Race to Sub 25

[bigbee99]

YOu all have until Friday 12 am Eastern Time

 

[bigbee99]

less than 3 hours left!

 

[iasimp1997]

I'm out. I don't have time to do it.

 

[bigbee99]

thread updated

 

[Toquinha1977]

Thought I'd ask...are we doing the scrambles according to Cube Explorer WCA scrambles, which have U=White, F=Green? When I booted up CE5.00, it has U=Yellow, F=red. This DOES make a difference, because even though everybody could have a different starting point, generating the scramble with white or yellow on top has a 50% chance of generating an easier or harder cross.

 

[Toquinha1977]

Just to see what would happen, I did two sets of scrambles with a different colour on top just to see what difference it made. I got two sub20 solves with the second batch, while my sub20 solve in the first batch was the slowest scramble in the second batch.

If we're trying to simulate tournament conditions and given that the bulk of those who are struggling with sub25 averages are not likely going to be cross neutral, would it be worthwhile to indicate which colour is top and front for the scrambles?

(U=yellow, F=Green)

21.27, 26.88, 25.75, 25.47, 23.34, (38.08), 28.21, 23.03, 26.21, 22.16, 31.06, (19.81)

avg: 25.34

notes:
#2 - serious brain fart, almost dropped the cube
#6 - made a mistake on the A-perm, had to restart from F2L. D'oh!
#7 - 2 look OLL (mistake)
#8 - easier F2L
#10 - 3-move cross
#11 - tough cross
#12 - only sub-20 solve in batch, even with edge and corner incorrectly slotted on last F2L pair.

set #2 - scramble with U=white, F=green

20.25, 23.09 (+2), 25.72, 26.83, (18.28), 29.34, 18.57, 24.34, (35.13), 25.52, 28.69, 30.36

average: 25.47

notes:
#1 - PLL skip
#2 - 2 second penalty for misaligned face
#3 - managed to forget my plans for cross solve
#4 - brain fart on OLL
#6 - lockups galore
#7 - no skips
#9 - weak cross and poor lookahead on F2L
#10 - slotted corner with inverted edge on last F2L pair
#11 - very weak lookahead

 

[Anthony]

Unless you're Faz... Then you will go from not being able to solve, to sub 8 in 2 years.

Faz is obviously extremely fast, but he's not sub 8. >_>

 

[CubesOfTheWorld]

Doing a competition every 5 seconds is not going to help. Someone would be in here for 3 weeks, at most.

 

[koreancuber]

Bigbee99: Wanna join my thread?

 

[bigbee99]

Bigbee99: Wanna join my thread?

Nah, im not even sub 30 yet, (no time to learn new algorithms.)

 

[koreancuber]

Bigbee99: Wanna join my thread?

Nah, im not even sub 30 yet, (no time to learn new algorithms.)

You realize that there are some cubers that are in the same position as you? (in the sub-20). How fast are you? (average)

 

[bigbee99]

Bigbee99: Wanna join my thread?

Nah, im not even sub 30 yet, (no time to learn new algorithms.)

You realize that there are some cubers that are in the same position as you? (in the sub-20). How fast are you? (average)

recently? 30-32ish.

 

[koreancuber]

Bigbee99: Wanna join my thread?

Nah, im not even sub 30 yet, (no time to learn new algorithms.)

You realize that there are some cubers that are in the same position as you? (in the sub-20). How fast are you? (average)

recently? 30-32ish.

Your fine.

 

[Luigimamo]

I'm in,

22.782, 33.156, 29.140, 23.656, 25.796, 30.609, 21.219, 31.672, 29.657, 28.031, 24.437, 24.625 = 27.065

 

[iChanZer0]

What the heck
Week 2
Times:29.42, 22.35, 21.36, 27.10, 25.21, 23.32, 18.58, 29.44, 29.49, 24.75, 21.18, 27.65
Average:25.18
The scrambles were pretty easy.

 

[Zane_C]

I haven't seen this thread until 5 minutes ago, I laughed, isn't sub 15 and 20 enough?

 

[Faz]

I haven't seen this thread until 5 minutes ago, I laughed, isn't sub 15 and 20 enough?

and 30, and 10.

 

[Zane_C]

Arrg, that's even worse.

 

[TheMachanga]

I haven't seen this thread until 5 minutes ago, I laughed, isn't sub 15 and 20 enough?

and 30, and 10.

And 2 (BLD)

 

[Zane_C]

There's BLD too, I just looked for it and couldn't find it.