Rare Happenings Thread

[Luke8]

This thread is for rare, rare, happening. And not just PLL skips, or another method rarity, but extremely rare happenings. For example, one time about a month ago, I got a CFOP Last Layer Skip, which is an OLL and PLL skip at the same solve. An OLL skip has a 1/216 chance of happening, while a PLL skip is a 1/72 chance. The equation for finding out the probability of this is:
216*72=x, x=15,552.
Wow! A one in 15,552 chance!
The truly amazing thing about this is the next morning, the EXACT same thing happened. That was extremely rare! Wether you believe me or not, the point of this thread is as follows: post rare happenings related to cubing. Good luck!

Note that Last Layer Skips are not the only thing you can post here, anything is welcome!

 

[SolveThatCube]

It's called a Last Layer skip.

 

[FJT97]

ll skips are kinda rare, but not that uncommon. And i use zz so ll skips are way more likely

 

[FastCubeMaster]

Pfft, my first last layer skip was on a shengshou 6x6.
Have about 4-5 of em now

 

[AlphaSheep]

I've lost count of my LL skips. I think it's around 20 or so, but with ZZ it's 8 times more likely than in CFOP.

I've had 4 LL skips in official competitions -one in 3x3 in the first round of my very first competition, 2 in 4x4 (which is twice as rare because of parity), and one in 5x5.

In total I've probably had more than 100 if I include partially forced ones like easy WV cases that lead to a skip, or cases where I deliberately changed my insertion to try preserve a block.

 

[SolveThatCube]

Pfft, my first last layer skip was on a shengshou 6x6.
Have about 4-5 of em now

I've lost count of my LL skips. I think it's around 20 or so, but with ZZ it's 8 times more likely than in CFOP.

I've had 4 LL skips in official competitions -one in 3x3 in the first round of my very first competition, 2 in 4x4 (which is twice as rare because of parity), and one in 5x5.

In total I've probably had more than 100 if I include partially forced ones like easy WV cases that lead to a skip, or cases where I deliberately changed my insertion to try preserve a block.

$%#&! You guys are lucky! I can only recall having 1!

 

[Ksh13]

$%#&! You guys are lucky! I can only recall having 1!

No, it's actually you being unlucky, only one LL skip in over 3 years of cubing is very unlucky.

Personally I've been cubing for 1.5 years and I guess I have gotten like 8-10 maybe, including handscrambles.

 

[DELToS]

I've done probably tens of thousands of solves in the past nearly 4 years (CFOP), but not a single LL skip on anything other than 2x2 :/

 

[FJT97]

I've had 4 LL skips in official competitions
QUOTE]

Whut? Never had one official :/

 

[pinser]

ll skips are kinda rare, but not that uncommon. And i use zz so ll skips are way more likely

I've lost count of my LL skips. I think it's around 20 or so, but with ZZ it's 8 times more likely than in CFOP.

I've had 4 LL skips in official competitions -one in 3x3 in the first round of my very first competition, 2 in 4x4 (which is twice as rare because of parity), and one in 5x5.

In total I've probably had more than 100 if I include partially forced ones like easy WV cases that lead to a skip, or cases where I deliberately changed my insertion to try preserve a block.

ZZ ftw!

Yep I've had quite a few LL skips, probably 20+, but most of those came from when I used WV.
Now, I only use WV for like the 3ish easiest cases, so LL are not as common, but EPLL skips are super common

 

[FJT97]

ZZ ftw!
...
but EPLL skips are super common

ZBLL ftw!

 

[asacuber]

I got like 4-5 ll skips in the same month

 

[CornerCutter]

I've had 2-5 skips. I really depends on how much and how long you have been cubing.

 

[Rcuber123]

I had one in 333 one in OH and 1 in FMC

 

[GenTheSnail]

I've been cubing for almost 2 years now and have only had 1 LL skip before. I was hand-scrambling while at a restaurant summer of 2016. My F2L sucked and got something like 16 seconds, which was about my average back then.
Also I use ZZ so LL skips are more likely.

Another rare happening: I was doing OH last night and got this case, but in LB, without any of my right blocks solved yet. Then my LL was this case, a 2GLL that I know.
I knew that the F2L case was a bad one and I should look up or ask what the 'best' alg would be.
My next solve had the same F2L case and LL, though I believe that part of my Right Block had been solved.
They were not identical LSLL, but very similar.

 

[DGCubes]

I've had two in the past couple weeks doing OH, which I use ZZ for. With CFOP, I've probably only had like 2 or 3.

My first last layer skip was on an untimed hand-scramble though.

 

[Ordway Persyn]

The only Last layer skip I remember was a solve on 5x5 some long time ago, I could've had a LL skip when I was averaging ~2 minutes (I vaguely remember it).

 

[TDM]

10+, including 2 on cam.

 

[Mastermind2368]

I have loads of LL skips using ZZ and all. I also have even more PLL skips with forced OLL skips.

Fun fact: My first LL skip was my first solve on this timer and I was using CFOP http://cubingtime.com/

 

[WACWCA]

Did VHLS in comp and got LL skip, 9.29 which tied on at the time, now probably would be low 7 official because bad f2l