macky
Premium Member
Announcing the Negative Time Solving Contest 2008
Continuing with what has now become a tradition, I'm once again
organizing the yearly Negative Time Solving Contest. The official page
is at http://cubefreak.net/negative.html, where the scrambles for
this year have already been posted.
DST (Daylight Saving Time) ends at 3am on Sunday, October 26 in many
countries in Europe. In most parts of the United States and Canada,
DST ends at 2am on Sunday, November 2. See Time and
Date.com to check the clock change schedule in your area. I will
NOT post the results from Europe until the results from North America
come in a week later.
Please note that each solve started (not just start the timer but
actually make a move) before daylight saving ends and completed after
it ends counts as a negative solve. This means that you can
simultaneously compete in 3x3 speedsolve, 3x3 blindfolded, and
whatever else your cubing heart desires, at the cost of some extra
time in your negative solve. I think a fun category would be "most
cubes solved blindfolded in a negative time." the whole thing needs to
be done in an hour, so you first have to decide on the number of
cubers to attempt, and then, taking into account your average
memorization time for that number of cubes, start memorizing at some
appropriate time before daylight saving ends.
You can find instructions for sending in your times on the link above.
Once again, thanks to Tyson Mao for bringing this great Caltech
tradition to cubing. Good luck to all participants!
You can post questions here.
Best,
-macky
Continuing with what has now become a tradition, I'm once again
organizing the yearly Negative Time Solving Contest. The official page
is at http://cubefreak.net/negative.html, where the scrambles for
this year have already been posted.
DST (Daylight Saving Time) ends at 3am on Sunday, October 26 in many
countries in Europe. In most parts of the United States and Canada,
DST ends at 2am on Sunday, November 2. See Time and
Date.com to check the clock change schedule in your area. I will
NOT post the results from Europe until the results from North America
come in a week later.
Please note that each solve started (not just start the timer but
actually make a move) before daylight saving ends and completed after
it ends counts as a negative solve. This means that you can
simultaneously compete in 3x3 speedsolve, 3x3 blindfolded, and
whatever else your cubing heart desires, at the cost of some extra
time in your negative solve. I think a fun category would be "most
cubes solved blindfolded in a negative time." the whole thing needs to
be done in an hour, so you first have to decide on the number of
cubers to attempt, and then, taking into account your average
memorization time for that number of cubes, start memorizing at some
appropriate time before daylight saving ends.
You can find instructions for sending in your times on the link above.
Once again, thanks to Tyson Mao for bringing this great Caltech
tradition to cubing. Good luck to all participants!
You can post questions here.
Best,
-macky
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