Negative Time Solving Contest 2013

[cmhardw]

Why the sudden inclination toward teamwork? As of last night, Kenneth is now my fiance

Congratulations Shelley!!! That's great news!

At 1:50am I made a last minute decision to do a team BLD attempt with Kenneth (ToastyKen). This gave us just enough time to give him a crash course in the Berkeley calling method and one practice solve before starting the real attempt. We ran into a snafu near the end and our PLL involved three corners on the top and bottom layers, but we managed to finish in -56:41.14.

That sounds like it was a lot of fun, especially the quick crash course and trying to get ready before the time change part!

 

[kcl]

-59 minutes, 47.17 seconds. Only .17 faster than last year, but whatever. Still had fun




So you didn't use the scramble provided?

Wat.. No, apparently I didn't

 

[Sessinator]

Finally got around to doing a negative solve!

3BLD in -59 minutes 7.1 seconds.

 

[shelley]

Thanks!

The Berkeley calling method for F2L is surprisingly quick for even beginners to learn. However, I forgot to take into account the issues we would run into with the last layer - he only knows a few OLLs and PLLs, and even when I tried calling basic 4LLL, it turns out he does them differently from how I originally taught him. Also, he wasn't quite comfortable with doing all his algs blindfolded and would sometimes get stuck or do wrong moves by accident, so I ended up telling him the final PLL move by move.

He also got confused when we started and the first moves for the cross were "F2 L!"

 

[antoineccantin]

He also got confused when we started and the first moves for the cross were "F2 L!"

Haha, I would be too!

 

[macky]

Results have been posted! Thanks to all who participated!

 

[cmhardw]

Macky, thank you for your work in continuing the Negative Time solving contest again this year! Thanks for tabulating the results and for all the work you do! It is much appreciated!

 

[Mike Hughey]

Hah! I love that Ravi did a juggling negative time solve!

Chris, it looks to me like your solve is listed as if it's a DNF, but yours was successful, wasn't it?

And did Lucas do a speedBLD attempt? By the time, it looks like one. If not, there must be some other fun explanation for the time, I'm sure.

All told, some very creative attempts this year. Lots of fun!

 

[cmhardw]

Mike, congrats on your negative time 7x7x7BLD success!

Yes my attempt was a success, Ravi already informed Macky about it on facebook it looks like.

 

[Lucas Garron]

And did Lucas do a speedBLD attempt? By the time, it looks like one. If not, there must be some other fun explanation for the time, I'm sure.

Nope. I just waited for Ravi to finish, then tried to be very careful. The latter didn't work, but the former was impressive as usual.

 

[macky]

Mike, congrats on your negative time 7x7x7BLD success!

Yes my attempt was a success, Ravi already informed Macky about it on facebook it looks like.

It's been fixed!

Also, I know the section headings don't look right now after some css changes I made (1.5 year ago), but I unfortunately really don't have the time to take care of things like this these days.