[WR] Jayden McNeill 21.00 FMC mean of 3

[abunickabhi]

Congrats Jay!

 

[Billabob]

jesus, what an incredible result, congrats

 

[artless1der]

now that he's tied with Cale Schoon ... It Is ON!

 

[JDAW6]

Omg! Guys fmc wr!

 

[An Animating Cuber]

FMCer's trying not tie the 21 WR average challenge! *impossible*

 

[Davian]

now that he's tied with Cale Schoon ... It Is ON!

jayden can win 1st place at worlds easily as cale isnt there

 

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

jayden can win 1st place at worlds easily as cale isnt there

Probably, but other FMCers are coming and if they find luckier solutions then him then he might not win.

 

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

Congrats to him!

I can't wait to see his solutions.

 

[Isaiah Scott]

Congrats to him!

I can't wait to see his solutions.

For sure

 

[ProStar]

Woah! Congrats to Jay!

 

[fes_77]

wow 3 21 means

 

[Running for cube]

Wow, the lbl podcast was just talking about how good at fmc/dr he is now so this is crazy

 

[caleb_g]

its about time he gets a wr, deserved fr

 

[Garf]

Live results?

 

[Deleted member 36445]

He deserves!

 

[Automatixz]

I just realised, does he hold the longest wait for a world record? (at 8 years, 5 months and 20 days)

 

[ottozing]

Reconstructions

1 (20) - R' U' F D L U R2 F L2 B' L2 F2 D2 F' D' R' D2 B2 L' F' U B R' U' F

Spoiler: Solution

(F B) F' B // EO 4/4
L' U' // DR-4C4E 2/6
D2 R D // DR 3/9
B2 D2 R U2 B2 R' // HTR 6/15
L2 B F' U2 R2 U2 F B' // Solved 8-3/20

Spoiler: Comments

Scramble is 18 optimal

My solution is optimal from the DR. This is the first time I've found this 2 move 8 back on both ends of the scramble style of 4 move EO before despite looking for it on my last 100+ attempts, and the scramble has two ways to do it (I found both!)

2 (21) - R' U' F U' F2 U F2 U R2 U F R F' L B R' F R' U2 L F' U R' U' F

Spoiler: Solution

(F' U' F L) // EO, DR-3C2E 4/4
U2 F' U F U // DR 5/9
(B) D2 R2 F' D2 R2 B // HTR 7/16
U2 L2 F2 D2 R2 // Solved 5/21

Spoiler: Comments

Scramble is 18 optimal

My solution is optimal from the DR. I didn't have even a backup skeleton in the first 50 mins & eventually stumbled on this solution for one of my DR's. While I think I would have had time to rewrite the slice if needed, the fact that I skipped this step was really helpful

I also had this 8 move DR on this scramble but it was 5qt corners

(U' L) // EO 2/2
F' U // DR-4C4E 2/4
(B2 D2 F' U) // DR 4/8

Optimal from this DR is worse than 21 so I'm glad I only spent maybe 2 minutes on this before moving on

3 (22) - R' U' F L2 F' L2 B D2 R F' B2 U F2 D R2 F2 R2 B2 D' R' U B' R' U' F

Spoiler: Solution

B D' U' R' // EO 4/4
F // DR-4C4E 1/5
D B2 D B' // DR 4/9
L2 U (R2 D B2 D B2 D) // HTR 8/17
(F' B L2 B' F') // Solved 5/22

Spoiler: Comments

Scramble is 18 optimal

My solution is one move worse than optimal from the DR. I actually found the skeleton which leads to optimal but didn't check it, though I did check a similar skeleton which leads to 3E+slice (or 3E idr) using a similar HTR on normal

L2 [U' F2 D'] L2 D L2 D} // HTR 8/17
F2 R2 // AB2E2E 2/19

[] = U F2 {D2 B2 D // Leave slice 5-3/21

{} = U2 F2 U F2 D F2 U // Solved 7-7/21

This exact solution is the only way to get a sub 22 from this DR, so I'm not too upset about failing sub 21 for the 3rd time since I at least have WR now

Here's my backup 23 from this DR

(B2 U' L2 B2 U B2 D' F2 D) // HTR 9/18
(U2 F B U2 D2 F' B') // Solved 7-2/23

I only had a 23 until the last 2-3 minutes of the attempt where I tried switching after L2 U to find more HTR's. Similar to solve 2, I skipped needing to rewrite the slice which was even more lucky than last time as I wrote this 22 down, checked it, and then crossed out my 23 with 3 seconds left on my stopwatch. There's a chance I may have even missed the finish if the slice didn't skip as I was very nervous at this part of the attempt since I really didn't want to fail WR in FMC mo3 again

I also didn't realize the scramble had a 2/3 move EO until around 35 minutes in as I had initially misrecognized the case & only realized it when I went back and realized my R/L inverse EO's didn't work. I haven't analyzed these EO's yet but based on the few things I checked, I don't think I missed anything obvious from them & missing these EO's may have actually benefitted me, which is another reason why this solve is lucky

 

[VincentCuber]

Sub gods number mean incoming!

 

[Jake - Speedcuber]

Quoting Phoenix Patterson: Cube Master's predictions were wrong!

 

[turtwig]

I just realised, does he hold the longest wait for a world record? (at 8 years, 5 months and 20 days)

I'm not sure exactly how you're defining this, but Michał Krasowski's first competition was in December 2013 and his first (and only) WR (3.73 Square-1 single) was in February 2023 (don't know if it's the longest, but it's over 9 years). If you mean time between WRs, it is in fact Jayden McNeill (at ~3093 days). Second place is Cale Schoon (~1736 days, between his 5BLD mean in 2015 and FMC mean in 2020). If you don't count that (since Cale's 5BLD mean was retroactive), it's Patrick Ponce (~1659 days between since 3x3 single in 2017 and his OH average in 2022).