Negative Time Solving Contest 2008

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macky said:
JBCM627 said:
@Macky, its kind of late, but: it looks like you just need to make "negative_speed.html" and "negative_dump.html" read/writable
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How would I do that?
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Not sure, right-click and properties? chmod 777 path/file? Depends how you access the server/what kind of server it is.

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(...wait, but then you know how to find the results anyway.)
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Good point.
Results! http://cube.garron.us/misc/negative_time/negative_dump.html
(Lucas, you may smite me if you don't want this URL up.)
 
Well, it's a small file.

Got it. Right clicking in FileZilla brings up permissions. Thanks. I'll keep this in mind for next year.
 
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How very disappointing.

4/7 = 1 point, -12:46.12.

Cubes 2 and 6 were off by 3 edges; cube 7 was off by 2 corners and 2 edges. On 2 and 6, I had cases where I use commutators instead of M2 for edges, and I cycled them both the wrong direction, in exactly the same way. :( (I hope I never make THAT mistake again!) On cube 7 I had mismatched parity memorized; I guessed that two corners were wrong, but the truth was that I got an edge wrong.

Oh well, even without the time change, it was a pretty good time for me. At least it wasn't a DNF (by competition standards).
 
Aww, too bad. Better luck next year.

I'm going to sleep. Maybe there will be a lot of participants on the west coast, but in the eastern zone it's a relatively poor showing this year.
 
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Good point.
Results! http://cube.garron.us/misc/negative_time/negative_dump.html
(Lucas, you may smite me if you don't want this URL up.)
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Prepare to be DEVASTATED!

Uh, I don't really care if anybody looks up that page (or uses the puny bandwidth). It's just badly formatted, has a broken table, and I think it's nice not to see the results until they're all submitted. :)

Also see http://cube.garron.us/misc/negative_time/negative_speed.html, http://cube.garron.us/misc/negative_time/negative_BLD.html, and http://cube.garron.us/misc/negative_time/negative_other.html


EDIT: Note, I had thought Macky's site wasn't working because the files weren't there (hence couldn't be accessed). Other than that, I couldn't think of anything else to fix, since it worked last year.
 
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-59:43.94

i was stupid and first submitted it as -00:16.06. then I performed poor math and resubmitted as -59:45.92. god I feel dumb right now. please forgive me, last night was very wild and I am going on very little sleep.

on a side note(or is it on topic?), did anyone else think that this was an easy scramble? I had a 29 move f2l with a lot of easy cases, and then a super fast LL.

looking back I did quite a few rotations, not including the one before solving, they totaled y x2 x2 x2 x x z (U+d). they did really interfere though, i guess that the tradeoff involved with f2l on left.

spoiler if anyone hasnt done it yet
scrambled with white on top, green on front, did yellow cross
cross: z2 R r U r2 y R2 U2 (6)
1st pair: R U' R U x2 U' R U (13)
2nd: x2 U R2 U2 R' U (18)
3rd: x2 R U R' U' (22)
4th: x U' R U R' x U R' U' (29)
OLL: z f R U R' U' R U R' U' f' (39)
PLL: (U+d) R U' R U R U R U' R' U' R2 (52)
 
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Vault312 said:
-50:45.92

i was stupid and first submitted it as -00:16.08. please forgive me, last night was very wild and I am going on very little sleep.

on a side note(or is it on topic?), did anyone else think that this was an easy scramble? I had a 29 move f2l with a lot of easy cases, and then a super fast LL.

looking back I did quite a few rotations, not including the one before solving, they totaled y x2 x2 x2 x x z (U+d). you'll see what i mean.

spoiler if anyone hasnt done it yet
scrambled with white on top, green on front, did yellow cross
cross: z2 R r U r2 y R2 U2 (6)
1st pair: R U' R U x2 U' R U (13)
2nd: x2 U R2 U2 R' U (18)
3rd: x2 R U R' U' (22)
4th: x U' R U R' x U R' U' (29)
OLL: z f R U R' U' R U R' U' f' (39)
PLL: (U+d) R U' R U R U R U' R' U' R2 (52)
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Yeah, the cross was very easy for me, and my F2L for me was relatively fast as well. I also had the other U perm at the end, so I felt sexy. :D
 
Temporary results are up! Vault312, I've edited out your first two submissions (but I used the comment from your first submission).

If I missed someone's result, let me know. I'll check again later to see if there are new results.
 
Lucas Garron said:
Vault312 said:
What's with the slashes before apostrophes on the results page? Also can we please get rid of my first two 3x3 submissions, they make me feel bad.
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Just wondering, how did you do a 16sec 3x3x3 around a 9.xx clock?
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I guess I didn't. Good lord I should have taken a nap before doing this.
 
I think the results are pretty much final now.

http://www.cubefreak.net/negative.html#results

There were 42 participants representing 6 countries (plus Smerbia). Of these, 2 participated in Europe and the rest were from North America. This is the largest turn out ever for this annual event, now in its fifth year! Here are the top 3's for 3x3:

3x3 Speedsolve
Jason Baum / USA / -59 minutes, 49.43 seconds / I did ZBF2L and ended with this ZBLL case: F R U' R' U' R U' L U' R' U L' U2 F'

Jun Hyuk Kim / USA / -59 minutes, 48.20 seconds / ahaha, that was fun, but i got in trouble by my parents :S

Stefan Huber / Austria / -59 minutes, 46.91 seconds / not really good (bad PLL recognition), but better than last year ;)

More:
Felix Lee was the only person to successfully solve a 3x3 blindfolded, with a time of -54 minutes, 53 seconds.

Two people, Michael Gottlieb and Henry Fung, solved a 7x7 in negative time. Michael's winning time was -54 minutes, 18.78 seconds.

Mike Hughey got a 4/7 for multiBLD in -12 minutes, 46.12 seconds. Major props for trying this, and if you try again next year, I hope to see a 100% !

Thanks to all participants, and to Lucas Garron for the submission script. That was fun!

Best,
-macky
 
Ack, noes! I was out of town, and I did do the solves (I passed out before 1am and woke up right before 2 in time to do them) but I couldn't submit it till now.

Speedsolve: 18.59 real time (-59 minutes, 41.41 seconds)
BLD: 2:02.34 real time (-57 minutes, 57.66 seconds)
 
Andrew Nelson cheated. His comment for his square-1 result says "3 cubes, all started before the timechange".

And Hadley was lucky he's so slow with megaminx (or was that intentional?).
 
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Uh, isn't that what you're always supposed to do when you're doing multiple negative time solves? The way I understand it he did three negative time sq1 solves (at once) and then submitted the mean of the three negative times.
 
I'm Andrew Nelson. I started about 5 seconds before the time change. I did a U turn on two sq-1's, then picked up the third and solved it. I looked down at the time, and it was 18.XX (I put 18.99 as per generally accepted procedures). I picked up the second, and set it down by the time the timer said 41.XX. Finally, I picked up the third and solved it, finishing at 1:15.XX. I averaged the three and sumbitted that.
 
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