Negative Time Solving Contest 2015

[Myachii]

Well... according to previous threads this will be the 12th year this has happened.

Basically, you use this website to determine when the clocks will go back in your location. You start a solve (physically start it, as in start the timer and turn the puzzle) a few seconds/minutes (depending on the puzzle) before the clocks go back. Your final time is then -1:00:00.000 + your final solve time, so if I did a 6x6 solve and it took me 3:34.376 seconds, then my final time would be -56:25.624.

Idk if this is still a thing but I'll be doing it because I missed it last year xD

 

[macky]

Okay, this is the official thread.

It's the 12th year of the annual Negative Time Solving Contest!

DST (Daylight Saving Time) ends in many countries in Europe during the weekend of October 24, and in most parts of the United States and Canada at 2am on Sunday, November 1. See Time and Date.com to check the clock change schedule in your area. There's also a Facebook event page (scheduled at North America time).

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 BLD, multiBLD, etc, at the cost of some extra time in your negative solve.

Thanks to Tyson Mao for bringing this great Caltech tradition to cubing. Good luck to all participants!

macky

 

[Myachii]

Okay, this is the official thread.

It's the 12th year of the annual Negative Time Solving Contest!

DST (Daylight Saving Time) ends in many countries in Europe during the weekend of October 24, and in most parts of the United States and Canada at 2am on Sunday, November 1. See Time and Date.com to check the clock change schedule in your area. There's also a Facebook event page (scheduled at North America time).

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 BLD, multiBLD, etc, at the cost of some extra time in your negative solve.

Thanks to Tyson Mao for bringing this great Caltech tradition to cubing. Good luck to all participants!

macky

Thanks Macky
Saw the 2014 one, but nobody had made a 2015 one yet

 

[stoic]

3x3x3 -59:33.71

Not bad considering all the Heineken I drank while waiting.

 

[matty]

-59:47.336, the pressure got to me

 

[Myachii]

Result submitted at -59 minutes, 48.30 seconds

 

[penguinz7]

ughh I don't want to stay up to 2 in the morning..

 

[illius]

I set an alarm on my phone and put it on vibrate. I left the phone on my desk beside me, and it woke me up, but not my family. I grabbed my AoLong V1, and crept into the bathroom, having walked through the corridor-with-the-squeaky-floorboards. I opened Plus-Timer, etc. and got a : -59:44.962. The actual solve was not a PB, but I did break that yesterday - 11.99 to 11.61.

 

[TDM]

ughh I don't want to stay up to 2 in the morning..

Me neither. I never do, so I'll probably never get a negative solve

 

[Myachii]

Me neither. I never do, so I'll probably never get a negative solve

Well technically you'd only be staying up till 1