
y R U R' U' R U R'
U Fatsune U

So basically, U' F U' F' y U2 R U R' U R U' R' does the same thing as F U2 F' y U2 R U R' I wonder how many people did the better solution.

 

[Robert-Y]

What I find kinda interesting is that they didn't choose to solve the green-orange pair for the first pair? You can see the pair break up after the last move in the cross, right? So just track the pair and solve it? (U L U L' U' L U L')

Another "pro" solution:

x2
F' D R' F L2 (Cross)
U L U L' U' L U L'
y U R U' R'
y' U2 R U' R' U2 y' R U' R'
U R U' R'
PLL (L perm)

 

[biscuit]

y U R U' R'

That y feels kind of unnecessary to me. You can finger trick it in with out doing the y it fairly well doing

U (push with your left index finger) B (pulling with right index) U' B'

Not sure how viable this is in a speed solve without practicing the insert. The other issue, is that it might limit look ahead.

 

[EMI]

What I find kinda interesting is that they didn't choose to solve the green-orange pair for the first pair? You can see the pair break up after the last move in the cross, right? So just track the pair and solve it? (U L U L' U' L U L')

It's just very easy to track orange-blue during inspection, because it doesn't move at all.
The other pairs are very easy to look ahead into after that.
Overall a pretty cool scramble indeed
The first scramble was also really good imo: R F2 U2 L U2 L F2 D2 R2 D2 R D' L' U' B' D U R' U' B' (reconstructed scramble)
X-(EO)-cross: x2 D R' L y' U2 L F' L'
2nd: y R U R' U' R U R' U' R U R'
3rd: y U' R U' R' U R U R'
4th: y2 U' R U2 R' U2 R U' R'
Sune: R' U' R U' R' U2 R
Z-perm: M2' U M2' U M' U2 M2' U2 M' U2

I know, the part after the X-cross could have been more elegant

 

[AlexMaass]

R' U' R2 U' R2 U' R2 U' R2 U2 R

2x2 scramble from the recent Polish comp

 

[ottozing]

R' U' R2 U' R2 U' R2 U' R2 U2 R

2x2 scramble from the recent Polish comp

An obvious 2gen 5 mover and a less obvious 2gen 6 mover, yet the only person to sub 1 was someone who doesn't even do 2x2