I am back from the competition! I did really well on my goals (except bld… we'll get to that later). Out of my goals, I accomplished the following:
- sub 20 3x3 ao5
- sub 16 pr 3x3 single
- sub 7 2x2 ao5 (the hardest goal here)
I unfortunately triple dnfed in bld, but there's always next time! There's the PBQ I mentioned earlier in November, but I still haven't signed up yet.
For 2x2, I got a sub 7 ao5 (5.61 with 3.87 fastest single). I don't care too much about 2x2, but still happy that I did decent!
For 3x3, I annihilated the sub-20 barrier. In round one, I got a 16. Then another 16, and another 16! After that, I got an 18 but then another 16. I was really consistent, no clue why to be honest. That gave me a 16.51 pr ao5 (old pr was 20.08). I also did an accidental xxcross on the first solve (I planned a xcross but didn't see it would actually be an xxcross). In second round, I started off with a bang! I got a 12.75, less than 0.2 seconds away from overall pb! It had an oll skip, and my F2L was really smooth; I barely paused. (I ended up getting a 19, 18, 15, and 21 afterwards which gave me a 17.77 average).
To be honest, if I told someone that I improved from a 16 second single and 20.08 second ao5 to a 12 second single and 16 second ao5 in three weeks, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't believe me. But I somehow did it, and it's official! Results for the comp will probably be posted sometime later today; they always go up really quickly for Canadian comps.
Overall, the competition was really fun, and I got PRs in everything! (except bld :/)
) or fmc. I can't compete in all of them though because it's a favourites comp—you can only choose four of your favourite events to compete in. I chose 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, and megaminx, but will likely change my events later, depending on how I'm doing in them all and which I feel that I will do best in. My plan to prepare for the competition is to practice all events and see what I'm averaging with them. Then I will switch the events I am registered for depending on whichever ones I am enjoying the most and doing the best at. For most events I think that I am at the stage where I can easily improve with enough practice and without learning any new methods, but I will probably learn algorithm sets for some events. My plan is to learn CLL for 2x2 so that I can use it at the competition instead of ortega.
