Negative Time Solving Contest 2017

[Lucas Garron]

It's the 14th year of the annual Negative Time Solving Contest!

DST (Daylight Saving Time) ends in most parts of the United States and Canada at 2am on Sunday, November 5. See negative-time.cubing.net for more information. I know a lot of cubers these days talk on Facebook, so feel free to invite them to the Facebook event if you'd like.

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 3x3x3 speedsolve, 3x3x3 BLD, multi BLD, etc, at the cost of some extra time in your negative solve.

This will be my 11th year doing 3x3x3 speedsolve, which means that I will finally get enough counting solves for an average of 12.

But if you've never done it yet, now's the time to try! After all, your result is almost guaranteed to be an hour faster than your previous record.

 

[applezfall]

cool I will try .I will be going to my cousins so idk if they will be fine with me staying up to 3 am

 

[Max Cruz]

What's the world record?

 

[Mike Hughey]

I thought I should remind people it's almost time for this in most of the United States.

 

[Ghost Cuber]

Can we use any timer or is there an "official" one?

 

[Mike Hughey]

You can use any timer; then you have to do the calculations yourself to figure out what the negative time is.

 

[Ghost Cuber]

You can use any timer; then you have to do the calculations yourself to figure out what the negative time is.

Thank you. Do I just subtract the time I get from one hour?

 

[Mike Hughey]

Thank you. Do I just subtract the time I get from one hour?

Yes. You can use something like this to make it easier:
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/timeadd.html

 

[Ghost Cuber]

My time was 22.711, so -59:38.289. That was really fun!

 

[applezfall]

my time was 13.45 so -59:46:55